Eggplant bake.
A couple Italian sausages with fennel umami etc, spinach, red pepper, sitake dried mushrooms, three cheeses of Asiago(yum) sharp chedder hard parmasian, a half can or more marinara sauce on top for the final bake. There were two layers. There was either too much cheese or not enough, I can't decide.
Lightly salt poke w/fork and press eggplant a couple hours to squeeze out juices.
Bake 20 min, then egg wash and panko, then bake again another 20-30 min.
The unripe eggplant did not want to cook through and needed covering and baking for a bit longer.
This took many hours but was pretty good.
