COOKED: Eggplant Parmesan Or This Blog's Overarching Theme

Is that homework is a very useful, powerful procrastination tool. One must obviously be wise in summoning the power that is all things food. This time it was the eggplant parmesan gods who shone down on me. It all started, per usual, as I lounged around near the TV, guiltily avoiding my homework. I flipped to a reliable channel (can you guess?) the Food Network. There, I stumbled upon Throwdown! with Bobby Flay, who is lovingly nicknamed in this household as "Mr. Nips". This pet name comes from Bobby's complete inability to wear shirts that don't flaunt his precocious chest and all it has to offer. Which boils down to a lot of nip' action. Either that or he's always turned on by his food... I DON'T KNOW I JUST WATCH THE SHOWS I TRY NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT... TOO HARD. Anyway, this day was a day which had previously been set aside to write a final paper. Which had to be in Spanish. Any idea why B. Flay's down throwing suddenly looked so good? Yeah, procrasti-nation. Additionally, the New Yorkian Italian man he was trying to throw down (and completely failed to) was a master eggplant parmesan maker. Inspir(procrastin)ation went into overdrive. I Needed To Make This Dish. Now. So all thoughts paper-related went out the window into the blustery Saturday in May air as I started to cook. This process included thinly slicing the eggplant lengthwise (removing the skin as well), skipping the flour dredging step and dunking the eggplant boards straight into their egg bath. Then, to the hot oil they went. Luckily for me, there was already homemade tomato sauce in the fridge, so compiling the fried eggplants in the sauce was easy (don't think I forgot the cheeses. They were there. Pounds.) It's a pity that my pictures didn't turn out better. I think it's because I was too excited to stand still. But, with good reason, for what a day it had been! A cooking, day-walking ginger with pectoral pointiness on the tube. A hot, steaming dish of eggplant parmesan in real life. A forgotten paper.

Chow, Lucia