{"id":1369,"date":"2018-08-23T06:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T06:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:03:08","slug":"mm-enterprise-cooking-vol-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premesso.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"M&M Enterprise Cooking, Vol. II"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 22.<\/span> Una specie di parmigiana di melanzane.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Parmigiana con mozzarella e salsiccia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I bought long local eggplants at the bazaar last week, saut\u00e9ed them in Spanish EVOO with garlic, layered with them cafeteria provided mozzarella slices, threw in some gifted modest tomato sauce (Hunt\u2019s in a can, Prego in a jar), baked for a half hour at 180C, secured cooked Italian sausage from the cafeteria, sliced that and some DOP pecorino, and added it on top, let it bake at 180 for another thirty minutes, let it cool and topped the whole thing with the good Italian organic EVOO and some basil grown in the garden here. Let it cool for a bit and it was fairly delightful. Using substandard tomatoes breaks a cardinal rule, but — war zone rules. The sausage gives it a Pugliese twist; it’s similar to this recipe<\/a>, which I found after the fact, although I didn’t batter or deep fry the eggplants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kept half for today\u2019s penne lunch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course,\u00a0the name of the dish, ubiquitous in east coast sub shops, certainly has little to do with the city in Emilia — this should be a known quantity to all who care at this point — but I was intrigued to learn that\u00a0parmiciana<\/i> may come from its Turkish name patl\u0131can<\/em>, itself an Arabic borrowing, which was, of course, what we called them in Macedonia as well. The Italian wiki<\/a> (“Attribuzione siciliana<\/span>“) has some good theorizing.<\/span><\/p>\n

How\u00a0the storied fruit of\u00a0Solanum melongena<\/span><\/em>\u00a0ended up with so many different names<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>is its own story and the interested should be able to turn up some good explanations with minimal Googling. Here’s one of many<\/a><\/span>, although the author is a little too credulous at times — mela insana <\/em>(apple of madness) for\u00a0melanzana<\/em>\u00a0is pure folk etymology.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 22. Una specie di parmigiana di melanzane.\u00a0 I bought long local eggplants at the bazaar last week, saut\u00e9ed them in Spanish EVOO with garlic, layered with them cafeteria provided mozzarella slices, threw in some gifted modest tomato sauce (Hunt\u2019s in a can, Prego in a jar), baked for a half hour at 180C, secured … <\/p>\n

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