Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Tips from Tish - Ratatouille

Ratatouille the Tish Way

This is not a traditional recipe - or perhaps it is - that people put together what was seasonal and what they had.

Dice eggplant - (the size of dice)
Brunoise (small dice) sweet peppers - hot peppers are optional
Thinly slice an onion.

I don’t like to cook fresh tomatoes - there are never enough to be “left over”. SO
add some tomato something:
that last bit of spaghetti sauce
1/2 cup V-8
some diluted tomato paste
minced sun dried tomato
etc. - you get the idea

Add seasonings with a light hand. Particularly our fresh veggies have wonderful flavor and you don’t want to over power them

I have to have: garlic, thyme, salt and pepper. If you use basil, save some for adding after cooking

Microwaves cook vegetables superbly. I have a vegetable setting and it cooks everything perfectly. If not, I would try 3 minutes, stir, 3 minutes more.

It can be baked in the oven at 350, for 30 minutes, but that gets the kitchen hot. If you have the oven on for something else, that would be the way to go.

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