![]() ![]() Grilling Eggplant: Once pan is re-heated and hot, add prepared eggplant slices in a single layer ( cook in batches if needed). ![]() Tomatoes will likely be done the fastest at about 4 minutes but use your judgment.) Place grilled veggies on a plate, lined with a paper towel and allow to cool slightly. I find it easiest to do the same veggies together. ( Note Vegetables should be almost cooked through, with grill/char marks but not burned, so keep an eye on them. Place the vegetables in a single layer on the hot grill pan (you may have to do this in batches and cook for about 5 to 6 minutes, turning over once midway through cooking time. Place cut veggies on a plate or shallow bowl and drizzle remaining garlic-infused oil over them, gently tossing to coat and seasoning with sea salt. Place a large grill pan over medium-high heat and allow to get hot. Grilling Ratatouille Vegetables: Slice zucchini vertically into 1/2-3/4-inch planks, peel and slice thickly slice onion, stem, seed and slice bell pepper into thick strips (as flat as you can get), and slice Roma tomatoes in half. ![]() Brush both slides of slices generously with olive oil and sprinkle with a bit of salt. Discard any liquid, lightly rinse slices and pat dry-gently pressing any excess water out. Sprinkle both sides of each slice with salt and place in a colander over a plate or bowl and let sit for at least 30 minutes while you grill the other veggies. Make Ahead Prep: Slice eggplant into 3/4-inch slices-you should hopefully get about 8 total. Sun-Dried Tomato & Elderflower Cashew Creme ( recipe below) I was going to add fresh basil but forgot to get some, so I just used thinly-sliced sorrel leaves for a garnish.ġ/2 cup garlic-infused oil ( I used garlic macadamia nut oil) + more as neededġ small bunch baby arugula, lettuce, or other micro green, and/or sorrel or basil leaves ( I used sorrel) + additional sorrel or basil, cut into long thin strips ( chiffonade) for garnish. Since it's summer and grilling in on the mind, I decided to grill the eggplant slices and ratatouille vegetables ( mostly locally-grown) in garlic-infused oil and place it all on a bed of greens -in this case I came across some locally-grown sorrel that I don't come across often and have not used much and I thought its lemony tang would be nice. Liqueur that I am working through, I decided to put it into a sun-dried tomato cashew creme sauce ( a vegan nod to the mousse/foam with the cod), brightened with lemon juice and layer it with stacks of eggplant slices. Since I don't have access to readily available elderflower, and I have a large bottle of the Grilled Eggplant and Ratatouille with Sun- Dried Tomato & Elderflower Cashew Creme There was the ratatouille that was served with the shrimp and sweet and sour sauce, but appeared to be not quite as stewed as a typical ratatouille ( see center photo of collage), and the over-arching theme of Ligurian dishes which seem to be all about fresh and local produce. My inspiration actually is a mashup of several scenes and dishes-it is, I confess, a bit ADHD in nature and also a bit unwieldy to eat, but boy did it end up surprising and delighting me with the taste! So, inspirations-the eggplant and elderflower for sure, the leghorn-style cod-mainly its pinkish-red cloud of mousse-like foam that I decided must have tomato in it since research showed tomatoes to be a key ingredient in the dish, named for Livorno-Leghorn in English, a port city on the Ligurian sea on the Western coast of Tuscany. There was probably much more that I didn't catch in there. Some things I saw and wrote down: a cake, eggplant with elderflower, Leghorn cod, Russian salad ( that seemed to be wrapped and a torch taken to it), small tarts of some sort, luncheon dishes of egg yolk, pea cream and zucchini flowers, prawns with ratatouille and sweet and sour sauce ( apparently orgasmic!), mixed fish with crunchy vegetables, Ukha-a Russian soup with a clear saffron broth (v ery integral to the story and mentioned a few times), a mention of ' Ligurian dishes,' raspberries, lots of fresh vegetables and fruit sitting around, a garden with what looked like berries/currents?, clover, and grapes-or at least grape leaves, coffee drinks and what looked like a box of macarons. It's not always easy to catch the food, or at least the details in the film. ![]()
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