Big Casino has solved the problem of cooking eggplant

Everyone loves eating dishes with eggplant in them but most of us don' t like mushy foods. The problem with eggplant is that if you don't use salt to drain off the salt before cooking the eggplant winds up mushy. And if you cut up your eggplant and let it sit with salt for 20 minutes (as recommended) its hard to rinse all the salt off and then you wind up sauteing it which is delicious but not the healthiest option. With some credit given to my incomparable sister-in-law Nancy, the Big Casino has a solution. Cut up the eggplant roughly the size of carrot sticks or french fries or the goofy mozzarella stick appetizers, mix with a little olive oil and bake in a pan for like 30 to 45 minutes, at 450 degrees, stirring like every 15 minutes or so. They will come out of the oven as wonderfully flavorful thin eggplant strips - akin to jerky. You can munch on them immediately or save them and use in almost any dish, such as soft tacos, omelets, pasta dishes etc.