Breaded Eggplant Goodness
Eggplants are an excellent source of dietary fiber, potassium, manganese, folate and magnesium. You can enjoy them in many different ways and I always try to find new recipes to enjoy.
If you’re like me and you don’t like large eggplants with those bitter seeds, here’s a great simple recipe that anyone can use for their eggplants.
Ingredients:
o 1 – 2 large eggplant
o 2 eggs
o 1 – 2 cups oil.
o 1 chicken bouillon cube
o black pepper
o 1.5 cups white flour
o 1 – 1.5 cup breadcrumbs
o optional: paprika
Procedure
Fill one plate with flour.
On another plate, crush 3/4 of the bouillon cube, add pepper and mix well with the breadcrumbs.
Beat the eggs in a bowl or plate with a portion of the crushed bouillon cube.
Wash and slice eggplant (approximately 3cm thickness).
Lightly coat in flour and dust off the excess.
Dip sliced pieces in egg mixture and let the excess dip off.
Coat the slices with breadcrumbs and set aside.
Heat oil in a pan on high.
Fry until golden and place on towels to absorb excess oil.
Enjoy!
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 77 – Great Posts from Great People
November is going to be guest post month. I’ll include some of my own thoughts, recipes and DIY ideas but would also like to share other ideas from great bloggers as well.
Send in your favourite craft ideas or DIY projects to share with the community!
FYI: December will be charity month, so send in your top charitable organizations so I can share their profile with others.
Since this one is running right now, I would like to bring up Movember, which is a great organization to help men with prostate cancer. If you would like to take part in this fun and helpful event, check out: Movember.com
Quick Decorations for Halloween Sweets – Great for any occasion!
I simply didn’t have the time to make an effort for Halloween this year -in Japan, people don’t trick or treat….and I suppose I temporarily forgot I’m back in Canada (oops).
I went down to the local convenience store to grab a few little sweets in case children do come along but wanted to make it look more fun and festive than sad little chocolates, so I went to one of my favourite sites for free printables: Disney’s Family Fun (familyfun.go.com)
and quickly printed out these cupcake toppers. Cut them out and stuck them on the candies. The total time to complete was 5 minutes max.
End result:
Since we live in a condo with just a few families, I also wasn’t sure if they would trick or treat here (I did when I was little and living in an apartment), so I quickly grabbed some pictures online and used my beloved photoshop to replace the “Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas” writing with “Trick or Treaters are Welcome!”
Now to finish up last-minute work and get those movies rolling!
One Good Thing A Day – Project Day 76 – Happy Halloween!
I hope you will all have a safe and fun Halloween tonight *^_^*
I plan on watching my favourite Halloween-like movies: Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton is fantastic), Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp is brilliant as always) and of course, Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton is simply a genius).
Waiting for the day I can get myself a cute puppy dog to call “zero”.
Need to Get Into the Halloween Spirit? Try a Themed Restaurant
The Lockup, one of the top unusual izakaya in Tokyo. Almost anyone who has ever been to Tokyo knows of this place and while it’s certainly a place that everyone should check out at least once, especially for Halloween, it’s certainly not a place to go when you’re looking for good food to eat.
Most izakaya offer a lovely selection of delicious food but the Lock Up focuses more on “interactive food” rather than taste. You can mix drink ingredients in beakers with syringes and all while sitting in your very own prison cell. In typical Tokyo fashion, it’s an eclectic mix of things that don’t really go together…men dressed as monsters and killers, young women dressed in skimpy nurse outfits and all in a prison theme.
If you wouldn’t mind a noisy place to eat with strobe lights and people running around hitting the bars of your cell, then I recommend The Lockup, however the last time I went there, about a dozen people had a Birthday (all in about 1 hour), which means the lights go down, strobe lights at full power, staff members run around yelling and the Birthday song plays loud a clear on top of that.
