Gracious and merciful Garlic, supreme and only One:
please listen to my story and let your indulgence cover the faults of this
world of sinners.
 
I was home after 10 hours hard work in the coal mine - a hundred feets unterground - only wanting to cook a good italian dinner for my friends.
I wore my tipical italian cooking dress... the complete parmigiana recipe was in my head from the beginning to the end....
 
...but surprise! Unequivocal signs of autonomy in my kitchen! - some fried eggplants laying in the pot. ..and many already in rounds, but too thick!
  Ok ok, no panic. I can imagine that the man with the strange haircut had no bad intentions. He just wanted to be lovely and help me.
That's why he has already washed, dryed, cutted and fried the eggplants.
  Remember! The next time, pare and slice the eggplants into 1/4-inch rounds.
Fry in really hot extravergine olive oil on both sides until golden brown.
Then drain on absorbent paper towels.
  Ingredients: tomatos for the sauce, a lot of eggplants (2 pro person) garlic and onions for the tomato sauce, olive oil extravergine, feta-like cheese and olives to entertain your guests and keep them alive during the long time cooking - and many many parmigiano cheese..
In some wild, uncultivated countrys, you can find the parmigiano cheese ready to use in little plastic bags. It's ok.
 

"In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun." Galileo Galilei

if you think you create a new universe every time you are cooking - then your Ego may have some problems...

  When the little fried egg-planets are brown, remove them from the oil and they are ready for the stovesitter:
  Parmiggiana is a ciclic hierarchical concept: from the bottom to the top oil tomato sauce eggplants parmigiano tomato sauce eggplants parmigiano tomato sauce eggplants parmigiano.
 

"Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God." - Thomas Aquinas.

Well a little bit of faith it's not bad, but you are supposed to check that God does not burn your parmigiana!
Also i would say have Faith for 20 minutes and then open your eyes and check it up.

  Well done! This is a good exemple of parmiggiana, now you must wait 10 minuts and eat it.
 

 

Very soon you will discover that your beautiful parmigiana will be enough for two or three persons.
So don't relax too long and go on cooking for the other guests...

 

"The more hungry they are, the more diligent and hard they will work" - Ingo

 

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half" - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
In the second half of the evening your guests are able to do a good job independently from your conduction.

  After 2 hours on frying I can sit down, drink wine and look at the guests at work.
A persistent smell of fried eggplants will follow me for one week.
The people down in the coalmine will find it not so fine.
  If it's really late and the guests absolutly want to eat before the sunrise, then it's possible to use directly the tomatoes from the box, without preventive cooking.
It's more decadent, but it's ok, after hours of work, fried oil in the air and wine, nobody will note this little escamotage.
  After 3 hours frying eggplants, every single cell of your body will supplicate to have a stop.
This means it's time to eat.
 

Time to eat....

"Each heart is pleased / When can be life so sweetly / and lovely as now? " - Giacomo Leopardi

 

"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance" - Giambattista Vico

Be luxurious and enjoy the substance in Peace







 

Special guests: Alessandro, Birgit, Carsten, Carola, Dagmar, ingo, Marco.

Pictures: BIrgit, Carola, Marco
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