Egg in My Face

Eggplant that is. I was going to write about the work that I did in the pasture today, but decided instead to use this opportunity to blog about eggplant.This is the first year that we have grown it in the garden, and the first time that I can remember trying it. Well maybe I have at some point in our childhood...we used to eat lots of different veggies and really enjoyed them. I had some smaller eggplant that the chickens decided to peck so instead of letting them peck them to death or have insects get to them I clipped them from the plants. The plants by the way are doing wonderfully...no problems with insects (knock on wood) and besides the chickens giving them a few pecks they have been very very easy to grow!After looking at some recipes online I decided I wanted to do something easy for dinner...I was quite tired from mowing today and a little sunburnt. Spaghetti is easy, premade sauce...browned some hamburger to throw in it. Ok, on to the eggplant. I used my mandolin to make some nice almost 1/4" slices out of 2 medium eggplants...sprinkled them with salt and let them sweat a bit. While they were sweating I beat 2 eggs, which was too much...there was quite a bit left over. In a bag I poured about 1cup of croutons, used a rolling pin to crush them. Oven is being preheated on 450. I grabbed a 9x13 cake pan and lined it with foil. About 15 minutes later I rinsed the eggplant...shook them off a bit and then dipped them in the egg. They then went for a dip in the crouton crumbs and then in the foil lined pan. I gave the slices a light dusting of parmesean (the kind in the shakey can) and into the oven they went. I didnt check the time but it was maybe 10-15 minutes or until the croutons were golden brown. Very quick, easy and yummy!