Thursday, December 5, 2024

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Nutcracker and Eggplant Pesto Salad

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date!  Here is my Nutcracker Ornament ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") in acrylic marker.



For the dinner date, I made this eggplant pesto salad based on this Jamie Oliver recipe that I saw on TV.

It uses mint, pistachios and feta cheese to dress the eggplant salad and is quite good, has a refreshing taste, is how I would describe it.  I have a mortar and pestle which comes in handy for this recipe.  I had bought it long ago because Jamie Oliver always used one and I thought it might be good to have.





24 comments:

  1. Must visit our Nutcracker at the Christmas Market, he looks like yours :-)
    Yum with Jamie.

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  2. Lovely nutcracker :-D I do love Eggplant sounds good :-D

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  3. I Love your nutcracker food looks good too

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  4. that nutcracker painting has a strong character

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  5. Awesome Christmas art. This looks like a wonderful Eggplant dish too!

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  6. Delightful! Great Thursday post!

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  7. Awesome art! & a yummy dinner too!

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  8. Nice nutcracker, and that salad looks delicious.

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  9. Your nutcracker is so cute, Christine!

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  10. Eggplant we also call melongene and also bhigan here in T&T
    Nice nutcracker

    Much💚love

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  11. I do like your nutcracker and that salad sounds very tasty.

    All the best Jan

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  12. Christine, your nutcracker is wonderful. And what a tasty looking dish. I have some pesto in the fridge -- might have to give this a try!

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  13. Linda pintura. Gracias por la receta.

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  14. I love eggplant...the salad looks great. I really like your festive nutcracker!!

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  15. Tis the season and your dish looks very appetizing.

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  16. amazing art
    dish looks so tempting omg

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  17. I love your nutcracker and that salad looks delish.

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