Eggplant-Crusted Mini Pizza

This complex little appetizer uses thick eggplant slices as a pizza base. Spoon on a thick sausage and veggie tomato sauce and top with monzarella cheese.

Bottom half 1 eggplant for pizza base
6 oz Sausage
1/4 cup Onion
1/4 cup Carrot
1/4 cup Zucchini
1/4 cup Eggplant
1 cup Tomato Sauce
Black Pepper
Basil or Italian Parsley
Monzarella Cheese


Brown the sausage.

Put oven on broil at 500. Cut the eggplant in half so the round end makes a fat "D." Cut thick (3/4 inch) slices of the round bottom. These will be used for the pizzas and the other half for the sauce.

Finely cube the onion, carrots, zucchini and eggplant for the sauce.

Generously salt the eggplant slices and lightly coat with oil. Place on cookie sheet in oven to broil. Brown one side (4 min), then flip.

Saute the veggies in olive oil. (Start with onion, carrots and eggplant- add the zucchini after a bit.) Add in the sausage and tomato sauce, season with pepper and herbs. It should be a thick, chunky, spoonable mixture. When its all hot, remove the eggplant from the oven and spoon the sauce on top. Sprinkle on some mozarella, pizza like, and put the slices back in the oven until monzarella is browned.

This delicious snack is all about the eggplant! Combined with aromatic sausage and basil, and everyone's favorite toasted monzarella- this is good food.

Thai Red Curry with Chicken

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1-2 tbsp olive oil
1-2 tbsp red curry paste. I recommend Mae Ploy brand and NEVER A Taste of Thai brand.
2 cups cubed chicken (breasts, thighs or tenders... as you like it.)
2 tbsp fine chopped ginger
2 tbsp fine chopped garlic
2 tbsp fine chopped shallots
2 cups chopped snap peas
1 tsp fish sauce
2 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp sugar
1 1/2 can coconut milk
1/2 can vegetable broth
basil
lime

Heat olive oil in large saucepan. Heat curry paste for a couple minutes and add the chicken. Saute for 5 minutes and add ginger, garlic and shallots. Saute another 5 minutes and add snap peas. Mix it all up and add fish sauce, soy sauce and sugar. Saute and add coconut milk and broth. Once this heats up you can start tasting and add more curry, coconut milk or broth to get the flavor you want. Add lime and shredded basil just before serving.

Serve with jasmine rice.

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