Baba Ganoush & Greek Salad

Day 133

So, Thursday was a most depressing day and I wasn't even close to being in a blogging mood. We ordered the Mediterranean Pizza from Pizza Delight, in case you were wondering. Friday was another shitty day and I also wasn't home most of the evening. I ate a peanut butter sandwich for supper. Not very blog-worthy, is it?

Today is a better day. My boy got a job and I got some things done. And, Laura made baba ganoush. Well, she made it last night, but we didn't eat it until today.

Baba Ganoush & Greek Salad

Baba Ganoush

Baba Ganoush is a lot like hummus, but with a slightly different, slightly smoky taste and a much different (creamier) texture. It's made with eggplant instead of chick peas, but like hummus, it has parsley, garlic, tahini, lemon, olive oil and yoghurt.

Here is the baba ganoush recipe she used, but, rather than the three medium eggplants it called for she only used one because it was a nice big one, about 2 lbs, and she also used more lemon juice.

Baba Ganoush

Homemade Pitas

I'm sorry, but the pitas from the grocery stores tend to be super dried out, even from the minute you buy them. Fold them in half and they crack. So, Laura makes our pitas. They take a little time and effort, but she thinks it's worth it and I really appreciate her effort. They're sooo good. They're not only soft and pliable but they're tastier.

Homemade pitas

Greek Salad

What would complement baba ganoush better than a nice, fresh Greek salad? Laura made a wonderfully tangy Greek dressing for it. I could drink it right out of the bottle. The recipe is posted below.

Greek Salad Ingredients

1 head of Romaine lettuce
1 tomato
1 English cucumber
3 small red onions
1/2 block feta cheese
1/2 bottle sliced Kalamata olives

Greek Salad

Greek Dressing

We have these awesome salad dressing bottles that show you the recipe right on the bottle and Laura used it for today's dressing. In case you can't read it, you add the following to the bottle:

1 tbsp parsley
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp minced garlic
1/8 cup blue cheese (we skipped it)
1/8 cup feta cheese (we doubled it)

Greek dressing

The above ingredients fill the bottle to the first line. Then you add EVOO until you reach the next line, red wine vinegar until you reach the following line and lemon juice until it's filled to the line at the top.

The dressing in the pic above has obviously settled since the ingredients are of all different weights. We have to shake well and use it quickly. It's also half gone as you can see. Here's a pic we took earlier.

Greek dressing

Baba ganoush & Greek salad

Reviews/Comments

We had this for lunch and supper and it was amazing. I give it a 10. Laura too. So healthy and fresh. Probably added an extra day to our lives...hahaha