Not the movie

So I made the most delicious meal this week - ratatouille! Never made it before and, boy howdy, was it easy and tasty. Here's the directions. (Thanks to cooks.com which gave me the start for the recipe.)

1 very large onion, chopped

1 small green bell pepper, chopped

1 small red bell pepper, chopped

1 medium eggplant, skinned and chopped

1 15 oz. can diced tomatoes (I used the fire-roasted)

2 garlic cloves, minced

salt and pepper to taste

2 bay leaves

pinch of nutmeg

1/2 c. red wine

2 Tbsp ketchup

Saute the onions in a generous amount of oil. Add all the other ingredients. Cook on low heat (barely simmering), with the lid on, for a couple of hours, stirring every so often. Add the ketchup the last hour. If your dish tastes bitter after about an hour, add a tsp of salt. Taste it 15 minutes later. If it is still bitter, add another 1/2 tsp. Does the trick. 

When the vegetables are whatever texture you desire (level of doneness), take the lid off and cook off as much liquid as you want. 

Serve over any starch you want - mashed or roasted potatoes, corn or potato pancakes, pasta, rice, couscous, toast, etc. I made fresh corn pancakes from the last of the corn from my garden. The sweetness of the corn seemed to marry very well with the acidity of the ratatouille.

Yummy!!