[It was pretty simple to make and tasted pretty good.] I decided that I might try making some sort of tapas-like dish this week while grocery shopping, so I got an eggplant. Tonight I needed to cook something and thought maybe some fried eggplant like thing might be good. I had had a fried eggplant dish in Spain last week which was OK and while it wasn't ham (I was really getting burned out on serrano ham), it was pretty oily, though it did count as a vegetable. I looked through some online recipes to get some ideas and I saw one for an Almost no-oil Pan Fried Eggplant which sounded interesting. Basically, you brown the sides and then add water to steam them. I topped it with a variation on a Sauce Vierge recipe that was easy to make based on the ingredients I had. I included some sun-dried tomatoes, forgot the lemon, and added a little chipotle and smoked paprika. I think it worked pretty well. The full-size picture is here. images/Drawings/Sketches/eggplant+sauce-vierge-sm.jpg