My "Eco Challenge" Meal

OK - So technically the "Eco-Challenge" I'm taking doesn't start till tomorrow (which means it's not to late to join up!) but I had some things I needed to use.

I had white eggplant and tomatoes that were ripe in my garden (plus I picked some basil) and in the fridge I had green and red peppers about to spoil plus and opened package of turkey bacon I wanted to cook before it spoiled and diced tomatoes in a container. I already wanted to use sausage so that's how last night's dinner came about.

My garden tomatoes!!! I'm finding I have to eat them before the squirrels do. The other night while were eating, a squirrel sat right outside our kitchen window and chowed down on one of m tomatoes, taunting me.

Anyway

Ingredients:

-bulk Italian sausage

-turkey bacon (bake in oven 400 degrees till crispy and break up)

-little wine (whatever you have, or use stock)

-white eggplant - peeled and chopped

- tomatoes - chopped

- can of diced tomatoes

- red peppers

- green peppers

- couple of spoonfuls of minced garlic (from the jar:)

- whole grain Pasta

While the pasta water boiled I browned the sausage and cooked the bacon in the oven. When the sausage was browned I added a little white wine to get the bits off the pan and then added the eggplant, peppers, garlic and canned diced tomatoes. I added the basil, fresh tomatoes and broken up bacon last because they need less cooking time.

Oh yes - and anything that wasn't used from the veggies was put in compost for next year's garden.