Welcome to the first edition of my new recipe series: The Bachelor Chef Files. I'll be presenting inexpensive, fairly easy and delicious recipes to help all you bachelors (and bachelorettes) out there cook for your dates! The quickest way to a person's heart is definitely through their stomach, so with that in mind, I present a sure-fire way to help your dinner date go well.

For this recipe you will need:

1 or 2 large eggplants
about 2 large tomatoes
1 small package of ricota cheese
1 clove garlic
6 slices swiss cheese
a bit of oregano
a splash of extra virgin olive oil

Turn on oven to 400 degrees. Slice eggplant into thin circles and fry in e.v.o. While it is frying, mince garlic and oregano and mix together with ricota cheese, and slice tomatoes into circles. Cover a cookie sheet with tinfoil (for easy cleaning). Place an eggplant circle down on tinfoil, scoop a tablespoon full of ricota cheese mixture onto eggplant. Cover with another eggplant circle, more ricota, another eggplant circle, a tomato slice and a slice of swiss cheese. Continue until all of the eggplant is used up. Place in oven and bake until swiss cheese is thoroughly melted/bubbly.

Serve with risotto or a salad and red wine.