Eggplant gratin... I have been reading richard olney's simple french food and decided to follow one of his recipes... And when i say follow, not really... But, i read it and was inspired by it... His was basically like, take eggplants, slice and fry. Take onions, cook down, add tomato, spices and then cook it until the water is gone... Then take that mush and hold it.. Then take ricotto and parm with an egg and mix, add cream... Then layer.. I floured the eggplant.. I did a ricotta sour cream mix, flavored with nutmeg and parm.. I also added mozzarella and did a similar tomato thing..
I also don't have bread crumbs so, i used self rise flour.. but, he said, dont bread, just fry.
here are is the tomato mixture, mozarella and basil.. the ricotta, sour cream, egg, and parm mixture goes on next.
2nd layer of eggplant
Top with mozarella.
baked at 450 for 45 minutes:
It was delicious: Glass of wine with lunch!
So, i had an orange and a bag of clementines.. My first thought was to supreme the orange slices but, I was like, f that...firstly, that required getting a new knife and washing and also, well, i had the salad idea as the gratin was cooling.. So, I added cut wedges of oranges with fennel.. Salt, pepper, red pepper and olive oil.. Then I squeezed a clementine over the dressing and then i added thin slices of clementine for the peel and the affect.. i think it looks pretty.
