Ayale-com.804 net.cooks utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!yale-com!harley Sat Feb 6 20:34:54 1982 pasta my favorite pasta dish is saute'd in garlic. cut a bunch of garlic cloves in half & toss them into a wok with 1/4 cup of olive oil. at medium-high heat, add spaghetti (cooked or fresh), maybe a pound (two fresh). stir continuously until garlic is a little brown & the pasta has stuck together & browned in places (yummy crunchy!) drain the oil & serve with dishes that lean toward oregano, basil, marjoram ... admittedly olive oil isn't the most nutritious food, but the dish is clearly proletarian, & you can breathe on the next technocrat you run into. another garlic delight babba ghanouj (sp?). take some eggplants & poke holes in them with a fork. put them in a 400 degree oven for 45 minutes. remove them, cut them open lengthwise (to cool), making sure to save the liquid that runs off. while they cool, mix maybe 1 part lemon juice & two parts tahini in a big bowl. (there should be about as much of this stuff as eggplant pulp.) add cumin, coriander, a little tamari, gobs of minced garlic, possibly some cayenne. when the eggplant is cool enough to handle, strip the flesh from the skin & mix it into the other stuff, making sure to shred it into fairly small pieces. add some olive oil, like about 1 part to 10 parts of eggplant/tahini/lemon. stir it up (at this point my roommate, & most of you i guess, would use some kind of machine. that's okay if you like pudding & you don't give a damn about post-industrialism) then pour a thin layer of olive oil over the top & stick it in the fridge till it's cold. serve with other middle eastern dishes, or improvise. - steve harley (yale-comix!harley) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.