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Your Food will Taste Forking Better if you just Get Rid of Your Regular Table Salt

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There is a whole world of salt out there. Why the FORK would you even think of using harsh, metallic, heavily processed table salt when you can use natural mineral rich salt that taste better and actually taste less salty. When you use table salt your food doesn’t taste as good. Better tasting salt helps your food to taste better.

The work horse of the kitchen is kosher salt. It’s less harsh and better tasting than table salt. it works wonders with meat.

The Grey Sea Salt has the most taste. Not sure how to describe it and it’s a sort of briny taste but it doesn’t seem like too much salt. Maybe it’s a balance thing?

The Pink Himalayan salt is suppose to be among the healthier salts with more minerals than most other salts. To me this one taste like kosher salt but that might be because of the grind I have. Maybe it’s normally smoother than what I have.

I like the Australian peach colored flake salt. It’s mild and delicate with an interesting texture. You don’t cook with this salt as it is a finishing salt.

Mediterranean Sea Salt is better tasting than regular kosher salt. Less salty, smoother.

The Salt in the middle of the plate is Red Sea Salt. One web site claims that this salt is number one for mineral content. There is something smooth and delicious about it. It’s almost sweet. I’d sprinkle on desserts. It taste like it would go really well with dessert if you want a little smooth salty crunch.

Lastly the most interesting of the salts is the Blue Persian Salt. It was hard to photo but here is a close up.

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Here is another Photo.

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It looks like blue in the salt but I read that it is an optical illusion. It’s the only salt I ever tasted that has a cooling sweet finish. It’s also far more expensive than all the other salts. I purchased a small amount just to try it out. It cost about $5.00 for about 3 ounces. I’m thinking this might be very good to rim an alcoholic drink with because of the unique complexity and smoothness.

You opinion may differ from mine but that is the Forking Truth From Me.

Your Food will taste Forking Better if you just get rid of your Forking Table Salt because there is a whole world of salt out there and ALL OF THEM ARE FORKING better than table salt.

 The Forking Truth

The Forking Truth

Stacked Ratatouille Inspired Recipe

Stacked Ratatouille

Stacked Ratatouille Inspired

Ratatouille is a French Stewed Vegetable dish that’s usually made of tomatoes, onions, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, garlic and herbs.  Each Vegetable is sautéed before layering in the dish. I thought I’d cook most of my vegetables separately because that is the idea about ratatouille. You want to bring out the best of each vegetable. To me squash taste the best broiled and charred. Condensing the tomatoes instead of making them into a sauce because removing the skin. Condensing the tomatoes really elevates them.  I also used tasty slightly spicy Anaheim chilies instead of bell peppers because I had a bunch of them and they also have more flavor than bell peppers with mild heat to cut threw the other vegetables. This recipe is very easy but also very time consuming.

Ingredients I used

Yellow Squash Broiled with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and fresh ground salt and pepper

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Roasted Anaheim Chilies with most skin and cores removed. (I usually broil them ..just tried something different)

Eggplant, first salted and squeezed to release water and then lightly drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and then broiled on both sides.

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Tomatoes that were peeled, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and then condensed. (250 degrees about 6 hours)

Peeled and Concentrated Tomato

Peeled and Concentrated Tomato

Zucchini  drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and broiled on both sides. Fresh ground salt and pepper.

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Slowly cooked thinly sliced sweet onions- roasted in a 350 degree F oven for over an hour loosely covered and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil when ready sprinkled with fresh ground salt and pepper.

Fresh thyme was sprinkled over the zucchini and yellow squash.

Fresh marjoram was sprinkled over the tomatoes.

For all the vegetables I had I grated two garlic cloves over all the pans and now assembled stacks of vegetables.

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Depending of the size and shape of your vegetables you might want to stack them different. I went on bottom yellow squash in an x then chili, eggplant, tomato, zucchini and then sprinkled a little more fresh marjoram on the top.

I froze my leftovers and if they are too soggy then I can turn them into a more traditional Ratatouille Stew. The fresh marjoram and fresh thyme really are delicious with these vegetables.   It would be a crime to use dried herbs here. This combination of vegetables and fresh herbs are really forking delicious!

This is good and that's The Forking Truth

  This is delicious and that’s The Forking Truth