eggplant day

I've been cooking loads lately! I must be getting into hosting mode for my parents' visit, which starts on Monday.

First up today, a curried ratatouille full of veggie goodness.  The best part was that the recipe talks you through making your own curry spice mix, no curry powder here!

Then I got cooking on Mama Ghanoush. Cool thing is you poke a cinnamon quill into the eggplant before you roast it. Bummer is that I couldn't taste any difference in the end.

Do "standardized" lemons (that we'd see in the West) ever have this many seeds?  The ones on the counter are from the squeezed half only, mind you!

For that matter, I've never seen a lemon outside of Africa with skin so vividly green.

Here, it's just how they come.