Enough oil was found to light the menorah in the temple for a single day, but miraculously it lasted for 8. Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the retaking and rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees. Here's a creative commons picture of a eggplant for sharing purposes, because my photography sucks. I think lemon would be lovely, and I think that's what I'll try next, as we're growing eggplant in our garden this year, so I'll have plenty of experiment-fodder! In fact, LemurBoy complains if I put too much sugar in). The second time, I tried chocolate, with 1/4 cup of cocoa powder, a teaspoon of vanilla, and two teaspoons of sugar (we don't go for super sweet. I had an unlabeled bag of dried fruit that looked like dates. This made Fig Newton Ganoush, with the little crunchy seeds (no, they're not wasp eggs!) and all. The first time I made this, I used dried figs, vanilla, and cinnamon. This makes about 4 servings, depending on how big a serving you like and how big your eggplant was. Quantities are flexible, and since eggplants aren't all one size, you may need to adjust the proportions to work for you. A bit of vanilla and sweetener would probably be fine. I tasted the base eggplant/almond butter mixture, and it didn't have a particularly strong flavor. Probably processed first, before adding the rest of the ingredients, to get them as finely processed as possible.) I plan to try this with the skins included. (The skins are more bitter, but also contain a lot of the nutritional value. If it's too runny, add a little more of whatever butter you're using, or some other drier ingredient. Process with the other ingredients until you have the taste and consistency you want. Once it's roasted and cooled as much as you think is necessary, scrape the flesh out into a food processor. I'm told it's better to err on the side of overcooking. You want it so that the flesh (not the skin) can be poked through without significant resistance. Stick in the oven for 15-25 minutes or so - the exact timing is going to depend on the size of the eggplant. Put the halves cut side down on a baking tray liked with foil or parchment (if you desire). Slice the eggplant in half lengthwise, rub it with oil (coconut is a good option, both for flavor and high smoke point). I'm out to change that, because my intuition was right - eggplant makes a really nice, rich, fluffy, mousse-like dessert that has the kids gobbling their veggies without complaint.ġ/2 cup nut/seed/whatever butter (tahini is traditional, I used almond butter)įirst, roast the eggplant. A mention that sometimes baba ganoush has a touch of sugar in it. Some kind of chocolate lasagna-like concoction. Looking around online, there is a bit of a dearth of eggplant dessert recipes. That was 8 years ago, and I never bothered to get an eggplant to try it with.Ī few weeks ago, our Bountiful Basket contained an eggplant, and I decided it was time to give it a try. Silky, fluffy, and takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it with. The first time I tried baba ganoush, I thought the texture would be wonderful for a dessert. Sweet Baba Ganoush! It sounds like an exclamation, doesn't it?
So, it's a good thing I procrastinated and didn't already make up weekly schedule complete with reserved books, right? So I'll assign him all that historical fiction I loved (we have very similar taste in books, and I have little doubt he'll love it, too), and maybe SOTW4 as independent reading, and we'll concentrate on Ancients as a family. This makes life so much easier, as I can assign him reading and not have to read it to him myself. He's also recently reached critical mass in reading, going from barely at grade level with minimal voluntary reading to reading 6th grade level novels in a few hours. However, LB has developed a fascination with myths, and is open to starting over with Ancients. And Modern History has most of my favorite historical fiction, so I have a hard time passing that up. She's no huge history fan at the moment, while LB is. I'd pretty much decided to start LG next year. Do I just have them do two separate tracks? Do I have LB skip Modern and start over at Ancients? Or do I wait to formally start LG until next year, when she's in second grade? LemurBoy is in 4th (Modern History, by the WTM cycle), while LemurGirl is in 1st (Ancients). This is the year I've been trying to figure out for years. While I *can* go sort out a week-by-week schedule with all our readings and then go through the library catalog and reserve everything in advance, I can also do that week by week. In many ways, there isn't all that much I need to do. Now that it's August, I'm starting to think about planning for the upcoming school year.
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