The food processor is your friend!

Eggplant Caviar.

It's cooling in the fridge right now. I added garlic, of course. And I made it with three eggplants, tripling the recipe.

The food processor gave me a really fine mince of the onion with minimal effort; cut onion in quarters or sixths, toss in processor, pulse till fine.

It took me 25 minutes broiling time, and could probably have used another five. However, the food processor came to the rescue again; the scraped out eggplant was stringy, so I plopped it into the food processor as well rather than trying to stir it to break it down. I added the oil, dill weed (dried) and salt. We don't use pepper much; it upsets K's digestion.

I also knocked together Hummus from a Fantastic Foods box mix. However, I think that next time I may try fresh ingredients and the food processor for that as well -- I noticed an unopened jar of tahini in the kitchen today. Okay, fresh except for the chickpeas/garbonzos -- I'll either have to reconstitute them from dried or use canned ones, as they aren't a fresh option.