Aubergine Inspired by a picture on Emily’s
I adore Emily’s Rocky Road of Love – I love the way she writes her recipes, with so much care and passion. Emily’s recipes are inspiring and I have picked a bunch of tidbits from her cooking style. The absolute hit was of course Ratatouille, a dish I have been wanting to try ever since I learnt that there’s more than rats to Disney’s Ratatouille.
I faithfully (almost) followed her brilliant recipe, to cook up a delicious pot of Ratatouille. I omitted zuchinni, used the microwave to parboil and sweat veggies and used dry thyme and oregano since fresh ones weren’t available. It’s delight to cook Ratatouille, its one of those perfectly adorable dishes that one can stand over for long and drown in the mesmerising aroma. The most delightful bit is to watch the vegetables cook together – the purple of aubergine with the green and red of peppers and tomatoes – its unbelievably fascinating. Ratatouille would perhaps be best described as a great mood elevator for someone who loves to cook.
Emily, thanks for the wonderful measures that gave this dish such a lovely balance of flavours. I love your recipe and will be cooking this really often.
Ratatouille in my beloved cooking pot
A Closer look
Bharathy thanks for your tips on the problem of “too much light relecting”, I shall cover my glass top table while taking snaps in future :D. Since I took this earlier this week, I will use your tips from the next time onwards.
I made this for breakfast and served it with Dosa (dosas and rotis are like almost perennial in our house). It was super yummy – a good alternative to Sambar.
Dosa with Ratatouille
Do go over to Emily’s for this brilliant recipe.
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Thank you so much! What a lovely tribute! And your ratatouille looks great.I also love the idea of serving it for breakfast. I want to learn to make dosas, and now I can, thanks to Latha’s clear, step-by-step instructions on The ‘yum’ blog. Emily
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You too made this! I have seen this on some of the other blogs recently.
I have never tried this ‘cos I’m not too fond of eggplant & whenever I’ve used it, the dish has always ended up looking like a big pile of mush :-(.
You served it with dosas. Fusion at it’s best!:-)
I just got ur e-mail…dear Latha,
it is no problem at all! You are the one who has to do so much work for the event 🙂
Thank you for organizing the whole thing:-). I have sent everything including pic again. Please check spam again 😉
excellent looking dish…
actually seeing the influx of this recipe on blogs i wanted to make this.. looks so nice.. but me hating brinjals, my husband hating peppers and overcooked zuchhini… all i hope is when someone invites us for lunch they make this (without brinjals!)
I know this is probably getting tired but everytime I see a recipe with eggplant, I cannot help commenting how much my mom would love it. The woman is crazy about brinjals!
This looks nice.The herbs have given a totally new dimension to the dish 🙂
Something new with known veggies latha. Viji
WoW! this is superb. Very simple and looks easy. I am planning this dish for dinner tonite. Thanks, Latha.
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