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From the Emotional Cookbook: Baba Ghanouj of Optimism Served on the Chapatis of Inadequacy

(recipes taken from the Peace Corps cookbook, which is awesome).

Boil an eggplant into submission, then mash into a pulp while thinking of the children who yell 'give me money' when you pass.



Add some amount of salt that you think may be around a teaspoon.  Add the juice of however many lemons you happen to have around and as much garlic as possible.   If you have such a thing, add tahini paste, otherwise peanut butter is just ducky.  Mix until it looks and tastes the way you like your baba ghanouj, which is a personal matter.


Prepare the chapati.  Mix together flour, oil, and water with a little bit of salt, until it is a rollable dough, which you should roll into circles.

This is better with white flour, but I was out.

some people have actual rolling pins.  

spread oil over the top, roll up into little balls and then out into flat circles again.  Fry in butter substitute.

My frying skills are terrible.
 Spoon large amounts of baba ghanouj onto the chapatis.  Eat piggishly.

2 comments:

  1. Hmm.. sound yummy ...good..
    looks can be so deceiving ;-)!

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  2. Food is only a sometime emotional thing with me - more often at breakfast than any other time. That is why it is important to eat breakfast every day - so you can get your daily supply of emotion. Without breakfast I would be autistic.

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