Does This Look Gross...or Good?

It tasted delicious:

  What is it?   Gratin potatoes aubergine! 

My classy neighbor has been bringing me fresh veggies from a local farm almost every week since I moved here, and recently I found among the surprises in the bag she brought over a couple lovely eggplants.   So I sliced them thin over the top of my scalloped potatoes, sprinkled chili oil over that, and layered on some cheese.  Then I nuked it all in the NuWave infrared/convection oven until the top was crunchy and brown. 

When I make scalloped potatoes, it is usually in quantity and I start out in the microwave and then put portion-controlled servings away in the freezer to pull out and bake another day, adding something different each time.  Eggplant is related to the potato, so maybe that wasn't awfully different, but it was the first time I made it that way.   Usually I slice the eggplant thick, dip the slices in beaten eggs and then in romano cheese and fry them up in butter until soft. 

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Over the past year Matt and I have dumped many loads of horse ‘stall mix’ into his chicken pen. Those chickens can flatten a huge pile of stall mix in a matter of hours as they sort though every morsel of horse manure looking for left over grains, grubs, and anything remotely edible. The wonderful outcome of their efforts is soil building nitrogen rich manure and eggs. Beautiful, nutritious eggs—a miracle of nature. I warned Matt to never pass out in the chicken pen, as they will eat his eyes out and then him.