Garden Bounty - Fried and Salted

Not a huge fan of eggplant. None of us are here at Chez Mountain. (Okay, except for Nana's ridiculously delicious eggplant parmigiana, but that is about it). But Papa had given Man Mountain all sorts of plants for First-Garden-Ever and whaddaya know - eggplant lived! So what does one do with foodstuffs one normally does not like - yup, deep fry and sprinkle liberally with salt! Most people would smilingly gnaw on a tire if it was hot, piping, dusted with shiny crystals of salt and smelled like it came from a KFC drive-thru. This duo of lovely aubergines were petite and their skin was so thin, we left it on. We did the tried and true method of flour-egg-panko, revved up some hot vegetable oil and voila!