YOU PICK! (Quarantine Edition) The RESULTS

Last week you voted for my next dinner.

Here were your nominees:

The winner is…

123. Eggplant-Hamburger Sandwich!

I’ll tell ya, this was a bit of a surprise. Based on the social media feedback, I really thought that Frosted Meatloaf was going to take it, but a last-minute surge put No. 123 over the top.

Which was fine–I already had an eggplant because I was planning on making Eggplant Parmesan. If you look at the recipe it isn’t too far off:

Well, except for all of that added ground beef.

So of course I had to, in these challenging times, make a few changes to the dish. But I really didn’t have to do any major alterations.

I had Rice Pilaf-flavored Rice a Roni, eggplant, and ground beef–although, the package from the butcher said ground turkey, it most definitely was NOT ground turkey. I don’t know what happened there, but it didn’t bother me much.

I added “pizza seasoning’ to every element of the eggplant. The flour I dredged it in, the ground meat, the tomato sauce. And we didn’t have mozzarella so I subbed some provolone.

I didn’t bother with the salad (I did not have cucumbers–and even if I did have cucumbers, I do not like cucumbers in sour cream). Nor did I bother with the garlic bread or the Pears au Chocolate. But since those 2 items are not in the photograph, that was no big loss.

So, how was it?

It was fine. It was a little dry, hence the sauce on the side. I think that this could be modified into a pretty good layered casserole thing–with cheese and sauce in between the layers.

Overall: completely non-offensive. And good enough that we ate the leftovers for lunch the next day.

So that’s it! I hope you are all happy with the winner.

P.S. I thought that the Frosted Meatloaf was going to win big so I already made it before voting had ended. Ha! So, that’ll be up on the blog soon.