The captains wife was flying home tonight so I wanted to cook her a nice dinner. She’s from New Jersey and loves Italian food. She mentioned her favorite dish was Eggplant Parmesan, so it was on!

She’s old school New Jersey, so this wasn’t going be my healthy version, but the classic Italian-American version.

The pictures below are all messed up and formatted weird. Not sure why? But just embrace it :)

You peel and slice the eggplant thin and then dip it in flour, egg, and then bread crumbs. Here’s the setup…

Once your finished dredging the eggplant, here’s what they will look like…

After that you want to heat up some oil in a pan and fry the eggplant until golden crisp.

Here’s what that looks like…

Of course we don’t want our Eggplant Parmesan to be a greasy mess, so make sure you drain it on some paper towels…

Put some marinara sauce in the bottom of a baking pan and top with a layer of the eggplant. Top that with shredded parmesan and mozzarella. Do that one more time finishing with the cheese. Will look something like this…

Bake it at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to one hour until browned on top.

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