Urban Peasant Eggplant Parm

*Made only with ingredients found in the back of the cupboard and at a late-night deli in Jamaica, Queens. (i.e. making the best with what you've got = Urban Peasant)
Finding healthy food can be very difficult in some poorer parts of the city, so you've got to use your imagination.

1 purple/white eggplant
1 carrot
1 green pepper
1 white onion
1/2 lb mozzarella
eggs
spanish hard biscuits "galletas"?(don't know the name-very plain flour n water cracker-things)
small jar tomato sauce
one can sardines in tomato sauce
garlic
nutmeg
chili powder
pasta (any kind)

• slice eggplant
  
• crush the hard biscuits into bread crumbs (elbow grease required)
  
• season the biscuit-flour with black pepper, parmesan, salt
  
• batter eggplant slices in egg and biscuit-flour
  
• fry in butter/olive oil
  
• remove from pan
  
• sweat the chopped onions down
  
• add chopped green pepper, grated carrot
  
• one can sardines in tomato:
  
• add fish/tomato flavored oil to the frying vegetables
  
• mash up the remaining fish into paste
  
• add to vegetables
  
• season with pepper, chili powder, dry garlic, nutmeg
  
• add tomato sauce, stir in
  
• season more to taste
  
• bake in layers of eggplant/grated mozzarella/sauce (a shower and a game of rummy is good while you wait)
  
• cook spaghettini very al dente, seasoned with salt
  
• top pasta with eggplant/sauce
  
• enjoy