Butternut Squash Bake

1/3 Cup Butter
1/3 Cup Sugar (recipe calls for 3/4 Cups but that was too much for me)
2 Eggs
1 5 Ounce Can of Evaporated Milk
1 Teaspoon of Vanilla
2 Cups Mashed and cooked Butternut Squash

Topping: Crushed Cereal (I have used Frosted Flakes, Kashi Cheerios, Granola, use whatever floats your boat), can also add butter and brown sugar to the crushed cereal for a better bake.

Bake and peel the butternut squash (it makes it easier to mash).  Once baked mash up the squash in a large bowl.  Add the butter, sugar, eggs, milk and vanilla.  Preheat the oven to 350 if you have turned it off after cooking the squash, if not turn the temp down to 350.  Pour the mixture into a pan that is 11x7 or 9x5 depending on how deep you want the squash bake to be.  Cook for 45 minutes or until the bake looks like it is mostly set.  Cover the bake with the topping and bake for 5-10 minutes.  This is good as a side dish, dessert (depending on how much sugar used), or for a breakfast dish.  If you make it the night before you have a good and healthy breakfast the next day. 

Poor Man's Lasagna with Eggplant

1 large eggplant, peeled and sliced into 1/2 inch slices (or so)
2 eggs, beaten with a fork
1 1/2 Cups panko breadcrumbs or beaten crackers
1 jar pasta sauce
1 Cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 Cup shredded parmesean cheese

Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Coat eggplant slices with egg then dip in breadcrumbs or crackers.  Spread a light coat of oil over a foil lined baking sheet.  Place the eggplant slices on it in a single layer.  Bake the slices for 15 minutes, flip over then bake another 10 minutes.  Increase the oven temperature to 475 degrees.  In a foil lined 8x10 inch dish layer pasta sauce, eggplant, cheese, and continue to follow this layering until all the eggplant has been used and is covered with a final layer of cheese.  I cooked up some turkey breakfast sausage to add to this and layered the sausage between the eggplant and the sauce.  So my layers when eggplant, sauce, sausage, cheese, eggplant, sauce, sausage, cheese.  Bake in the oven until the cheese melts and turns golden in spots, about 15 minutes.  Serve this delicious meal.  For two people this lasts about 3 days of leftovers.  It cost about $4 to make depending on the price of the eggplant. 

I did have a picture but I can't get it to load, so if I can get it to load later I will add it to this post.