Eggplant stuffed with beef

Finishing work at 6 on the weekends is such a treat (and I suppose normal...for a weekday. Oh well) so I get to cook dinner. I decided I want to try to cook eggplant stuffed with beef. It turned out okay, considering I'm not the biggest fan of eggplant. They're so cheap - I bought 6 for about 50 cents. First I alternately peeled them so they were stripy, then I put salt on them and let them sit for 20 minutes. In the meantime I started cooking rice, which I later added canned chickpeas to. Then I (actually Sinan) fried the eggplant in olive oil, and while those were cooling I cooked a mixture of beef stuff (onions, green pepper, tomatoes, garlic, salt, pepper, beef), then I tried to scrape the insides of the eggplant out with not very much luck. It was either too thin in some places or really thick in others. Then I put the beef stuff into the eggplant, put them in a pan, put some water in (and as Sinan has reminded me 17 times, I was supposed to put crushed tomato in but laziness and impatience stopped me), covered the pan, and let them cook for 15 minutes. They could use some work but it was a nice change from the usual (but good) soups.





They like to put pepper on their rice. Not for me, thanks.