Eggplant Recipes

Baked Eggplant
4 Servings
Preheat oven to 350o

1 eggplant, sliced into -inch slices
1 egg, beaten
1 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
2 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced thinly
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Dip eggplant slices, one at a time, in the beaten egg. Coat with seasoned breadcrumbs and lay flat on a platter. Refrigerate the coated slices for 1 hour. Meanwhile, peel and slice garlic. In a large frying pan, add the oil and heat just until smoking. Add the garlic and fry the eggplant slices until brown on each side, about 5 minutes a side.

Place the fried slices into an oiled, rectangular casserole. Arrange neatly and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for 15 minutes.

Eggplant-plus Stew
4 servings

1/4 cup olive oil
1 eggplant, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2 carrots, sliced thinly
2 cups fat-free chicken broth
2 cups of tomato puree
Salt, pepper and oregano to taste
2 medium zucchini, sliced thickly
1/4 cup wine vinegar
In a large saucepan, heat the oil and add eggplant cubes, garlic and onion. Saut for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the remaining ingredients except the vinegar. Bring mixture to a boil, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in the wine vinegar and adjust seasonings.

Preventing Kidney Stones

Kidney stones are rock-hard accumulation of crystal deposits, usually composed of calcium and oxalates that can grow and obstruct the flow of urine through the kidneys. About a million Americans are hospitalized every year for treatment of kidney stones. Men are three times as susceptible to kidney stones as women. Once you have kidney stones, the chances of a reoccurring stone are about forty percent in the next five years, and eighty percent in the next twenty-five years. Whether you develop stones depends on many factors, including heredity, metabolic abnormalities, infections, medications, and diet.

The formation of kidney stones is affected by your diet. Crystals of minerals, including food supplies of calcium and oxalates, are dissolved in the urine that passes through the kidney. When the urine becomes supersaturated, the crystals fall out and collect into tiny masses that accumulate into hard stones. What you eat helps determine the crystal content and crystal saturation of your urine. About 80% of all stones afflicting people in industrialized nations are made of calcium oxalate. How do you use your diet as weapon to fight kidney stones? The answer is to eat in a way that keeps high levels of calcium and oxalates out of urine.