The Midnight Gardener

While gardening in the middle of the night Christine experiences true moments of clarity. Sometimes digging her hands into the earth to plant seeds by the light of the moon is the only thing that makes sense in this world.

Christine was hungry from all those late nights, so we took her to Royal India on Griffin Road in Dania, and left her in a spot where she's sure to be found. The Baingan Bhartha here is excellent. It's eggplant barbecued in a Tandoori oven and then mashed and garnished with fresh onion, tomato, peas and herbs. It's kind of pumpkin colored and hot and spicy, in a very good way.

Hopefully , someone will give Christine a good home, maybe right there in the restaurant. We think she'd look real nice right over that fireplace. Hint of the day: If your friend tells you that sag, as in mushroom sag, chicken sag, lamb sag or shrimp sag is actually pronounced "shag," and implies that ordering it otherwise could be embarrassing, don't fall for that.