In her famous cookbook, Alice B.Toklas called Madame Loubet’s Asparagus Tips “a gastronomic feast. And a thing of beauty.” They are. Here’s how to make them.
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Salt-Roasted Root Vegetables: Potatoes, Shallots, Sunchokes and Others
One of my favorite ways to cook small, whole firm root vegetables is to bury them in Kosher salt and roast them. It yields an extraordinarily pure flavor.
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How (and Why) to Salt Sensually, like Salt Bae
Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe became a surprising meme when his flamboyant technique of salting meat went viral. Though many are transfixed by his rather, er sensual handling of meat, I love that he put SALTING on the map.
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The Day After, via Rumi, William Saltman, Beckett, Ali, Lucien Freud
We’ve collected a few bits of wisdom and thoughts on……the clear…..next…..steps….
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Salt-Roasted Shrimp with Alice’s Aioli
Roasting shrimp in their shells on a bed of hot salt renders them moist, perfectly-seasoned with a pure concentrated ‘sea’ flavor. They are meant to be eaten with one’s fingers, dipped into a sauce, in a slightly pagan summery ritual that’s a pleasure in winter.
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Salt-Roasted New Potatoes with Crème Fraïche and Cracked Coriander
Roasting new potatoes buried in salt transforms them, yielding an extraordinarily pure flavor and creamy interior. Creme fraiche, cracked coriander and snipped chives gild the lily.
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Yamamoto’s Ephemeral Salt Sculptures “Futile Yet Necessary to His Healing”
(Video link here.) There is something very moving about watching artist Motoi Yamamoto painstakingly make his intricate, lacelike installations out of salt…perhaps because they are at once so intricate and so ephemeral. We discovered that the ordinary material we all have on hand is, in Japanese culture, a traditional symbol for mourning and purification. And that Motoi Yamamoto…
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Easter Dinner: Herb Salt Lamb, (or Pork, Chicken, Cookies WhatEVER…)
Inspired by Anthony Giglio’s instagrams using my herb-salt on pork, here’s the basic herb salt method and a recipe for Herb Salt Lamb, whether racks or leg (or cookies for that matter), along with a dazzling presentation…Enough in advance of the coming holidays to get shop and enjoy a stress-free celebration.
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Sea Shell Salt Cellar
Our friend Virgina del Giudice sent us a lovely vacation email with the subject line: “Improvising“: We were on vacation in La Pedrera, Uruguay (very beautiful place!) My husband and I rented a forties garage converted into a cozy little appartment for two. The kitchen was small but perfect for improvising nice recipes like croquettes…
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roast turkey strategies: pre-salting vs wet-brining
Here are my two favorite strategies for producing a perfect roast turkey: dry salting and wet-brining.
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video: sally makes fragrant herb salt + other goodies
(Video link here.) Before I moved up to Harlem, the great Lynne Rosetto Kasper, host of public radio’s The Splendid Table, visited me in my old Chelsea apartment to film me making Tuscan Herb Salt. It’s one riff in The Key Three — three recipes I consider essential in every cooks repertoire — featured on…
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salty-sweet chocolate chip cookie for easter and…
I met New York City Baker Katherine Yang at a book party for Canal House Cooks Every Day, one of our favorite cookbooks. Co-author Christopher Hirscheimer described Katherine as having created one of the best chocolate chip cookies EVER: crisp, at once salty and sweet. Katherine is the creator of Gigi Blue a by-order seriously bakery, where…
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imogen heap sings salt into cosmic design
(Video link here.) On the heels of Sally’s how-to-make-herb-salt-video on The Splendid Table this weekend, we thought this piece by British ‘ecclectic, eccentric and innovative musician’ Imogen Heap would make a nice combo-platter. Heap “sings” salt into a beautiful and very controlled, rather cosmic-looking pattern. Actually, singing might not be the right word – we actually…
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video: sally making herb salt with lynnne rossetto kasper (now there’s no excuse not to make it!)
(Video link here.) As promised in yesterday’s post, here ‘s the video of Sally on public radio’s The Splendid Table showing host Lynne Rossetto Kasper how she makes her Fragrant Herb Salt, and the many possibilities for improvising with it, from roast chicken to vegetables to butter cookies. You’ll find the recipes for it and…
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brown sugar butter cookies with thyme-rosemary-lavender salt
Just before Christmas, I posted my best-ever butter cookie recipe: Ethereal Brown Sugar Butter Cookies, along with many variations. The versatile cookie dough recently inspired yet another improvisation on the basic theme. Actually, it’s an improvisation on my Tuscan Herb Salt Recipe, that I then used on the butter cookies, to make a double-improvisation: Brown…
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the fragrant herb salt recipe is fixed
…and now lists all ingredients HERE. We sincerely apologize for that fatso error. –The Management
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make or buy: fragrant, wildly all-purpose herb salt
One of the staples of my pantry is a classic herb salt fragrant with rosemary, sage, and garlic that is used all over Northern Italy. I learned the recipe – or I should say approach – years ago while traveling with Peggy Markel on one of her Culinary Adventures, and have never grown tired of…
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tuscan herb salt, p-butter cups and other homemade food gifts
If you are in a last minute quandary about unusual and much appreciated gifts,visit public radio’s The Splendid Table where Sally talks with Lynne Rosetto Kasper about Homemade Holiday Food Gifts. All are easy-to-make and pack a big bang-for-the buck. Lemon-Scented Olive Oil with much of the flavor and a fraction of the price of classic Limonato…
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d-i-y aromatherapy baths + bath salts (cheap)
We couldn’t live without the occasional hot bath to cool-out our over-worked selves. Instead of buying expensive, wonderfully-packaged bath salts, “spa crystals” and oils, we came up with a simple formula for doctoring baths that involves no effort at all, is cheap, and allows us to calibrate really pure fragrances to our mood. We just…
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whipped cream with sea salt, and other 2-ingredient discoveries
At the end of an impromtu dinner party, my friend Josh served a chocolate cake with herbes-of-Provence salt his wife Ellen had made. To accompany it, he had whipped some extraordinary bio-dynamic cream from a farmer friend, and I popped a spoonful in my mouth, sans cake, to savor it. Perhaps it was the bowl…
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