Ingredients

• 1 large eggplant
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 egg (beaten)
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 24-ounce jar marinara sauce
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Recipe

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Cut the eggplant into 1” steaks. Sprinkle with salt and let sit for 10 minutes, then wipe off salt. (Tip: This is called 'sweating' the eggplant -- it makes sure to get rid of moisture and makes sure the eggplant won't fall apart when you cook it! To save time, do the other prep while the eggplant is 'sweating'.)
3. In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, and pepper.
4. In a different bowl, beat 1 egg.
5. In a third bowl, mix your bread crumbs and Parmesean cheese. (Tip: you can never have too much parmesean cheese!)
6. Dip eggplant slices in flour mixture, then egg, then bread crumb mixture.
7. In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat.(Tip: use hot chilli oil to fry in for an added kick.)
8. Fry the eggplant slices until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
9. Place eggplant slices in a greased 9x13 inch baking dish.
10. Top with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. (Tip: Throw some whole grape tomatoes into the baking dish -- they'll cook into the sauce and be a delicious garment )
11. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cheese is melted, bubbly, and brown.
12. Serve immediately alone or with spaghetti. Sprinkle extra cheese as you wish.

Credits

This recipe is from A Simple Plate

Reference Images

A note: I'll be doing my own illustrations so those are to be added soon!

Images

• Hendrick's Gin is a great example of the use of illustrated elements for web. I am hoping to build off of this and make my own illustrations in that style for this project.
• Badr Food plays with how the user interacts with the ingredients. I love the way the typography and photo elements interact -- hoping to bring some of that into my own site.
• Simply Recipe's isn't necisarily layed out in the best way -- I want to play wiht the layout better than they did. However, I really like the small illustrated elements and the yellow callout boxes - it's a great way to add some voice to the website. I could do this by making those callouts with stuff about the extra cheese, different ways of cooking, etc.

Reference Sites - General

• Apple's iPad Site is anoter great example of the use of abstracting parts of the visual elements to show what goes into the product/recipe. I love the way that the elements move as you scroll -- I would love to mimic that if we learn how in
• The LA Olympic Website has a really strong layout that uses all available parts of the screen. I want to play off of this layout for my own designs. It also has some great illustrated examples.
• Taylor Swift's website feels like it's on a piece of paper, and I really like the illustrated feel of it (sensing a pattern in these answers).