Roasted Eggplant

Roast eggplant as you would for baba ganoush. Add fresh tomato and red onion, finely chopped.

Season with fresh garlic, olive oil and salt.

Here is the best part of this recipe, my husband gets the heebie jeebies from the sight of eggplant and I have one kid that baba ganoush is the only thing he eats at the first course, so I roast a case of eggplants at once. Then I put it through the food processor (on pulse because if the seeds are pureed it will be bitter). I put it snack sized zip locks and freeze it. I use one bag for the kids and one for the above recipe. Then it lasts us about 3 months.

Also, when I freeze it, I separate each bag with parchment paper so the bags don't stick together.

Man, I wish I wasn't traveling so I could get you an awesome quinoa salad recipe. But basically I remember that it had black quinoa, chopped avocado, corn kernels, maybe chopped red pepper?, and lemon juice.

No, they're different kinds. You could probably try it with red, though. I don't actually like quinoa (though I like this salad), so I couldn't tell you if it works.

Bob's Red Mill has a lot of interesting salads. I am not big on salads. I am happy to eat the same green salad every day. I've been putting sprouts that I grew on them. It is so cool.

Do you like beans? I have an interesting way to make them that is super duper fast.

I like to make spinach salad.

Fresh spinach leaves
Red wine vinegar
Craisins
Raw pecans (optional)
Tiny bit of raspberry preserves

My husband hates spinach, but he likes this salad.

I'm completely obsessed with argulua, and it's even more amazing if you chop it up before putting it in the salad bowl.

A Shabbos salad that I like (I chop everything up really small, to make this into a kind of fancy Israeli salad - it always get TONS of complements):

Chopped arugula
Chopped parsley
Red bell pepper
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Pomegranate seeds
Sunflower seeds
Dressing: Lemon juice, olive oil


Or, another option:

Chopped arugula
Tomato
Mango
Chopped walnuts
Chopped chicken breast
Dressing: Olive oil, honey mustard, honey, apple cider vinegar


Another salad I make a lot is a bean salad, people LOVE this, though the avocado makes it higher calorie:

2 cans black beans
1 can corn
Red bell pepper
Tomato
Avocado
Scallions, sliced into thin rounds
Dressing: olive oil, chopped garlic, squeezed lime juice, cayenne pepper