Hello. Meet my lunch.
A delectable vegetable sandwich on scrumptious toasted Ezekiel seven grain bread with a smattering of homemade two-day-old guacamole, freshly sliced tomatoes and store bought, hand washed fresh from the fridge romaine lettuce.
My sandwich has a friend I’d like you to meet too.
A mumbo jumbo plate of steamed cauliflower, shredded carrots and zucchini steamed in only the finest tap water this side of the Mississippi, topped with the Parmesaniest cheese this side of Wegmans.
Hey. Kid. Get your fingers out of my food. I’m trying to do introductions here.
Now that you’ve met my friends, let me tell you about my favorite colors, Green and Black. With a bite missing.
Next I need to tell you about a miracle. No, not the PB Cookie Larabar that I snacked on today. (Although it is a miracle I finally found this flavor.) The miracle that is bulk nut butters found at my local food coop. Today’s “Mystery Butter”? Mixed raw and roasted almond butter for 1.99 a pound.
Yes, that’s right. That’s not a typo. A DOLLAR NINETY NINE A POUND. Apparently there are “some people” who only want raw AB or only roasted AB, thus a mix of the two is less desirable. Lucky for me I am not “some people”.
And finally, a recipe to share with you this evening.
Eggplant Parmesean A LA Alison
2 medium eggplants
Salt
Tomato sauce, prepared as desired
Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesan cheese
Step 1: Pre heat oven to 350
Step 2: Slice eggplant into 1/2 in slices. Place on cookie sheet and sprinkle with salt to remove bitterness. Basically, make your eggplant sweat like it just ran around the block.
Step 3: Meanwhile, get started on your sauce if you’re gonna make it yourself. If you’re going to dump it out of a jar, move on to Step 4.
Optional Step 3a: I prefer to make my own sauce, and I start by sauteing onions, garlic and mushrooms in a little EVOO.
Step 4: After about 30 minutes, rinse salted eggplant and bake for about 5 minutes. (You did pre-heat the oven, right?) Flip and bake for another 5 minutes.
If you’re making your own sauce, keep working on it while the egg plant is doing it’s sweating, rinsing and baking thing.
After my mushrooms and onions are soft, I added a can of 15 oz diced tomatoes, a 4 oz can of tomato paste, a little water, dried oregano, basil, S&P.
Step 5: Shred your mozzarella.
In 9 x 13 inch pan, spread a thin *layer of tomato sauce. Top with a layer of eggplant. Sauce. Mozz. Parm. Repeat once more from *.
Ready for the oven.
Ready for my mouth.
And this concludes my strangest post of the week.
i enjoyed the post, pleased to meet your food. that eggplant parm looks great!
In my nightly dreams I meet the elusive *Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar*. Until your pic I wondered if it was real or an urban myth.
WOW! All your food looks great. I love the pic of your little girl about to touch your food… lol
wow you wrote me a nice, long comment! gracias for the congratulations on my race! it was alot of fun- i was completely exhausted at the end though haha. and im glad im so close with my sisters- many of my friends arent as close with theirs but they are my best friends. we do fight alot though- things arent ALWAYS so peachy haha. next time i go home im going to try out my dads juicer (he has this one: http://www.appliancist.com/breville-juicer.jpg). what is your favorite combo so i can try it out and avoid the “greeny” taste? what kind of headband did you find?! i really want to look into relaxing treatments or something but im really nervous to haha and thanks for your kind words regarding finding “the one”- makes me feel better- it really does
oh and that “eggplant parm” looks great. ive been thinking of preparing eggplant like this sometime this week actually. and this just makes me want to make that even more ๐ have a great night alison!
i just realized that the link doesnt work- its a breville juicer if you were at all interested ahha
nice to meet your favorite colors! lol. Well, green + black = black, I suppose, in the form of chocolate!
LOVE the eggplant parm with all that cheese action!
Seriously, when are you going to cook for me?!
It was very nice to meet all your food! ๐ Your eggplant Parmesan looks amazing!
Oh, and you reminded me that I still have some unopened, Green & Black’s Dark 85% somewhere… Well, I don’t think it’ll be unopened for long.. Gotta run!
Green & Black Dark Chocolate is amazing!! I loved meeting your sandwich on that amazing plate!! I kind of wanted to eat the plate instead of the sandwich!
Green and Black dark chocolate? Ok, what am I missing?? LOL!
Thanks so much for sharing that recipe….gonna be making that one for sure. Looks so good!
I love Max’s hat….so precious ๐
GAWD that eggplant Parm..looks GREAT
SO making that this week! I am in the mood for some pasta less pasta Italiano style!
you eat like I eat! my husbands just found MY stash of Green and black for the office and gave me grief over it….where’s MINE?
HA
you’re Giradelli (sp) is in the cupboard….hands OFF my green and Black BRO
(like any good wifey, I left him a bar)
The eggplant looks delish!!! Also, word of the day:
“Parmesaniest.”
Pass it on!
-A
Dang cheap almond butter!! Lucky duck you. And that eggplant dish? Yummmm.
You have such a fun vocabulary in this post. Did you perhaps have too much coffee this morning? Seriously, that eggplant parm looks fab. I just made spaghetti tonight and have lots of leftover sauce. Thanks for the inspiration for tomorrow night’s dinner. Now I know why mine was always mushy. I’ll try the salt sweat.
I just made this for our dinner tonight. Easy. My son enjoyed it so much he had 2 large helpings. Even my daughter who takes awhile to warm to new foods ate a good amount.
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