Ingredients

• 1 large eggplant, sliced
• 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 eggplant into thick steaks: about 1”. Sprinkle with salt and let dry for 10 minutes, then wipe off salt.This dries out the eggplant.
3. In a bowl, mix flour, salt, and pepper.
4. In another bowl, beat 1 egg.
5. In a third bowl, combine bread crumbs and (a lot of) Parmesan 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.
8. Fry eggplant slices until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
9. Place eggplant slices in a greased 9x13 inch baking xdish.
10. Top with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. Place whole grape tomatoes on the inside.
11. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cheese is melted, bubbly, and brown.
12. Serve immediately. Sprinkle extra cheese.

Credits

This recipe is from A Simple Plate

Reference Images

Reference Sites - Recipes

• 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).