Roasting, baking, or sauteing the eggplant before freezing preserves its fresh taste and flavor, minimizes the changes to its texture, and ensures you'll always have it on hand for your eggplant ...

There’s something undeniably magical about Mediterranean cuisine—the way it blends simple, fresh ingredients to create bold ...

What’s not to love? Bastianich’s tips include picking a firm, fresh eggplant, cutting it in thick slices, dredging them in flour and panfrying before draining, cooling, rolling, nestling in ...

Coat an 8-by-11 1/2-inch baking dish with cooking spray. To prepare eggplant: Cut eggplants crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Whisk egg whites with water in a shallow dish until frothy.

After all that, I still had to layer the sauce, eggplant, cheese, and fresh basil and bake the whole thing in the oven. It was difficult handling all the tasks at once. It was a bit frustrating to ...

First things first, says Lidia Bastianich. Before I can even get the first question out of my mouth when I call her to talk about one of my favorite Italian dishes, she wants to make sure I know ...