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[Sappho]

By request, the pasta sauce I made last night. If you have a larger pan than me, you can make more, of course:

1/2 medium-sized eggplant, salted and cubed
1/2 zucchini, sliced very thin
1/2 red pepper, cut into small pieces
2-3 white or brown mushrooms, sliced thin
1 yellow onion, sliced very thin
3-4 cloves of fresh garlic, chopped small
Handful of fresh basil, chopped
1 can of chopped plum tomatoes (or fresh if you have them, boiled with skins removed)
Black pepper and paprika (I prefer spicy)

Sautee the onion and zucchini in the olive oil until everything is getting soft. Next, add the garlic and red pepper. When that is getting soft too, add the eggplant, mushrooms, and basil. The eggplant and mushrooms will soak up all the oil; try to sautee a bit without letting it burn, to get the flavor in there. Then, dump in the can of tomatoes with some extra water, and the pepper and paprika. Bring to a boil, cover, simmer for... as long as you can stand it. The eggplant must be cooked thoroughly before you eat the sauce. I ended up simmering for well over an hour before I was satisfied. Longer is better in this case.

If you are a big salt user, feel free to add salt to the sauce. But I find it tastes great without, and it's far healthier this way.

Make pasta, add sauce, enjoy.

[Arx]

Thanks, it looks delicious. I'll see if I can make this, but I'm not sure I can get all of the ingredients!

[Sappho]

I would imagine any supermarket would carry all of those things. They're pretty normal, standard veggies. Good luck!

[freeformschooler]

No ill will to the late Julia Child, but three eggs is a little too much for one omelette  Though she only used two on the French Chef.

[scrdest]

Marmite get!

[penguinofhonor]

I'm currently making crock pot ribs. This has never turned out badly.

[majikero]

Soo about cheeses!

All I know about cheese is that it melts when heated. I noticed that different cheeses and different brands of the same cheese melts differently.

I want the melty, creamy kind that I can put in won-ton wrappers and fry it or the ones you put in soup and make it creamy.

Anyone care to enlighten me on the complexity of cheeses?

[Bauglir]

Monterey Jack is a very good place to start, although most cheese, if it melts at all (some types, typically the harder ones, don't), will be stringy unless you do things to it. Combining it with an equal amount of cream cheese and a touch of milk as you melt it should be helpful, or else combining it with starch, such as flour (this is how processed cheeses do it - see Velveeta and the like).

[majikero]

All this time, the cheeses I grew up with is processed cheese? It was Kraft brand of cheese.

I've been looking for something similar for years and the closest I got is American cheese but those things come in slices.

I'll try Velveeta.

[Bauglir]

Yep, that was processed cheese. Look for things labelled "process cheese food", "processed cheese product", or "processed cheese". You can also check the ingredients - unprocessed cheeses will typically have just milk, rennet, enzymes, and possibly color (turmeric or annatto). Processed cheeses will have a much more varied list. Here's a Wikipedia article!

[penguinofhonor]

Dang Wikipedia hopping. Now I want to make a St. Louis Style pizza.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

A few days ago my friends and I were trying to decide on a reward for the winner of a tournament that we were having and the unanimous decision was

A life sized chocolate pony, deep fried, wrapped in bacon, and filled with vanilla ice cream.

Now we just need to make this happen

[Arx]

Step one: acquire entire budget of U.S. military on the pretext that all terrorists are diabetic.

[Sheb]

Why would anyone want to deep-fry chocolate?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Because just about anything tastes better deepfried and if this is done properly it would just be ice cream covered in chocolate wrapped in deep fried bacon in the shape of a pony.
But still everything tastes better deep fried.

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I give you deep fried oreo.
and if the image doesn't pop up in the spoiler sorry this is my first attempt of putting an image on a post.