Baked Eggplant with Pasta

I've always had an urge to make something stuffed. Stuffed mushrooms (which I still have yet to try), stuffed peppers, stuffed..whatever else that you can possibly stuff. So I found a recipe in my Italian cookbook about stuffed eggplant and decided to give it a try. I will first start out by saying that I really do need to practice on cutting and scoring eggplant if I ever want to do this recipe again. I ended up cutting off too much of the top of the eggplant so that instead of the filling resting comfortably in the eggplant there was just this giant gaping hole for it to escape from. This recipe was actually pretty simple and you can just eat the pasta mixture that's made for the stuffing all by itself. I normally like eggplant, but with this recipe I felt like I was eating way too much of it. It still tasted good, but I don't think it's going to be something I'm going to be making a lot unless I have this giant craving for eggplant.

- I dedicate this post to one of my oldest friends MW. I remember that she likes eggplant so this made me think of her :)