Not really a ratatouille, but...

History:

I love movies. One of my favorite is Ratatouille. And yes, due to that movie I now eat ratatouilles. In fact one of my favorite meals is a ratatouille and fresh bread. Maybe creme brulee for dessert if I am trying to have a fancy date night. So I found this recipe in Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc Summer Vegetable Gretin.... something like that. It really looks like the ratatouille from the movie [he made it]. So I had to make this and here it is:

Recipe:

Onions

Yellow Squash

Zuccinni

Tomatoes [Roma or something like that.... not a big fat one]

Garlic

Egg Plant [I did not use.... same in my ratatouille]

Bread crumbs

Parmasean cheese

salt

pepper

thyme

Mince the garlic [~4 cloves; I tend to use a lot]. Chop the onions [2sh]. Saute in oil until transluscent ~15 minutes. [I add left over melted onions to this (see Southern Cooking)]. Pour and spread over the bottom of a baking dish [9x11 something like that]. Dice the zuchinni [yes I am changing how I spell it each time], squash, tomatoes [+/- egg plant]. Make them little circles about 1/4 inch thick or so. Try to get them the same size. They should look like little wheels. Keep in separate bowls, toss in oil, salt, and pepper. To the bread add some cheese and thyme. Going diagonal make rows of overlapping same vegetables. It will be like doing parallel overlapping lines of vegetables. Wow I wish we got a picture. On each line before adding the next put some of the bread mixture on top. I went squash, tomato, zuchynni [now I am just having fun]. After covering the dish sprinkle the rest of the bread on it to cover and then bake at 350 for about 1.5 hours. I was at yoga when it finished, so Clark tell them how long:

[Clark's soon answer]

Wow, Mar 14th before I realized I was supposed to give input here. Ummm, I think it went about an hour?