Sea Salt

I promised to tell you why I love 

Sea Salt 

and why I recommend tossing that table

salt over your shoulder

and I don't mean for good luck

I mean for

GOOD-BYE!

Rock salt, Crystal salt, Salt Lick, Salt Peter, Salt&Peppa, Salt Rub.
I ran out of Salt references, although one of those has nothing to do with Salt.

Oh salt salt salt.

I love it!

If people could walk around 

with a salt lick

I'd probably

do it.

I love it.

I love the taste.

I love sprinkling it all over everything.

And if you've read some of my recipes

you might be worried about my 
heavy-handedness with it.

Since I am NOT an expert

click this link

to the

Celtic Sea Salt blog

which gives a beautiful explanation

of it's virtues.

With my "wanna-be-expert-but-still-totally-not-expert"

hat on,

I will briefly try to tackle this one,

but please read the article

"Unrefined Sea Salt vs.Table Salt"

on that blog.

The main thing is that our bodies need Magnesium

and salt is full of it.

Magnesium helps our bodies absorb Calcium,

magnesium helps our muscles not to cramp up,

magnesium is a mineral--

see, I don't know everything,

just enough to know that I don't want companies

washing it off my salt.

What the heck?

Not to mention that the healthy stuff gets washed off and 

then they add a bunch of other stuff

aka "CHEMICALS"

which are bad, bad, bad.

Sea Salt is actually considered a health food.

Salt is needed by our cells

and we constantly lose it through

yucky stuff (pee, sweat, that kind of eeww.)

So we do need to replace it.

Ask an Iron Man Athlete if they use Sea Salt or table salt.

Just curious.

OK.

So not all my readers are interested in health foods and 

alternatives to all the stuff they've lived with for years,

however,

I bet my readers want their food to
 taste good.

Just do your own taste test.

Lick your finger,

dab the Sea Salt.

(yuuuuum!)

Now lick your finger,

dab the table salt.

?

(blech!)

Probably tasting chemicals.

I buy this brand

Selina Naturally

and I have a mortar and pestle.

Buy the crystals

and grind them yourself.

Have the kids do it.

When guests come over,

they like to do it.

It's like tapping into our Pioneer 
roots or something.

It's fun.

You will pay about $5 for a small bag of crystals

and $10 for the same bag ground for you.

(insert colorful language here.)

So do it yourself.

$5 for salt?

Yes.

Taste it and you will be hooked.

It's not bleached or treated and it's salty.

You don't need a lot.

And you certainly don't need to 

shakey, shakey, shakey.

Shaking is for your hips

not your seasonings.

You will sprinkle it on

with your fingers.

That's how you do it.

The taste is more concentrated so shakey would be

flavor overkill

even for me.

Love. Love. Love.

God made it.

It's good.

To my friends out there that like to dip into the GoodBook you'll remember

that there is a reference to salt

"if salt loses it's saltiness then what good is it?"

Although I am using it slightly out of context

(is there such a thing as "slightly out of context?")

it makes me think of 

salt

as 

a

good

thing.

But is it good if all the goodness is washed away?
Hm.
?