— Marsha Seidelman

With eggplant you can do it a couple of ways one of which is that I will roast that hole down in the Embers of a charcoal grill. I will print it just a couple of times for the tip of a knife to release the steam. Will it burn? Yes, it will but that whole eggplant then gets peeled. Once it just begins to deflate it's done pull it out peel off that outer skin your left with that just all of the wonderful Smoky Ridge eggplant puree that up into a baba ganoush style thing or just chop it up with a knife as I like better. So it leaves some texture to it. You can make hummus out of that with like adding tahini Etc or sort of peel it off with your fingers. Once it's cool enough to touch. It's a long thin strips mix that with some sauteed onions and bell peppers throw on some Sherry vinegar and some olive oil and you've got a Spanish sort of a version of a Spanish dish called a scallivada. Yes, CA V this guy levada, VA I'm sorry. I still have covered brain. Is just a wonderful wonderful way to eat that. Can you grill it into in strips? Yeah, so cut it lengthways as I like better. I just it's easier to do also you're gonna have less surface area to grill. If you cut it all into rounds you end up with a grill that's completely covered and still it's harder to do so, I cut it top to bottom into long thin Stakes which is the way to do it. I salt it then for just about five 10 minutes allow it to draw out some of that moisture had it dry pretty well with paper towels brush it with oil and then Grill it you can of course marinate it Etc. But the key is to Salt it just a few minutes to dry out some of that surface moisture draw out some of that surface moisture and then Pat It Off. So you get some nice grill marks and some sort of structural Integrity to the eggplant. Cheers. There you go.