Eggplant parmesan

made this tonight with a GIANT eggplant from the farmer's market. everyone absolutely loved it!!! 

EGGPLANT PARMESAN

 

Ingredients

·                                 3 eggplant, peeled and thinly sliced (i used one giant one)

·                                 2 eggs, beaten

·                                 4 cups Italian seasoned bread crumbs

·                                 6 cups spaghetti sauce, divided

·                                 1 (16 ounce) package mozzarella cheese, shredded and divided

·                                 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided

·                                 1/2 teaspoon dried basil

Directions

1.                       Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2.                       Sweat the 1/4" slices by sprinkling with sea salt and letting sit for 30 min. Rinse, pat dry w/paper towel (get good & dry)

3.                     Dip slices into beaten eggs and coat in gallon sized ziploc bag for easy cleaner breading. I used seasoned bread crumbs and tossed in about 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Place in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 7 minutes on each side. Turn oven down to 350.

4.                       In a 9x13 inch baking dish spread spaghetti sauce to cover the bottom. Place a layer of eggplant slices in the sauce. Sprinkle with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. Repeat with remaining ingredients, ending with the cheeses. Sprinkle basil on top.

5.                       Bake in 350 degree preheated oven for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.

Serve with spaghetti noodles. enjoy!

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scroll down a few posts to find the beginning of the july 4th pictures:

ben lighting up

henry comforting a crying sam

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the boys watching fireworks together

sam with his fauxhawk

george slightly terrified of his sparkler

george smiling because i told him he looked terrified

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PICTURES

i was realizing that i hardly ever post pictures of my boys, so here we go.... i got a bunch of cute ones  on the 4th, so get ready for way too many pictures:



mr. sam aka "fat boy" snoozing away

george showing off his gymnastics skills

luchadores

red white and blue cake for my sister's birthday!

Pictures

for those of you who don't do facebook, here are the pictures i have posted of sam:

little man sam!

so remember a few weeks ago when i put potential names up for a vote to help us pick a name for little man??  well, it totally worked. in the end, i realized how much i really did want to name the baby sam. i really felt sick about what to name the baby and about 2 days before he was born we went to barnes and noble to pick some books for the boys and i saw the book "sam and the firefly." i thought the name sam looked so cute all by itself and i realized we could solve the dilemma of having cousins with the same name by not naming them the same name!!! we didn't have to name him samuel, we could just name him sam!! the problem was we couldn't think of a middle name that sounded good, so we spent the next couple of days brainstorming. amid the brainstorm we thought the middle name houston sounded cool, but felt too silly naming the kid sam houston... although we were pleased to find out sam houston is not samuel either, just sam. so we'd like to thank him for the precedent :) after sam was born we tried calling him different names, but he was just sam. then my parents came to visit the hospital and my dad mentioned that sam was born on my dad's grandpa's birthday... grandpa thornton.... sam thornton ... that sounded good!! problem solved!! welcome to the world sam, we're so happy to have you!!