Aubergine Parmigiana

I felt like trying something simple today – starting from the beginning with my cooking venture. This is mainly because when I try something too complicated it goes incredibly wrong and comes out tasting of nothing.

So was this simple? I think it was but typical Noodlebrains style I skipped a few steps. I did not make my own tomato sauce and used a jar of tomato and basil bolognese sauce.

This actually turned out to be too overpowering with the taste – hmmm so next time I will make the sauce with garlic, onions, tin tomatoes and basil and see what that will taste like (I imagine nothing lol).

I managed to grill the aubergine with garlic on top without burning either – result!

And I smothered everything in cheese, though for some reason the Gouda cheese did not look like it wanted to melt. Shame on it.

Wondering if it’s the cheese or if I just needed to leave it in the oven longer.

Either way, it’s relatively tasty, I’m not 100% sure if the aubergines are cooked but it’s nice and I hope to try this again with a few corrections (cheese that melts, longer cooking time for aubergines & homemade tomato sauce).