While the name of this dish may be casserole, as I was making it, I have to say it looks and seems a lot like a lasagna, minus the pasta, of course. I used a classic
#momzilla trick and prepped all of my ingredients last night. So today when I got to the house, my casserole was ready to go in the oven. I did actually remember to snap a few photos of layering the goodies.
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| Bottom layer of eggplant with the meaty goodness spread on top. |
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| This was the second layer of cheese. Mmmm... |
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| Construction complete, ready for fridge! |
Once again, your struggling cooking blogger has failed you! I forgot
to take a picture of my beautifully finished baking casserole. I
remembered after Mr. Groom and I had already gotten our servings out, so
I did snap a pic, but I tried to hide the gaping hole in the horizon of
the melted
cheesy eggplant goodness.
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| Mmmm... Behold the cheesy eggplant goodness! |
Speaking of
which. My goodness, was this good!? For a cheese-loving-girl like me,
low carb dieting isn't TOO bad. I can still have cheese! Well lasagna is
one of my favorite dishes and pasta is a big NO-NO on low carb diets.
So my expectations for how yummy this dish would be were met and
exceeded! It had the meat, tomato sauce, and cheese of lasagna and the
eggplant makes a wonderful substitution for pasta.
We
WILL be keeping this recipe for future use. I did decide that for my
next time making it, I would not use my lovely
Pampered Chef stone baking dish. While it's awesome for a lot of dishes because it holds in
the moisture of whatever you're cooking, we did not like that it kept
all the excess juice from the eggplant and it left our casserole kind of
watery
Up next tomorrow night: Hamburger Steak!
Looks great! You are making me hungry.
ReplyDeleteSheila I started substituting eggplant in a lot of my pasta dishes...hubby and kids never even noticed--score! I think the first time I got that idea was from emealz, it was an eggplant lasagna.
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