| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:53:44 PM | Slice and eggplant up and put in a backing dish. Cover with your favorite spaghetti sauce. Bake for 4 hours on 300 degrees. YUM
Great when topped with mozzerella or parmesean too.
We have also added other veggies if we have them around, squash, zuchini, etc. That's great too. | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 3:46:54 PM |
Holy crap....4 hours?
Yep, that's four hours at 300 degrees. It's not a quick meal, but very easy though. Just slice up the eggplant (& maybe other veggies) dump the sauce on and let it cook. It comes out falling apart good. | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 3:47:28 PM | | LOL, was just thinking the same thing.... 4 hours ??? WOW | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 5:55:13 PM | im full sicilian tired of eggplant parm try the same thing with coliflowerand broccilie
better than that veal or chicken
rob | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 6:37:56 PM | | No, thanks! Any food, especially veggies, need to be cooked more than 1 hour I will see it as a waste of resource thus no matter how good it tastes, I will feel guilty afterward. Chinese don't have a wok for no reason. And, who has this time to stay home for this 4 hours? For a working couple in this case, dinner won't be ready until 9:00 p.m.? And weekends, oh we should go out do something it is more fun; by all means it is summer. | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 6:43:17 PM | | try eggplant as a pizza topping ...it is the best | |
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Posted: 7/20/2007 8:46:09 PM | kaycee...who wants to tie up their oven for 4 hours to make something that should maybe take an hour?...tops
doin this one more time in case the late comers missed it the first time...
take one egg plant...(zuchinni will work too)...
if it is a larger piece you might wanna peel the skin off...
slice into 1/4 inch pieces
dredge in flour first...egg/milk...then bread crumbs...
fry in hot olive oil till golden
arrange pieces on a lightly greased baking sheet
if you are a carnivore...lay a slice of good ham on top...if not...omit meat...put a few tbsp of quality spaghetti sauce...(no store bought crap)...cover this with shredded mozza
bake for 1/2 hour or so @ 350 or until the cheese is nice and melty...sprinkle with parmesan and a dusting of paprika and pop under a broiler for 5 minutes or so
eat
now doesnt that sound a whole helluva lot easier and faster?...the eggplant should have some texture to it...at 300 degrees for 4 hours do you serve yours with a spoon or a straw? | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 8:52:07 PM | | Sounds good Kaycee. I'm wondering how it would come out in a crock-pot/slow cooker. I love to throw something in there in the morning and go off for the day and come home to it ready to eat. The slow cooker uses less electricity and doesn't heat the house up during the summer like the oven would. Think I'll try it...thanks for the tip! | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/20/2007 10:12:08 PM | wtf?...4 hours in the oven?...a crock pot?...what the bloody hell are we cooking here???...army boots or a fukkin egg plant???
time for a collective head shake | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/21/2007 2:22:58 AM | ^^^^^^^^^^^
fistncuffs do you need to be so hard on poor kaycee.
Kaycee dearest cook it in anything you wish and however many hours in the oven, I'll be there to eat those yummy eggplants  | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 7:34:10 AM | rk...bring a broom...a mop and a bucket...there is a mess to clean up in here...
kaycee...if you wanna speed up your cooking times...try using a regular oven instead of a kenner E-Z Bake...
and goddess...when you go there to eat that "delightful sounding wallpaper paste"...bring a straw and a spoon...slurp it all up...maybe a piece of bread to wipe the bowl clean too | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/21/2007 1:00:01 PM | I love eggplant egged and breaded but sometimes I want to eat eggplant parm but try and keep it healthy.
I preheat the oven to 400 degrees, cut an eggplant in to 1/4 to 1/2 inch pieces, stack them like fallen dominoes on a baking sheet with a thin coating of non-stick spray, baste them in olive oil that's been heated in a saucepan with cracked garlic; add salt and pepper and put them in the oven for 15-17 minutes, turning them over half way thru.
Then I layer them in a glass baking dish with homemade sauce and on top cover the dish with thin pieces of smoked mozzarella and broil until the cheese browns and melts over the top (maybe 5 minutes). Not fancy but good. I do that with grilled chicken too if I want a quick chicken parm.
Then I cut and eat. If you have sauce already made or leftover from meatballs ( I tend to make a lot of sauce and there's always some left over after the meatballs are gone) it should take maybe a half hour tops. | |
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| Easy yummy eggplant
Posted: 7/21/2007 1:12:02 PM | | You guys have me ready to jump in my car or on my motorcycle to run into town for eggplant. Try this: Next BBQ, brush olive oil with several crushed garlic cloves, some finely chopped basil leaves, salt and pepper to taste on thick slices of eggplant. Grill for about five minutes per side. Top with Parmesian cheese. Yum! Killer side dish! | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 1:41:12 PM | Oh for God's sake!!!! 4 Hours!!! I am 100% Sicilian too and 4 hours is ridiculous... How about frying it a little in a frying pan? Very little oil, for like 3 minutes on each side. Put it in a baking dish, layering it with sause and mozzarella cheese. Then baking it for NO MORE than ONE hour.
Geez, let's not waste, as one member put it here, "Valuable resources" and end up eating mush all at the same time...
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Posted: 7/21/2007 1:51:59 PM |
1. Slice egg pants
Don't look at me Fists...I am still trying to figure out what egg pants are??? Hope you don't slice them when i am wearin them....OUCH!~!!... | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 6:55:44 PM | | lol rk...thanks...comic relief works just as well...OP...quick question...how long does it take you to cook minute rice?...c'mon...this isnt a trick question... | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 6:59:52 PM | | You guys are killin me here! | |
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| Eggplant Mush
Posted: 7/21/2007 8:32:17 PM | Eggplant, a member of the nightshade family contains small amounts of solanine which is quite toxic. The longer you cook it the less there is. Some people are very sensitive to it, especially as they get older.
Cooking it for a long time is not unknown in some cultures, for example, India near the Himalyas. The older you get the longer you are advised to cook eggplant for although some medecine men there advise people to simply stop eating it altogether as you get older.
A more cynical view would have it that eating improperly cooked eggplant makes you snappish and grouchy.
Meow. | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 8:37:54 PM | | Thank you I didnt know that I always get a reaction to eggplant and I love it cooking it longer takes away the toxin who knew | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 8:46:01 PM |
I promise not to slice your egg pants, promise Oh damn! I wanted to watch. The popcorn was popping.... extra butter too! | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 8:56:46 PM | Thats no yolk...ugh
As far as the Eggplant goes...about like fried green tomatoes....Just toss the eggplant outside, cook the breading in the oil and make gravy for taters... Or , bread up some cardboard and season it just right...and there ya have it... | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 9:30:33 PM |
A more cynical view would have it that eating improperly cooked eggplant makes you snappish and grouchy.
LOLOL . We do actually like our veggies cooked mushy. If you like them less so, I'm sure you could do it in less time. This is a dish my daughter makes. She calls it BBQ style, low and slow. She made it the other day and I was eating some as I posted, soooooo yummy. As to the texture, it is eat with a spoon good. (And I have wondered about cooking it in the crockpot, that might come in really handy when school start back up.)
I love eggplant parmesean, fried eggplant, eggplant cassarole, just about any kind of eggplant. One of the great things about this though is that, if you use an all veggie spaghetti sauce, it is all veggie and very low calorie. Also, although this does take a good while to cook, it is quick to prep and is more or less a set it and forget it meal. My favorite was when she made the squash, zuchinni and eggplant together, but she prefers the eggplant plain. (Throw a little onion in next time sweetie, Momma likes onion.)
My personal motto when it comes to cooking is that if we are what we eat, then I must be cheap fast and easy - but the absolutely easiest thing that I have found is to let HER do the cooking! Um, and it's good experience for her. Yeah, yeah, that's it, good experience...  | |
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Posted: 7/21/2007 9:43:57 PM | I'm wondering now about the nutritional value of eggplant. Obviously how you cook it makes a difference, but what is eggplant made of nutrition-wise before it's cooked (anyone?). Personally, I love it breaded and fried and plain or on pizza, but I'm always looking for ways to sneak healthy stuff into tasty dinners.
If you chop it up and add it to spaghetti sauce and let it cook long enough you dont even know it's in there, but it adds a lot of flavor. | |
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