Not disappeared just learning!

A new laptop and its peculiarities have kept me occupied for some time. However I have got going again. Tonight's "Roast (almost ) ratatouille" definitely needs an entry. All my own invention!


With half a tin of crushed tomatoes in the refrigerator and some vegetables including eggplant, capsicum and mushrooms I needed to find a recipe. I don't like eggplant fried because I think it absorbs too much fat. This is what I came up with.

I chopped the eggplant and put it into a casserole. Topped this with the 400 g of crushed tomatoes, 2 dessertspoons of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of rinsed capers and somewhere between 1/8 and 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar. This was covered.

I then sliced a red capsicum and two very big mushrooms and put them onto a greased tray and sprayed these with canola oil.(If I had had any zucchini I would have added this to these as well.)

The two dishes were baked in a fanforced oven at 200 degrees C. for about 25 minutes. If I had been fussy I could have cooked the capsicum until the skin blackened and peeled , however this wasn't necessary.

I served my ratatouille'' with mashed potatoes and green beans for me and added some Sharp Steak for the nonvege meal.

The Sharp Steak I had baked earlier so it only needed reheating.
3/4 kg oysterblade steak which was rubbed with a combination of 2 tablespoons of flour, 1/2 teaspoon of dry mustard and 2 teaspoons of sugar. This was placed in a casserole and a mixture consisting of 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce, 2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce and a little less than 1 cup of water was poured over. This was baked at 160 degrees C. for 2 hours.

Dessert apples were baked with the sharp steak. Core 3 small eating apples (I only did 3 because that was the size of the dish that would fit in the oven with the Sharp Steak). Stuff with a plug of bread, a few sultanas, a small piece of butter and top with another piece of bread. Pour over a couple of tablespoons of orange juice.

I baked this for two hours also and it was much too long so dessert tonight was Mushy Apples and Yoghurt and Icecream. The meal was voted a success!