Sides

Preheat oven to 500. Wash eggplant and roast whole, turning occasionally, about 45-60 minutes. Cool. Process pulp until smooth, season with salt/pepper. Add oils and process again. Keeps up to 4 days tightly sealed and refrigerated. Serve as appetizer with bread or vegetables.

Main Courses

Preheat oven to 450°F. Cut chicken legs into thighs and drumsticks and pat dry. Halve potatoes. Cut bell pepper into 1/2-inch-wide strips and onion into 1/2-inch-thick wedges.

In a large flameproof roasting pan toss chicken, potatoes, bell pepper, and onion with oil, thyme, and salt and pepper to taste until coated and arrange in one layer, chicken skin side up. Roast chicken and vegetables 30 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and golden.

While chicken and vegetables are roasting, discard any coarse stems from arugula and put arugula in a large bowl.

Main Courses

Mix together chicken broth, oil, vinegar, thyme, salt and pepper. Marinate mushrooms in mixture for 30 min. Mix together mayonnaise, lemon peel, ½ t juice, green onion, salt and pepper. Grill mushrooms. Top with mayonnaise mixture and lettuce. Serve on hamburger buns.

Sides

Cook batches of mushrooms in equal proportions of oil until browned. Add salt/pepper, thyme and parsley. Add garlic to last batch. Mix together and serve warm, or refrigerate up to 2 days.

Appetizers

Make dough:
Cut butter into bits and in a bowl with a pastry blender or in a food processor blend or pulse together with flour and salt until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 2 tablespoons ice water and toss with a fork or pulse until incorporated. Add enough remaining ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork or pulsing to incorporate, to form a dough.

Appetizers

Sautee shallot in butter. Add mushrooms, salt/pepper, cook 5 min. Add cream, boil. Cook until mixture reduces. Add 1 T truffle paste, cool. Roll out a square of puff pastry, brush with beaten egg. Cut out squares and place a spoonful of filling on ½ of them. Cut slits in the unfilled squares. Top filled with unfilled squares, and seal edges. Bake for 15 mins at 400.