Fusilli with Tomato Sauce, Eggplant, and Pecorino

Alice Waters: The Art of Simple Food; Day 5; Recipe 7+8

Two recipes were made for this meal.  The pasta dish mentioned above, and Simple Tomato Sauce.  With the sauce i went with some of the suggested variations, which in this case included onion and red pepper flakes.  The sauce was a success.  The pasta on the other hand, was a bit on the boring side.  The eggplant tasted pretty good, but not great.  Waters called for the eggplant to be trimmed and sliced thin, which i didn't interpret to mean peeled and sliced thin.  But apparently that's what she meant because the peels did not work well in the pasta.  Other than the eggplant, there was the sauce, fusilli and pecorino.  And it was fine, but ultimately boring to eat and not something we'd want to make again.  In fact, we're starting to get a little bored with the recipes in The Art of Simple Food and will likely be picking a more challenging book to cook from next.