eggplants

A Hindi animated comedy sketch featuring a character called Doctor Eggplant who 'treats' vegetables with humorous remedies is drawing big audiences online. The short cartoon, billed as family entertainment, mixes slapstick hospital gags with talking vegetables and has racked up millions of engagements, making it one of the more popular animated comedy clips circulating in India at the moment.

A gardener reports harvesting peppers, beans, and eggplants well into mid-October, with frost expected later in the week likely ending the beans while peppers and eggplants can be protected with covers. They are also deciding which plants to bring indoors to overwinter and note fall mushrooms are thriving in the garden.

A playful food and nature photograph of an eggplant, nicknamed 'Fried Egg-plan', is being shared online and drawing attention for its uncanny resemblance to a fried egg. Viewers are enjoying the unusual find, which mixes humour with amateur photography and highlights how everyday produce can produce surprising natural patterns.

A rural cooking channel in Nepal is showing how to prepare a pork and vegetable meal with rice in a traditional village kitchen, featuring eggplant (baigun) and okra (chiple bhenta) recipes. Viewers have responded strongly, with tens of thousands of likes, as the rustic outdoor cooking style continues to draw a wide international audience.

A photograph of fried eggplant is making the rounds, tagged under food, nature and photography. It is a lighthearted food image, with the caption playing on the resemblance between fried eggplant and a fried egg. Reactions are small so far but the dish is drawing amused attention from food and photography enthusiasts.

A Hindi-language animated comedy featuring 'Doctor Bangan', an eggplant character who hilariously treats vegetables as patients, is drawing massive audiences in India. The short cartoon clips have racked up millions of likes, with viewers sharing the vegetable-doctor gags widely as lighthearted family entertainment.

A mathematician has recounted that none of her male colleagues joined a work lunch, leaving the women to spend the whole break exchanging eggplant recipes, which she joked should not be read into. She added that the moment left her humming Mashrou' Leila's song Raksit Leila, whose title and refrain play on the same aubergine-themed double meaning.

A new recipe combines two Italian-American favorites into one dish: eggplant parmesan served as a pizza. The dish layers breaded eggplant, marinara sauce and melted cheese over a pizza crust, offering a vegetarian twist on the classic pie. Home cooks searching for hearty meatless dinner ideas are picking up the recipe and sharing variations.