{"id":247,"date":"2020-05-15T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:00:12","slug":"salt-simple-and-yet-so-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Salt. Simple and yet, so complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maldon salt, my favourite type. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So my mom (hi mom) never cooked with salt. As in, for my entire childhood all of the food I ate was basically unsalted. We had a salt shaker on the table but it was one of those things that was made in the 1920s and in all likelihood the holes weren’t big enough to allow safe passage of most salt crystals. I don’t recall it ever being an issue. I don’t think my mom was trying to keep us from the evil of salt, it’s just that she never grew up with it herself, and she’s rather sensitive to it. It just wasn’t a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In high school my P.E. teacher was joking around one day, talking about sitting in front of the TV, dipping vegetables into a bowl of salt and eating them. I remember going home and trying it out. I was amazed – it tasted incredible, right up until I overdid it. Story of my life, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wife is a huge salt fan – for the last 25 years, everything in my kitchen has taken on new life with a sprinkle of salt. In the ensuing years my mom has let up a bit as well. She has some salt near her stove which she (judiciously) uses here and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can overdo it, though. I remember making dinner for my folks and it was one of those situations where the sum total of all the salty ingredients (feta cheese, olives..) along with my sprinkling of too much of the salty stuff made for a meal that had me reaching for several glasses of water soon afterwards. Even I thought I overdid it on that one. Live and learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom ate it without comment. That’s love for you. But I knew enough not to repeat that episode. And I did, right up until I didn’t and over salted a steak I was cooking for them a while later. Again, no comment from mom. Still amazes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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