Baked pasta with eggplant

Pasta and macaroni Italian cuisine

Baking

I invented this recipe on the fly one work night. I had intended to make vegetable chili the weekend before but didn't get around to it. I needed to make a lot of some kind of food with the ingredients I had on hand (we have teenaged boys in the house). It was a cold winter night so baked pasta sounded good. It is much less fussy than many baked pasta dish recipes I've found (really, an egg?) but the addition of eggplant adds a substantial and elegant texture that is delicious but not automatically identifiable. Small children will eat it without questioning.