Category: test recipes

Eggplant Spinach Rollatini

Eggplant Spinach Rollatini

This is another test recipe for the Post Punk Kitchen’s forthcoming cookbook, Veganomicon. Her first book, Vegan with a Vengeance, is my all-time favorite cookbook. I can tell you honestly that this one will be every bit as useful, dependable, and amazing as the first. I swear they’re not paying me to promote the books. They’re just all so great!

Eggplant Spinach Rollatini, pre-bakeThis recipe, man, I can’t even tell you how much I liked it. It’s basically breaded, fried eggplant, stuffed with tastiness and tofu ricotta, then smothered with a delicious marinara sauce. I’d buy the cookbook for this recipe alone.

I know there are a lot of people who dislike eggplant, but I wonder how many of them have tried it fried or baked with olive oil. Eggplant really takse on a different character when cooked this way – it’s really quite divine. It’s buttery, soft, almost creamy, but it does take a lot of oil to get it that way. I think it’s worth it.

I’ve been making some other test recipes that I haven’t told you about yet. Here is a dessert and a quick bread:

Tea Poached Pears
Tea Poached Pears in Chocolate Sauce

Whole Wheat Soda Bread with Millet and Currants
Whole Wheat Soda Bread with Millet and Currants

Appetizers

Roasted Chestnut and Lentil Pate on Crostini

I love appetizers. They’re so small, pretty and fun to eat. Every once in a while I like to make a meal out of them as a change of pace. I won’t be able to share the recipes for some of these, as I have sworn allegiance to The Post Punk Kitchen and am helping them test recipes for their third cookbook. I have to keep quiet. Secret recipes! How exciting!

The photo you heading up this entry is one such recipe; Chestnut Lentil Pate. What I can tell you about it is that it was my first time roasting chestnuts, and it was worth the two that exploded in my oven. They’re so much sweeter than I had imagined! How is it that I had never tried chestnuts before?

Four more appetizers after the jump! Continue reading