Last night we made food. In our kitchen! We did dishes, we cleaned benches, we cooked, we ate. *bliss* This was not happening in the gluten months. Cooking and cleaning were anaethema. They were not spoken of.
But last night?
Baked eggplant with pan fried chicken breast and homemade tomato sauce

Chicken:
Slice each breast into strips longways, or not, whatever you like. Then pan fry in a drizzle of olive oil. We had a breast each, but ended up with leftovers.

Eggplant:
Slice some steaks lengthways, we cut three from a big eggplant and had 1 leftover. Place in baking dish. Place a piece of chicken on top of that. Then add:

Sauce:
1 can diced tomatos
garlic to taste
1 onion, finely chopped
pinch of dried thyme
mushrooms

Cook onions until translucent, add mushrooms, cook until you think they're done. Add garlic and tomatos and herbs. Simmer until it's all nice and goopy. Pour/spoon over eggplant and chicken.

Top with grated cheese and bake until the eggplant is cooked.

Serving suggestion:
I was having salty cravings last night and topped the eggplant/chicken/sauce/cheese stack with a slice of prosciutto. Yeah baby.

Variation thoughts:
Perhaps spreading the eggplant with some ricotta. But if you do that, why not just go the whole hog and make an eggplant lasagne? hmm....


How can people be sad about being gluten free with meals like this?