Happy Father’s Day, everyone! I hope you have all had a great day with your families.
My sister and I typically have a tradition of cooking breakfast for holidays centered around mom and dad. Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthdays, etc. However, this year we decided to do something a little different by cooking dinner instead, since we had breakfast with the more extended family yesterday.
Figured that would make for perfect blog fodder tonight. Though I probably won’t spend too much time fiddling around here because of the whole. You know. Time with the family kind of stuff.
That in mind, hope you’re all ready for some Eggplant Parmesan.
After breakfast yesterday, Aly and I stopped at a grocery store to pick up everything we needed. Eggplant, bread crumbs, pasta, eggs, marinara sauce.
There was only one thing we missed… But I’ll discuss that later for anyone who cant figure out what just yet.
Using the eggs, along with some half-and-half, we made a batter to stick the eggplant slices in before coating them in the breadcrumbs.
From there the slices got fried, which was primarily my job since I’m fairly well known around these parts for being the guy who does things like cook the bacon.
Then once all of the eggplant was done we moved on to the rest of the meal while letting it stay warm in a 200 degree oven.
We hit the pasta and sauce at the same time, one on each stovetop.
Fun fact, Alyson decided to grab angel hair nests in some grandiose attempt to make our meals look fancy…
And I was right telling her that they would just fall apart in the water anyway.
So take that, Aly.
Once those portions were finished, the only step remaining was putting it all together:
Delicious.
Now, for the attentive viewers out there, you might notice that our Eggplant Parmesan was missing a little something.
… The parmesan.
Yeah somehow we managed to make a meal while completely forgetting an ingredient that literally comprises half the name of the dish.
It takes an impressive amount of screwing up to do that, frankly.
Luckily we had SOME cheese in the house to make the meal better. It just wound up being Eggplant Provolone more than Eggplant Parmesan in the end.
But hey, it was still just as tasty.
All we needed to wrap up the meal was a good old fashioned Western. Thank goodness Westworld was here to save the day.
Get it? It’s a spaghetti western.
Haha. Ha.
I hope the joke was worth it, because the episode was heavy this week. Like… Wow.
But hey that’s neither here nor there. Again, I hope you all had a great Father’s Day, and thank you for making my silly series of cooking pictures a part of it.
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