Recipe of the Week: Super Easy Tomato, Garlic & Basil Pizza

From Debbie Tingey:

YOU WILL NEED:

• Your favorite Pizza crust (I use the Boboli Brand that you can buy at the store.....the pre-made stuff. Sometimes I make it home made, and that is good to. It is just easier to use Boboli if you can)
• 2-3 tomatoes (depending on the size)
  
• 1 clove garlic or substitute ~1 Tbls to taste
• 1/4 C fresh chopped basil or 2-3 Tbls dried basil to taste
• 3 Tbls olive oil
• 1 1/2 C Mozzarella cheese
  

1. Press the clove of garlic into the olive oil and set aside.
   
2. Slice the tomatoes, chop the basil and grate the cheese.
3. Brush the olive oil and garlic over the pizza crust
4. Add remaining ingredients.
   

If you use the Boboli crust: Bake at 400 degrees for 15-18 minutes. (Watch for the cheese to turn golden.) If you make the pizza crust, bake it according you your recipe.

Cool, and enjoy.

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Eggplant Parmesan

from Claudia Del Papa

Ingredients:

1 eggplant
4 beaten eggs
salt an pepper to taste
about 2 cups flour
about 3 cups bread crumbs (Italian style)
about 1 cup fresh shredded Parmesan cheese
8- 10 oz mozzarella cheese, sliced
1 jar spaghetti sauce (Bertolli tomato & basil)

extra: bow-tie pasta prepared per directions

1. Peal the eggplant and cut into thin slices, about 1/4 in.
2. In a bowl beat the eggs, salt and pepper to taste.
3. In a plate pour the flour.
4. In another plate pour the bread crumbs.
5. In this order put these things: left - plate of flour, middle - bowl with eggs , right - plate of bread crumbs.
6. Flour each side of the slice eggplant, pour it in the egg bowl and
   last bread crumbs, both sides. Repeat with each eggplant slice.
7. Bake in a cookie sheet, at 375 degrees, for about 8 minutes, and then turn over
   and cook the other side for few more minutes, lightly basting each side with cooking spray (Pam) for crispness.
   
8. Pour tomato sauce over each slice of eggplant, (about 3 tablespoons), some Parmesan cheese, and a couple of slices of mozzarella cheese.
9. Bake few more minutes until the mozzarella melts.
10. In a plate, put some cook pasta, with some sauce, Parmesan cheese
    and the eggplant on top.

Yummy! my kids love this recipe, and is delicious and easy to make. Try it! I like to bake it instead of frying the eggplant, like restaurants do, as that is mushy and not healthy at all! :)

Enjoy it!

Claudia Del Papa