Endive, Shallot, and Goat Cheese Tart

If you only know endive as a crunchy, leafy, bitter green, then you've been missing out. Roasted, grilled, or sautéed, the wide-leafed vegetable loses much of its trademark bitterness, allowing its sweet, faintly earthy character to emerge at full force. Here, it's combined with shallots and goat cheese for a rich, buttery quiche-like tart.

Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Tartlets

A tart topped with sweet caramelized onions and creamy goat cheese is cut into cocktail-friendly pieces.

Zucchini Tart With Cream Cheese, Mozzarella, and Thyme

Crisp puff pastry topped with tender zucchini and melty cheese.

Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb and Pine Nuts from 'Jerusalem'

As any fan of Yotam Ottolenghi's previous book, Plenty, knows, the man is an expert when it comes to eggplant. In his and his partner Sami Tamimi's new book Jerusalem: A Cookbook, there are copious recipes for eggplant—stuffed, puréed, roasted, baked, and everything in between. In their Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb and Pine Nuts, they fill the silky, humble nightshade with a warmly spiced blend of gamey ground lamb, sweet onions, and a smattering of pine nuts.

Eggplant and Goat Cheese Spirals Recipe | Grilling

Continuing on my rolling trend, I decided to take this method to some vegetables. I saw a photo a couple years ago of grilled eggplant rolled with goat cheese, and it has been in the back of my mind ever...

Sweet Onion and Goat Cheese Tarts with Thyme

Perfect passed at a cocktail party or as a little apéro before dinner, these crisp, flaky tartets are topped with a bird's nest of sweet onions caramelized in brown sugar, fresh leaves of thyme, and a dollop of mellow, tangy chèvre cheese.

Eggplant Parmigiana

Eggplant Parmigiana (Parmigiana di Melanzane in Italian) has layers of eggplant, tomato sauce, basil and cheese, baked until bubbly.

French in a Flash: Easy Awesome Eggplant Tian

This eggplant tian is a refreshing, lighter break from Eggplant Parm, full of sweet balsamic-roast eggplant, oozing mozzarella cheese, and summery-fresh basil.

Tomato Tart With Whipped Ricotta

Top ultra-flaky puff pastry with whipped ricotta and fresh tomatoes for an easy summertime snack or appetizer.

Roasted Eggplant With Tahini, Pine Nuts, and Lentils

This dish of eggplant roasted until caramelized and tender, served over stewed lentils with an extraordinarily light and creamy tahini sauce and crunchy pine nuts, was dinner and lunch for more meals than I care to count a couple of weeks back. Not that I'm complaining: It's extremely good.