Meal 131 - Mexican!!

Meal 131 was Mexican Lasagna with eggplant, Mexican rice & Mexican cornbread!

Here's the link to the Mexican Lasagna Recipe that I kinda' used:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/MEXICAN-EGGPLANT-CASSAROLE-1202628

Here's the link to Paula Deen's cornbread recipe that I went by completely:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/layered-mexican-cornbread-recipe/index.html

And the rice is the Dora Rice that I've talked about making before.  Dora is a woman from Mexico that I got to cook with one afternoon while on a mission trip.  Helping her cook these HUGE pots of food was amazing.  Really, it was just a blessing to get to be with her. 

For the rice she started by heating olive oil in a large skillet, then she added the white rice & basically sauteed that uncooked rice until it had almost toasted in the oil.  At that point she added water, tomato bouillon, diced carrots & cilantro.  Covered & let the rice finish cooking.

Cooking with her that day was the first time I had seen tomato bouillon & it was hard to find at first, but most larger grocery stores carry it.  Saturday night this was the my favorite thing.