Grilled Eggplant and Summer Squash

Joel looked at the contents of our CSA box and demanded that he get the eggplant and summer squash. Why, I asked. Apparently he heard The Splendid Table over the weekend, and one of the recipes was a marinade for vegetables. The one that appealed to him was fairly simple: olive oil, lime juice, cumin, garlic, and salt into the blender, whirl until it is a paste, and toss with vegetables that have been cut into 1/2" slices. Marinade for at least 1/2 an hour, and then grill until tender. he had been thinking about this ever since he heard the show, and so felt he needed to make them to get them out of his head. I love it when we grill on exceptionally hot says because it makes the kitchen so much more pleasant for clean up (and so much less of that to do as well). The end product is not much to look at but they were absolutely wonderful. These vegetables can be bland as can be, or sublime--they have very little in the way of innate flavor, but they are flavor sponges, sopping up whatever you put on them. The recipe will be repeated later this week!