How to char-grill eggplant

Eggplants can be char-grilled on a barbecue grill or in a ridged grill pan.

Eggplants can be char-grilled on a barbecue grill or in a ridged grill pan.

Though it seems just like yesterday, it was in fact 40 years ago that I spent a week walking the hills of Crete.
A striking memory is the aromatic scents that rose all around us as we crushed wild thyme and oregano underfoot. The oregano was ‘rigani’, origanum vulgare (hirtum). Bit of a gob-full, I suppose, but the last name (hirtum) is pretty important.

I might just have to suck this one up … yep, the old wive’s trick works.

Creamy pale green and white beans, pretty as a picture, luscious to eat

Custard and cream. Oh yeah, who doesn’t love that!

Turkey timers? Nah. Wiggle the legs, poke in the skewer… Juices clear? Good to go.

It’s not a pasta, it’s a squash!
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