Ha, ha, ha, well, that’s a little word-play on melanzane, which is eggplant in Italian and since this vegetarian recipe is made with those things, whatever they are (are they EGGS or PLANTS?), I thought I would just mess around with the title.
Okay, forget it.
But these appetizers that mama learned from friends in LA who own a bunch of restaurants are really the cat’s pyjamas, so to speak! They disappear in about 5 minutes so make a lot. Make that 5 seconds if you have teen-aged anthros around.
So buy 4 small Japanese eggplants and slice them across into very thin slices and put them in a shallow pan of milk to marinate overnight. Chop a few sprigs of rosemary very fine (NOT FINELY) and have ready a small jar of liquid honey.
When you’re ready to cook, take the slices out of the milk and shake them in a bag with 1 cup of flour, pepper, and a teaspoon of paprika and sauté them in hot olive oil until browned on one side, then turn each slice and brown the other side. Place the slices on a warmed plate and sprinkle the rosemary over them, then drip honey over that and sprinkle with coarse sea salt. Serve. And watch them disappear faster than I can paw a fly.
All of mama’s step-grandkids went banonkers over these (my word) and I’m sure yours will, too.
Who says anthro kids don’t eat eggplant?
Even I eat eggplant. If you put tuna on it…
Hey, that just looks like kitty food. I tell you it’s eggplant, okay?
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an extremely
long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear.
Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Regardless, just wanted
to say great blog!
If you are advertising on my blog I do not allow that.
We would eat eggplant with tuna on it too. 🙂
Yeah, but you gotta try this one!
Eggplant? Vegetables? You do have a varied and interesting diet, Loulou. We figure you’re healthy.
Yeah, well, there are green beans and tomatoes in my cat food from Purina!