It’s a miracle — I didn’t burn the apartment down!

I don’t cook very often. I was just telling my classmate today — you have to buy all these ingredients, and then you have a ton of it left over, and then they start to spoil, and finally you throw it all away and grumble about wasting all that money.

Plus my mommy brings me about five tupperware containers of food every week. And then she burps me and changes my diaper.

So you can imagine that when I do try to cook, it usually turns out pretty bad.

I had bought an eggplant for a barbecue, but it never got used. So — a week and a half later — I finally told myself that I had to cook it somehow, or else (horror!) all that food would go to waste. And the orphans in China will all start to cry.

Enter Steve Schirripa’s eggplant parmigiana recipe. Apparently it was from an episode of Paula’s Party, and y’all should know I have grown quite fond of Paula “It’s better with butter” Deen.

Somehow, when I was all done, it looked pretty darn good. And it tasted like food! I mean, the eggplant kind of got lost in all the sauce and cheese, but I think this was the first dish I have ever made that looked so presentable, besides tasting good.