Meltingly Soft Eggplant and Bacon Tomato Pasta

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   Cook the pasta in plenty of boiling water.

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   Salt the water generously.

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   When you taste the water, it should be so salty that if it were soup, it would be just a bit too salty to drink.

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   Slice the eggplants into rounds, soak in water to remove the bitterness, and dry with paper towels.

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   Heat olive oil in a pan and saute the bacon.

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   When the bacon has rendered its fat, add the eggplant slices to the pan.

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   Add a pinch of salt, and saute slowly on both sides over medium to low heat.

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   2 minutes before the pasta is cooked, take the eggplant out of the pan.

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   Add the tomato sauce to the pan from Step 3 and bring to a boil.

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    Drain the pasta, and add to the pan.

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    Mix quickly, add back the eggplant, top with (black pepper and cheese) and it's done.

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