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Chicken Fajita Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole

Hawaiian Fiesta Casserole

Kabocha Squash Casserole GlutenFree

Crock Pot Breakfast Casserole

Forgot to post the result yesterday

It was very tasty and you have food for at least 6 people

I' m just gonna leave this here...

These are Panem (the 58 year old green woman) and Ulysses (the 14 year old ginger), My Marble Sky OCs!!

Panem Is a very hardworking, loyal, funny and brutaly honest marmor, who tends to be reckless, sadistic, whiny and brute. She has a lot of respect and loyalty to her moon, and practicly Is the number 2 Ecliptica fan (Oscar won the first place).

She used to be one of the fiercesest marmors in both hunts and battle, but due to her recklesness she´s got injuries that she couldn´t recover from. So, by Ecliptica´s orders, Panem is temporary confined in the ship (Or as Oscar says, "grounded") until she can adapt to her new protesis and learn from her past mistakes. She did not take that well at all, hence in her whinness. Still, she got very attached with the children in he ship, specially Ulysses. Sometimes she even helps him with his proyects, and since she usually helps with feeding the prisioners, she might or might not let the door open just a bit, enough for a little reddish marmor to get in and out easily, even if she was told not to do so. As I stated previously, she is too reckless for her own good, dosen´t use her common sense or she just simply do not care unless Ecliptica says so. She´s not very smart ethier,she gets caught every. single. time.

This little ginger menace may be cute, but his heart is full of dark thoughts and bitting. He is very smart, and talks a LOT. He wants to be like Sculptor (BOOOO) when he grows up, since he finds extraterrestial life not only delicious, but fascinating. He sees Panem like a rather annoying older sister, even if he secretly admires her passionate attitude and her ability to engage with everyone, wich he has a lot of truble with. If he´s not spending his time with Panem, he is most likely following Sculptor around, annoying Alcor or sneaking in the cells to make his own investigation and analysis of the prisioners to impress Sculptor (and Panem). He loves discovering new weird stuff about everything every day!

*Flees away*

edit: Btw this series was made by @somerandomdudelmao, so check it out!!!

Stews - Beef Bourguignon II

Christmas Green Chile Egg Casserole Impress your family during the holidays with a green chile egg casserole that will warm the house and have everyone coming back for seconds.

Green Chile Eggs - Eggs

Main Dishes - Broccoli Hamburger Casserole In this simple, delectable casserole, broccoli is layered with a creamy beef mixture, and cheese is on top.

Side Dish - Corn Casserole - Macaroni Corn Casserole This corn mac and cheese casserole is made with canned corn, pasta, and cheese and bakes up extra creamy and moist for a satisfying weeknight dinner.

Breakfast and Brunch - Down Home Comfort Casserole This baked casserole has layers of corned beef hash with eggs, shredded cheese, and country gravy on top of a biscuit base.

Side Dish - Cheesy Squash and Zucchini Casserole Zucchini and yellow squash are baked into a bubbling, cheesy casserole for a crowd-pleasing side dish.

Eggs - Best Breakfast Casserole On holiday mornings, a hearty breakfast casserole made with sausage, crescent rolls, eggs, and Cheddar cheese is always appreciated.

Eggs - Mouth Watering Medley A hearty vegetable and ham breakfast casserole made with broccoli, ham, Cheddar cheese and eggs.

Eggs - Christmas Morning Egg Casserole

Putzwutz - Pasta and Noodles Ground beef and pork are blended with egg noodles, cheese and some vegetables in a tomatoey sauce. This is a casserole that my mom used to make all the time when I was growing up. Freezes very well!!!

Meat and Poultry - Ground Turkey - Easy Easy Casserole

Eggplant Parmesan

Now, how mouthwatering delicious does THAT look? 

HOMEMADE Eggplant Parmesan!

When trying to figure out what recipe I wanted to try cooking for my first blog post, I could not think of anything. I was WAY overthinking it. I didn’t want anything too boring or too simple, but the fact that my cooking has been on a little hiatus I wasn’t feeling overly daring in the kitchen quite yet either. I kept putting it off and putting it off. The idea came to me when I was flipping through my mail and came across some coupons. Me wanting to live a more balanced and full life, being better with my money is definitely at the top of the list. So I decided to actually take a look instead of just throwing them into a drawer, never to see the light of day again. I saw some coupons for fresh produce and saw that eggplant was on sale for JUST 98 cents! Now i’m not sure how good of a “deal” that is, being that I have never bought an eggplant before but 98 cents sounded pretty good to me. Then I realized, I had all of the ingredients at home needed for eggplant parmesan, except for the star of the show….THE EGGPLANT. So I snipped my very first coupon and headed to the store.

This was PERFECT to make for my first recipe because I was being frugal with my money (Great Feeling!!) and I would be cooking something that I have never made before. Although picking out the eggplant was a little intimidating (there were all different shades of purple going on) I bit the bullet and just chose one. I mean hey if something went wrong, anything smothered in cheese and delicious marinara sauce cant be too bad right?

Now, it was time to get cookin’

My adventure in the kitchen with the eggplant parmesan has now begun :)

First step on the list was to slice the eggplant into slices and salt both sides. Ok, I can do that, CHECK!  As I read on, the recipe said to let the slices sit in a colander for an hour for all of the liquid to drain out. BUMMER! I have to be honest, my first thought was to just skip this step and move on. I can be a little inpatient and hey I was ready to move on to the fun and messy part, dunking those slices into the egg wash and breadcrumbs. But I wanted this eggplant parmesan to come out perfect so I did as it said and I waited…and waited…and waited. Man those slices were SWEATING! I had no idea how much liquid there was in an eggplant. Glad I didn’t skip this step, it seemed important ;)

Now the FUN part! As I went to whisk the eggs and milk together for the eggwash I realized I did not have any milk. Again my mind went straight to “Its just a half a cup, lets just SKIP the milk i’m sure eggs will be fine. But I wanted this to come out perfect so off to the store I went for a second time. It was a bummer having to run back out but I found a way to see the positive in it. My supermarket is having that monopoly sweepstakes giveaway game going on and I am only one more ticket away from winning a million dollars. This milk could be my winning  ticket!! Everything happens for a reason right?

Sadly, still not a millionaire. But back to the eggplant parmesan, now with the milk to make this a truly winning dish at least  ;) 

Now, I know I said earlier that this was the fun part, but honestly this was more intimidating than picking out the eggplant. I have never really fried anything either but I survived!  My eggplant slices came out fried to a perfect golden brown. Except for the first one…the burnt one that is strategically not shown in this picture. These fry up fast, so be sure to keep an eye on them not to make the same mistake I did with that stubborn first one ;)

I carefully constructed the layers of marinara sauce, eggplant slices and cheese in the baking dish. Maybe a little too careful, this step took me 3 times as long as it probably should. But like I said earlier I wanted this dish to come out perfect.  I even got a little daring by adding spicy Italian sausage and crushed red pepper flakes to my marinara sauce. Popped it into the oven and I can honestly say to my SURPRISE….

THIS DISH CAME OUT PERFECT! 

Following the recipe step by step and deciding not to skip anything really paid off! ;) This is definitely a dish I would make again and I can now check off  eggplant as something I have conquered successfully in the kitchen. Absolutely delicious.

INGREDIENTS

1 large eggplant, sliced into ½" thick slices

2 tbsp kosher salt

1 ½ cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs

3 eggs

½ cup milk

4 tbsp vegetable oil, for lightly pan-frying

3 cups marinara sauce

2 cups shredded mozzarella 

1 cup shredded parmesan cheese 

Handful of fresh basil leaves, chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

Salt both sides of your eggplant slices and place them in a large colander in the sink. Let the liquid drain for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

When your eggplant slices have finished draining liquid, brush off the excess salt.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In 2 bowls, add breadcrumbs to one and whisk eggs and milk in the other. Dip both sides of eggplant slice into milk/egg mixture then cover with breadcrumbs, shaking off the excess. Place on plate or large baking sheet.

Heat a skillet over medium high heat and add 1 tbsp. of vegetable oil into the skillet. Once the skillet is hot, add two eggplant slices at a time to the skillet and cook on both sides until golden brown, remove and set on a large plate lined with paper towels. Repeat with 1 tbsp. of vegetable oil for every 2 eggplant slices.

In a large baking dish, add 1 cup of marinara sauce to the bottom of the dish. Add a layer of eggplant slices then use about ¼ cup of marinara sauce to top each of the eggplant slices. On top of the eggplant slices, sprinkle a generous amount of mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese. Repeat the layers until you run out of eggplants slices. Top the casserole with more cheese before you place in the oven

Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly and brown on top.  Use the broiler for 5 minutes to get the cheese nice and brown (keep a close eye on it not to burn)

Serve hot and top with chopped basil

Fish - Cod au Gratin Flaked cod is layered with white sauce, and sprinkled with Cheddar cheese before being baked in this simple casserole.

Main Dishes - Ground Beef Green Chili Casserole This casserole of beef, cheese, and green chile peppers is sure to please everyone.

Mamaw's Chicken and Rice Casserole - Chicken You will be reminded of your grandmother's cooking by how quick and simple it is to put together this chicken and rice casserole.

Slow Cooker Cauliflower Casserole - Side Dish - Cauliflower Cauliflower can be eaten raw, or roasted, steamed, or mashed--but in this recipe it's combined with cheese and apple sausage in a casserole and cooked in a slow cooker.

Veggie Chili Cornbread Casserole - Main Dishes You'll want to prepare this vegetarian chili cornbread casserole recipe for your friends and family every week because it tastes so good.

Casserole - Chicken and Rice Casserole with Potato Chip Topping

Meat and Poultry - Chicken Spectacular Cubed leftover chicken, wild rice, pimentos, green beans, and water chestnuts flavor this easy breezy casserole.

Chicken Florentine Casserole - Chicken Breast Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are topped with bacon bits and shredded mozzarella, then baked on a bed of spinach and mushrooms with a garlicky cream sauce.

I desperately wish to see more of this non-religious guy and his mom's prayer circle making garlic casserole and fighting vampires.

"You have misunderstood the lore, hunter. It is neither crucifix, nor rosary, nor holy water, nor any other trapping of faith, but faith ITSELF that is anathema to my kind. And yours has proven to be. . . insufficient."