to wholeheartedly love and adore slices of aubergine charred/fried in a small amount of olive oil on a griddle pan?

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

Or is that painfully middle class of me?

No one else in my family likes this, so I have to do it specially for me and me alone. Bit of a pita.

Complete and utter first world problem.

Yes, off with you to your own courgette/aubergine clique!

This thread is for aubergine people only.

hope not elephant ill have to keep that a secret from husband then hes a so called social smoker, yes so social he does it in hiding in our garage. ive told him it must stop before baby arrives or hes not holding it, stench in his beard and clothes lol

Ha! is that true? am hopeless nicotine addict.

I'm not sure about the painfully middle class bit, to be honest, but otherwise YANBU.

I do prefer an aubergine with the skin completely charred (I just sit it on a gas ring) and collapsed inside. Mix with lemon juice, garlic and olive oil and eat with homemade pitta breads.

allalonenow sounds similar to way I do it, many cultures share similar recipes ;) Thai and Japanese do tempura veg too its lovely.

you guys had aubergine borta not crunchy I love it though has roasted taste. version I make has no tomatoes, just fresh chillies, finely sliced onion, bit salt, and the roasted deskinned mashed aubergine, serve with rice or chapatti nan whatever you fancy. heaven. husband doesn't like it, more for me!

roast over a the gas hob with skewer or fork prodded in, tastes really good charred like that. in oven just not the same taste. in restaurants I think they use the tandoor oven, ive not gone one...:(

Anyone else tried aubergine pakora? Delish!

Ooh nicotine eh? Does it work if you eat it though, or do you have to smoke it?

I love aubergine, we do it on the BBQ in summer. Also asparagus on the BBQ. I sometimes griddle aubergine but it tends to come out during BBQ season.

I love "Mediterranean" style veg.

Ah you gotta eat 20 pounds before you get as much nicotine as 1 fag

Still it's free on slimming world they tell me...

But then so are fags...

Yanbu, when I make aubergine parmiagane I always have to buy extra aubergine as i eat too much of it while I'm griddling the next slices!
So versatile, delicious

Whenever I try to do this I use a tiny bit of oil and it still ends up greasy and floppy - why?!

I do like it in a lasagne though but it's a step too far for dh who says he's already being made to have vegetarian mince so if I remove his pasta then it's essentially not lasagne at all but he's wrong

Mmmmmm. Roasted aubergine and feta

"A small amount of olive oil"

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Yes, small amount of olive oil - who am I kidding?

It's like eating slime

Jamie Oliver does a nice easy sicilian aubergine stew (easily found on Google) with capers - although I've improved it by missing out the olives and adding chunks of halloumi - just adding aubergines to shopping list as I type.

aubergine - 1 of 3 foods that make me heave....squeaky little f-ers, No 2 avocado, greasy little f-ers & No 3 marzipan, gritty little f-ers ..... I havee had a few bad potty mouth

Or Baba Ghanoush, although I make it without the tahinias it's not truly baba Ghanoush.
Try it with goats cheese

It's It's a vegetable it doesn't make you a certain class ffs.

YABU. Aubergines belong in moussakas.

Dear god I've tried. Tried so bloody hard.

But I cannot make decent aubergine.

I'm a vegetarian for fucks sake.

Help.

YABU because aubergines is the food of the devil and baba ganoush smells of ashtrays.

I think if I went on Saturday kitchen, aubergines would be my food heaven. Even though I'm a committed carnivore!

My favourite aubergine dish is a Chinese recipe: fish fragrant aubergines. You shallow fry them, and add Chinese seasonings (rice wine, black vinegar, Sichuan pepper, garlic, other lovely things none of which are fishy despite the recipe name) and spring onion. The result is melt in your mouth squishy aubergine in a delicious sauce. I made myself nearly sick gorging on it last time I made it, I ate enough for 4 people...

Oooh Stop it gently, please! That sounds like a recipe I saw on Gok Wan's Channel 4 programme. Are you sure it doesn't have a little splash of fish sauce in it?

What is this aubergine in lasagne nonsense?! Make a proper moussaka!