How to lose your Baba Ganouche

"David Hare-Scott" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

We were given a big bag of eggplants (aubergine) from a friend, the only
way
to use them up was to make baba ganouche. I have made this maybe 50
times,
after the first few times it has been pretty good stuff. Never any
problems
before. You start with baking them whole in the oven and when they are
soft
you peel off the skin and pulp the cooked flesh.

So into the oven goes 8 or so eggplants and I put on the time to remind me
to check them. I settled down to watch TV. After about half an hour ...

KABOOM

One of the little buggers had exploded, pulp everywhere. This has *never*
happened before, so why has it happened now, who knows? So now I will
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each one before baking. After I clean the oven.

Geez, what a mess. Oddly, when I've seen people on tv making that,
they cut the eggplant in half lengthwise and bake them on a sheet, face
down. Never saw them baked whole. It's kinda funny, I can picture
eggplant eggplant everywhere, but then, I don't have to clean it up.

(smile) nancy

Far as I can tell said:

they cut the eggplant in half lengthwise and bake them on a sheet, face
down.

They can be baked or broiled face up, coated with spices. Good too...