ModernMom invited me to cook a recipe using Ragu® OldWorld Style® Traditional Sauce. Each jar of sauce contains eleven juicy tomatoes, making this Ragú's richest and thickest sauce, and making it a great choice when cooking new dishes. I put my own spin on Ragú's recipe for No-Bake Eggplant Parmesan by making Eggplant Parmesan Pops, and Eggplant Parmesan Cheese Fries. Both were a big hit in my house! I hope you enjoy them too!

Ingredients
2 cups plain dry bread crumbs
1 ½ cups grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
¼ tsp. garlic powder
2 medium eggplants (about 2 lbs.), peeled and cut into ¼-inch slices
4 eggs, beaten with 3 Tbsp. water
1 jar (1 lb. 8 oz.) Ragu® OldWorld Style® Traditional Sauce 
1 ½ cups part-skim mozzarella cheese (about 6 oz.)
Olive or vegetable oil
Lollipop sticks or skewers for the Pops recipe

Directions for Eggplant Parmesan Pops
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine bread crumbs with ½ cup Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning and garlic powder in medium bowl. Combine the eggs and water in another bowl. Cut the eggplant into ¼-inch slices. Then use your favorite cookie cutters to cut the slices into fun shapes. Poke a lollipop stick or skewer 3/4 of the way into the slice. Dip the eggplant pieces in the egg mixture, and then the bread crumb mixture. Arrange the eggplant slices in a single layer on lightly oiled baking sheets. Bake until eggplant is golden, about 25 minutes. Sprinkle 1-2 Tbsp. mozzarella cheese on each eggplant piece. Bake until the cheese is melted, about 5 minutes. Serve with Ragu® OldWorld Style® Traditional Sauce mixed with Parmesan cheese, as a dipping sauce. You can also bread and bake the scraps that you have from the pieces you cut.

Directions for Eggplant Parmesan Cheese Fries
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine bread crumbs with ½ cup Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning and garlic powder in medium bowl. Combine the eggs and water in another bowl. Cut the eggplant into ¼-inch slices. Then cut the slices into 1/40-inch strips. Dip the eggplant strips in the egg mixture, and then the bread crumb mixture. Arrange the eggplant slices in a single layer on lightly oiled baking sheets. Bake until the eggplant is golden, about 25 minutes. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese over the eggplant pieces. Bake until the cheese is melted, about 5 minutes. Serve with Ragu® OldWorld Style® Traditional Sauce mixed with Parmesan cheese, as a dipping sauce.

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There are lots of options for seder plates for kids out there, but sometimes it is fun to make your own! Especially if you will be hosting a lot of kids. It is always fun for each young guest to have an individual seder plate. 

Supplies
A cardboard tube, such as a paper towel or wrapping paper tube
Decorative tape, such as paper tape or Washi tape
Mini cupcake wrappers
Thin ribbon
Small paper plate


Tools
Hole puncher
Scissors
Markers

Directions
Wrap a 6" strip of decorative tape around the end of your cardboard tube. Then cut a slice off of the tube that is as wide as the tape. Repeat this five more times so that you have six slices. Form the rings into a circle, and punch two holes into each ring, two rings at a time, so that you will be able to tie ribbons through each hole. Put a 5" piece of ribbon through two holes in rings next to each other and tie a bow. Repeat for all six pairs of holes. Cut off extra ribbon. Write the name of each of the six Seder plate items on the outside of each ring. They are: Bitter Herbs, Charoset, Egg, Maror (Horseradish), Parsley and Shank Bone. Place one cupcake wrapper into each ring. Place everything on to a small paper plate, and fill each ring with the ingredient matching its label. Happy Passover Prep!

Enter our drawing for a new family-friendly Seder activity from Jewish Holidays in a Box that will keep your kids engaged, while teaching them about the 15 steps in the Seder. Whimsical illustrations and an easy-to-follow format make it helpful to all Seder participants, from toddlers on up. Use it to prepare before the Seder, or during the Seder, to keep everyone involved in the journey through the Haggadah.

It comes with:

• 5 gloss-coated boards
• 5 playing pawns
• Instructions and ideas for how to use before and during the Seder