i am always buying eggplant...i just can't help myself...i just LOVE EGGPLANT...
yesterday i decided to make an eggplant lasagne...just kind of using what was around the kitchen...so i sliced up the eggplant and floured it....
look who was helping... i was going to try and clean up the picture but decided to give it to you Full Throttle...just as it is... messy couch, piles of pillows for Teddy, newspaper, Teddy's owl upside down feet straight up...see the mess in the back on the window seat....somebody likes to get into mommy's purse and bags from shopping...the big old giant bag of Purina is for shaking out the kitchen door to the strays that come...we are about up to 5 now... they come and go...but Pixie Rose Marie and Vera Wang are a constant...
dug around the cheese box and scored a big block of gruyere...and a few other scraps...
i just floured the slices and sauteed them in my cast iron skillet ....i used olive oil...to reduce the guilt factor of all that oil.....
i didn't make the pasta this go around...didn't feel like cleaning all of that up...and i just layered it in a pie plate....
pasta, eggplant, a jar of Muir Glen sauce...how lazy is that...a jar of sauce..in my EMERGENCY section of the pantry...for just such occassions...my friend Molly calls it "DOGOMAR"....."don't go to the market"...you know those days when you just feel like staying home...making supper from what's in the pantry and fridge...
i'm gonna tell ya...if you like eggplant...this is for you. it is GOOD.
what a beauty....
since we are in the kitchen...i'll show you what's on the drainboard...SPRING.
here is my windowsill...MEZE is a new neighborhood restaurant around the corner we are dying to try... you can see my reflection in the window... you can even see the birdbath way out back in the garden through the open french door....and the window clingers...what can i say...that section in Michaels with all the seasonal window clingers makes me so HAPPY...
the darling little creamer is from my dear friend julie of julie whitmore pottery on ETSY. i have a big bouquet of baby white carnations on my piano...snuck a few out and added some pineapple sage from my garden...i get such an old fashion off of baby carnations...white or soft pink or yellow...gives me a valentines feeling...of days gone by....
there he is again...sunning himself in his favorite spot. WHISKEY SOUR is loving that sun. i snapped that this morning...
we had a COLD SNAP yesterday..it went down to 75 degrees...heat wave is back today..80 degrees...what is going on? it's January !!!! sending love, my friends.....Eggplant Lasagne
Slice an eggplant , flour the slices and saute in olive oil till brown. salt lightly
Boil some lasagne noodles, rinse and drain
Layer pasta, red sauce, cheese and eggplant till everything is used up...in just used the cheese i had on hand...some gruyere and mozzarella...your regular lasagne type cheeses
Bake at 375 for about 40 to 45 minutes or till hot and bubbly
Let settle a few minutes before cutting
Cozy food...even if it is 80 degrees
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