eggplants !

I like fried eggplant with shrimp paste, squeezed with lemon or "calamansi" and some chillies.

I just remembered that I have eggplants growing. At least I hope I do. I haven't checked my garden in a week because of the massive amount of rain we've been getting. This is the first day we've had sunshine in a week so I really need to get out there and see if I have any eggplants growing. They weren't before this rain, probably because we were in a semi-drought area. Hopefully the rain has helped the plants to produce some eggplants. I planted the large purple ones, purple with white markings, white with purple markings and pure white eggplants. I thought they'd look really pretty together, at least before they're cooked. Your favorite sounds like something I'd love to make, the thinly sliced and fried dipped in soy sauce with lemon. That really sounds yummy! The only things I've ever done before with eggplants was to slice them, fry them and add tomato sauce and parmesan cheese and the other way is cut them into cubes and add them to tomatoes for stewed tomatoes and eggplants. (I just use garlic and onion for a little flavor.) Now I have to go outside and see if I have any little eggplants growing. If not, I'm going to have to go to the grocery store and buy some because this discussion has made me hungry, too.

i always love this "tortang talong" where eggplant is being half-cooked with charcoal before frying it with beaten eggs, tomatoes and onions. now, i have a lot of ideas for the next occasion we will have with all those great tasting foods you mentioned for the last two days with your discussions.

I love eggplant ! I make a wonderful appetizer with it, I like moussaka, I fry it to pyu some color to a dish. I have nevet had it with soy sauce and lemon, but I will try it.

Here in the UK we call the 'egg plant'an 'aubergine@. I use it in things like ratatouille, vegetable curries and moussaka and also like it sliced and cooked on the barbecue.

I love eggplants We don't eat them often but I think they taste nice. I like them best when mixed with potatoes and some tomatoes and stuffs yumm!! Mom makes them lovely hehe!!

oh just this morning i had an eggplant pasta! it sure was good. its like an eggplant in the lasagna.

I also like eggplants very much. And here we have lots of ways to cook eggplants. It can be cooked just with spring onion,garlic and oil. Well, i have found that when you cook eggplant, you 'd better add some garlic into it. And it tastes good when being added into fish. It can also been cooked with potatoes. It can also been salted and eaten when you are having gruel.

Hello, I grew eggplant last year in my garden and found it was really easy to grow. I tried to fry the eggplant with breadcrumbs but thought it tasted awful. I cooked them plain with some butter but I didn't like the eggplant that way either. I think eggplant is a required taste, you either love them or hate them. I'm leaning toward the latter.

This topic make me hungry, to think that I had lunch just a few minutes ago. Yes, eggplant is simple and yet those chefs can really turn something spectacular about this vegetable. All my life, I'm used to tortang talong, talong in the nilagang karne, grilled etc and eggplant still eggplant. My opinion changed when I chanced upon a dish whose name I can't recall since it's sounds Japanese and I wasn't aware that it's main ingredient is eggplant except that there's a hint of peanut in it and the bite that eggplant has was gone and boy, that's one hell of a dish that I can't forget about that dish up to this moment to think that it's almost a year or two that I first tasted it and the store that sell it has closed down already.

Wow, you're making me hungry, simplyd. I love broiled eggplant where you remove the skin, mash it and mix with avocado, onions, raisins and beaten eggs. Season with oyster sauce and a lot of red cayenne pepper. Fry it with a little butter and corn oil. Yum!

I could live with only eggplant and rice. My husband thought i was kidding. Every time he would ask me what i wanted for dinner, i would usually say eggplant. I'd rather have fried eggplant dipped in soysauce than pork or beef.

Hi Simplyd...I have never been a big fan of eggplant until one night my wife had a bunch of them in a fire, and I said what are you doing. She said I'm making eggplant. Well...I have never seen it made like this before. She then took them off the fire and peeled and squished them flat, put them in egg and other spices and fried them. Well needless to say, I am now a big fan off eggplant. They were terrific! I ate four of them. Oh now I too am hungry. Maybe I'll drop some hints for my wife to make eggplant tonight. mmmmmmmmmm.

Oh yes! I love eggplants especially when it's "torta", how to say that in English? Oh I think I'm gonna cook it this lunch! ;)

Isn't it called omelet? as in eggplant omelet lols....thats one of my faves too, its delicious also to be in "kare-kare" (beef with peanut butter) ahaha