recipe o' the day

Mainly for use in summer when eggy-plant is affordable. Greasy and veggie, and very bad for you. And very little like a real cheese steak. Oh well.

Roasted eggy-plant "cheesesteak"

• ~1/2 a roasted eggy-plant (instructions below)
• ~ 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
• 2T oil- olive or soy, or veggie, doesn't matter
• 3 or 4 slices of mozz. cheese. or provelone. Or cheddar, if you're that kinda person
• 6 inch sub roll, chunk of baguette, sourdough, whatever
• Salt
• optional- sliced decomposers (mushrooms), bell pepper (capsicum), meat

Heat the oil in a frying pan medium or high heat, depending on how patient you are. I use high.
Toss in that chopped onion. And some salt. If using optional stuff, probably wanna toss it in first. Cook the onion untill it's kinda see thru. Maybe a bit of brown. The salt *should* keep it from burning, but mix it up a lot.
Slice your bread, like for a sammich. Toss it on a cookie sheet, filling side down,on foil if you don't like cleaning. stick it under the broiler for a couple minutes, untill it's warm and crispy. Don't let it burn.
Repeat- DON'T LET IT BURN!
while the bread is heating, reheat the eggy-plant slices in the frying pan.
Ok, now it's time to actually do the sammich making part- layer the eggy-plant on one side of the bread. cover it with the onions and any optional-type stuff you want. Cover the other side with cheese.
Stick this under the broiler untill the cheese is melty or bubbly, or however you like it.
DON'T BURN THE BREAD! (what? me? burn the bread? Never....)
Roll it up in the foil and eat it. yum.


For the roasted eggy-plant.

you'll need-
an eggy-plant
oil
salt
foil (no, trust me)
a baking sheet and
an oven

Cut the top off the eggplant, they're usually easier to peel if you cut them in half at the equater, too.
Peel that sucker.
Cut it into either rounds about 1/4" thick, (like half a cm?) or into sticks about the same thickness and an inch or more across.
Set them out on your foil covered baking sheet.
drizzle or dip or in some other way attack them with oil.
sprinkle salt over them- I usually use about a tablespoon of sea salt per side for the whole eggy-plant.
Toss that sucker under the broiler.
When it starts looking dry, or oily, or like it's trying to peel, or shrink (about 15 or 20 minutes) pull the sheet out and flip the eggy plants.
add more salt,oil if you need it, and cook this side untill it's brown and yummy- but not burned.
flip back to the first side, brown it, and you're done.

You can also pan fry or bbq it- bbq takes less time/ flipping, pan frying is good for small batches.
1/2 a medium eggyplant is enough for one sammich.


Is also yummy on pizza. Oh, wait, I haven't put that one down yet, have I.... Ah well, later.

j.