I would watch her make fried eggplant and this recipe follows the same exact version. You can put your own variation on it (I’ll share how below), but the premise is the same. The end result is ...

It's a family favorite for a reason. It wasn’t until a few weeks ago that my dad walked me through his marinara sauce recipe. I never needed it. As a kid, and even still, the Italian-American ...

In this recipe I salt the eggplant slices, not to get rid of bitterness (modern eggplant varieties aren’t bitter) but to collapse the spongy texture a bit so the eggplant slices don’t soak up ...

Yet, when it came to special occasions (graduations, holidays, and family parties) I’d never ask my father to make his signature recipe. Fried eggplant is assumed to be on the menu. Whenever my dad ...