Recipe For Eggplant Lasagna

Lasagna is healthy world famous Italian food what consists of meat (Except in vegetarian lasagna), cheese, vegetables, layers of pasta and pasta sauce. Its recipes spread all over the world and it became one of the most popular and enjoyable meal in America. Lasagna has great benefits for your health because of the garlic and tomato sauce, and even the cheese what provides calcium to strengthen bones. Lasagna consisting of lots of vegetables and the mozzarella cheese needs a long preparation time, but the result is totally worth it.

This spectacular dish is about 4 portions.

Ingredients you'll need:
250 g of lasagna sheets
500 g of tomatoes
300 g of sliced eggplant
1/2 dl of olive oil
1/2 of red chilli
1 clove of garlic
handful of fresh basil
salt
300 g of mozzarella cheese

Directions:

First thing you have to do is to cut the eggplant into 0.5 cm thickness slices and spice with salt, and let it be for about half an hour. Make crosscut to tomatoes and boil them for a minute. Peal the tomatoes, cut in four and remove the seeds. Crush the remaining tomatoes and add olive oil, chopped red chilli, clove of garlic, basil and salt. Boil the lasagna sheets in salted waterl for about 2 minutes. Drain and lay them on a grease-proof paper. Drain the eggplant slices and dry them. Dredge them in flour and cook them in oil. Both sides for 1 minute. Cover the bottom of the baking dish with tomato sauce. Add lasagna sheets. Then add 1/3 of the eggplant slices, 1/3 cheese slices and 1/3 of the tomato sauce. Repeat the layers until you are out of components. On top, the last tcomponent you add is mozzarella cheese. Cook it in oven at 180 degrees for about 45 minutes until golden. This recipe is for 4 people.

Bon Appetite!
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Eggplant and Smoked Mozzarella Cheese Panini Sandwich

Panini sandwiches are grilled on both sides to give the bread a nice toasty taste, flavor and texture, and to melt cheeses and heat ingredients through. These hearty sandwiches are perfect for any brunch, lunch or dinner engagement. Eggplant brushed with olive oil and grilled until browned on the outside and tender on the inside starts this sandwich. Sun dried tomato spread livens up the bread slices, while topping the eggplant with smoked Mozzarella cheese adds a chewy texture and unique flavor.

Cooks Notes:
Specialty sandwich grills are available for the purpose of creating Panini sandwiches. While a skillet or grill pan works well, the sandwich makers are ideal. Substitute hard sandwich rolls for the Ciabatta bread, if necessary or desired.

Eggplant and Smoked Mozzarella Cheese Panini Sandwich
Ingredients:
1 Large Purple Eggplant, sliced 1/4" thick, lightly salted, placed in colander 20 minutes to drain
2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Coarse Salt
Fresh Ground Black Pepper
1 loaf Ciabatta Bread
1/3 cup Sun-Dried Tomato Spread
6 ounces Smoked Mozzarella Cheese, sliced
Preparation:
1. Heat a grill pan over medium heat.
2. Brush the eggplant slices with 1-tablespoon olive oil.
3. Season the eggplant slices with salt and pepper, to taste.
4. Grill until grill marks start, turning only once.
5. Cut the loaf into 4 pieces. Cut each half lengthwise to create sandwich tops and bottoms.
6. Cover the bottom halves of sandwich bread with the sun-dried tomato spread.
7. Place an equal number of grilled eggplant slices over the tomato spread.
8. Top the eggplant with the smoked mozzarella slices. Place the sandwich tops over cheese.
9. Brush the sandwich tops with remaining 1-tablespoon olive oil.
10. Place the sandwiches on grill. Place a heavy skillet on top of each sandwich to press down.
11. Grill until the cheese is melted.




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Avocados and Coconut Oil - Foods That Burn Fat

By Louis Blake
For decades coconut oil and avocados have been maligned as foods likely to cause heart disease because they contained saturated fats. This charge has however been refuted by a world renowned nutritionist and certified personal trainer, Isabel De Los Rios on a video posted on 'YouTube'.

The cause of heart disease is NOT saturated fats but hydrogenated oils, processed, packaged and refined sugar foods, De Los Rios declared. Saturated fats in fact, help the body burn fats and thereby contribute to maintaining good health, she added.Quoting Sally Fallon's book 'Nourishing Traditions', Isabel noted that before 1920 the incidence of heart disease was very low in the United States (US), it was not until 1950 there was a huge increase of heart disease showing at one time an estimated 40% of the US population died from heart disease. It could be higher today, she said.

Adding that if saturated fat was really the cause of increased heart diseases in the US, then statistics should show an increased use of saturated fats after 1920. The actual data however shows (cf. Sally Fallon's - Nourishing Traditions) between 1910 - 1970 traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83% - 62%, butter consumption plummeted from 18 lbs per person per year to 4 lbs per person a year.The intake of dietary cholesterol increased by only 1% during that time, so if people were eating less butter, less saturated fat, with only a marginal increase of dietary cholesterol how could those foods be the cause of increased heart disease? she questioned.

During that same period there was a 400% increase in the average intake of dietary vegetable oils in the form of margarine, shortening and refined oils. Once there was an increase in eating refined oils the instances of heart diseases drastically increased. There was also a 60% increased consumption of sugar and processed foods in that time.
Isabel highlighted the way our liver carries out its role to break down fats and get rid of harmful chemicals from our body.

She explained that bad fats contain harmful chemicals that cause the liver to work overtime to filter those harmful substances from the blood; they therefore hamper the process of the liver to break down fats.
The result is that fat is stored in our body. Good fats on the other hand, stimulate the liver to burn off the fatty tissues stored in our body.A graduate of Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Isabel developed "The Diet Solution Program", the culmination of 12 years research motivated by her desire to help herself and her mother to lose weight.



Louis Blake, a journalist, responded to the news that obesity in his country, Trinidad and Tobago, increased from 25 - 55 percent in 10 years, by launching the website: LoseBellyFatIn8Weeks.weebly.. Isabel De Los Rios weight loss program is highlighted there as 'Weight Loss Nutrition Secrets'.

The Cupcake Phenomenon

In recent times if you look on any cooking show or in any food magazine there is a very good chance you will find some form of cupcake recipe. Particularly around any of the major holidays pretty much any tv show related to the home or entertaining will be guaranteed to feature a gourmet cupcake recipe.

Off the back of this there has been a corresponding increase in the number of specialty cupcake shops that offer a bewildering array of different styles and flavors and have almost developed their own language in much the same way as the coffee shop industry has flourished in recent times.The recent fame and popularity of the cupcake could easily be explained by the human guilt factor - at the end of the day the cupcake, which is the smaller version of the fuller sister, doesn't feel as decadent or as extravagant as a large fancy cake all by itself.

Cupcakes began life as fairy cakes in England in the 19th century when afternoon tea was all the rage among the upper classes and the idea of baking individual cakes took off in the States at the same time where they became known as cupcakes because of the measuring utensil involved.

Roll forward to the 1990's and New York was establishing itself as cupcake central, particularly when Manhattan's swish Magnolia Bakery was featured in an episode of Sex and the City.Today there are speciality cupcake shops across New York and indeed across the US where the craze for this most individual of treats shows no signs of abating. Los Angeles in particular has gone gaga for cupcakes with Hollywood brimming over with bakeries devoted to producing top notch designer delights.

Baking You Own Cupcakes

There are numerous challenges associated with cupcake making, these can be grouped into two main areas; the batter and the cooking process. In an attempt to pack as much flavor such as chocolate into a cupcake it is very easy to "overweigh" the batter making it to heavy for it to rise creating a brownie style cake.Another issue often encountered by novice bakers is that the oven temperature must be exact, as a too hot or too cool oven will result in a sponge that's either brick hard or flat as a pancake! Invest in good hardware, such as non-stick cupcake pans, and spray your paper wrappers with a little oil so your cupcakes turn out just right.

Cupcake makers are the latest addition to the kitchen gadgets and appliances we now take for granted. Essentially a cupcake maker will produce a batch of cakes in as little as 10 minutes, making the process a much faster and less stressful one. Make your cupcake batter in exactly the same way but instead of preheating your oven, simply plug in your cupcake maker and once it's heated to the desired temperature, fill the non-stick baking cups with the mixture and put them into the machine.Cakes produced this way are more reliable than traditional methods because the machine allows you to bake as small or large a batch of cakes as you need and as its temperature is pre-programmed, there's no danger of your cakes failing to rise.

Sandra Thomas is a working mum of three who writes about cupcakes, cupcake makers, and fashion. Her interests include home baking and personal fitness and shopping for clothes.