Confit Byaldi aka Ratatouille Special

I loved watching the movie about the rat named Remy and seeing the animated dish he created with this name.

This is my next projected dish

I found a lot of types and ingredients so we will see what I can do.

Update: 6/16/12

Ok I decided on the ingredients and style so here we go...

preheat the oven 375 degrees.

1 half- 1 whole onion

tomato paste or very finely chopped fresh tomato's

1-2 clove of garlic

Olive oil

*Note: Ragu, oilve oil, garlic, and chopped tomato works great instead.* :-)

2 zucchini 

2 Japanese eggplant

3 yellow squash

*Note you can add 2 tomatos*

Make sure you removed the ends from all the vegetables and slice them into farily thin pieaces: roughly 1/4-1/8

Take the sliced pieaces place them into a Corningware or metal pan and alternate the slices.

Mine are eggplant, zucchini, squash, etc.

 *Undoing my second row above* change the pattern until you have a spiral pattern like below..

Drizzle some oilve oil over the spiral pattern,

Add pepper, salt, and thyme

Now Parchment paper is recommended as a covering for the dish while it cooks, but lacking that I tried aluminum foil fitting it next to the vegetables and pinch the sides and over the pan.

Allow it to bake at 375 degrees as the oven was preset. for 45-55 minutes.

Check it at 45 to see if the vegetables are cooked or steam is rising from under the foil. Try testing them with a fork.

*Note: You dont want them to cook to much and be limp. Also you don't want browning on the edges*

Once they are cooked to your liking carefully removed them from the oven and, watching the steam, take off the foil.

Plate your dish and add some of the sauce to it.

Enjoy.. it tasted great.