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Ratatouille

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Ratatouille is a dish of stewed vegetables, which can be served in a casserole type form. There are a couple of ways of making it, the way we made it was by layering it and baking it. We used a stoneware baking dish, and it turned out very tasty. You can eat it as a meal, or as a side dish. You can also use a number of different vegetables. We ended up using eggplant, tomato, cucumber, onion, and green peppers, all of which we obtained fresh the day before from Ashley’s dad’s garden.

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Healthy Moussaka

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Sorry for the lack of blog posts last week :(

This past week on the Food Network, we caught part of an episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives with Guy Fieri, and he visited a Greek restaurant that had delicious looking foods, one of which was Moussaka. Moussaka is akin to a vegetable lasagna, but it has no noodles in it, just layers of (usually) eggplant, and sometimes zucchini, with a spiced meat sauce, topped with a bechamel (butter, flour, milk, and cheese), and then baked to golden brown perfection.

We knew that we had to try to make it, but we wanted to make sure that the topping was not as unhealthy as the one on tv was (because they used a lot more butter than I would want to to keep my calorie intake low). We also used ground turkey instead of beef or lamb, which kept it lean as well.

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Eggplant Mushroom Pies

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With a homemade olive oil crust! Yum. Found the recipe online when I was looking for something to use up our other eggplant leftover after Eggplant Parm and to use our mushrooms that we had in the fridge. This is my version, in which we cut out a few things we either didn’t have or didn’t like, and it is a very delicious and filling meal. (And it’s vegetarian! Could be vegan if you substitute something for the brush-on liquid at the end that contains milk and egg…you could definitely use soy milk and egg substitute or even just some more oil).

Eggplant Pie

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Baked Eggplant Parmesan

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So, in light of the fact that I absolutely LOVE eggplant parm and it is the only sub that I will ever buy if given the choice, we decided to make it and share with you what we did. This particular version has baked eggplant with panko breadcrumbs, which keeps it healthier than its fried counterpart AND it is still very crunchy due to the panko (Japanese breadcrumbs… always stay crunchy… please go buy them next time you’re at the grocery store!). It also includes a chunky tomato sauce that we made from a few cans of whole tomatoes that we smashed down and added a few other things to.

New Name: Yumplant Parm

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