It’s hard to beat salt as a flavor enhancer. Instead of elaborate seasoning tonight, how about something that shines with the simple addition of this simplest ingredient?
Food Ideas
Love to Cook: Argentine salt-roasted chicken [or, if you’ve got a day or two to prepare, salt cod – more likely to be available because it’s Lent]; fresh green salad with olive oil, lemon juice and salt
Weeknight Reality: Poached cod over wilted greens with salt & vinegar roasted potatoes
Need a Miracle: Salt and pepper steak, spinach salad, and salted caramel gelato for dessert
Recipe Links
Salt Crust Chicken – Francis Mallmann via Epicurious
Deep Fried Battered Salt Cod – Christina’s Cucina (NOTE: takes extra days to prepare because the fish must be soaked – but worth the time)
Salt Cod Croquettes – Food & Wine (again, extra time to prepare but worth it)
Salt and Pepper Steak – bon appetit via Epicurious
Crispy Salt and Vinegar Potatoes – bon appetit
Parting Thought
I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.
Pablo Neruda
dinner prompt 
Thank you for including my mother’s baccala recipe!
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Your timing of posting it was perfect! Looking forward to making. Happy spring!
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Though I feel horribly, horribly guilty about it, I do have some salt cod in the ‘fridge. (Poof. There went all my sustainable living cred.) Thanks for the lovely ideas.
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Same, not same: so there we were in Santa Fe – land of free range, local, organic, sustainable everything, and we were devouring green chile burgers from Bert’s Burger Bowl (God, were they good) where ne’er a free-range, grass-fed, organic patty has darkened the door, and I was thinking that some commitments just have to trump other commitments from time to time, at least when it comes to food. And thanks again for your lentil recipe; expect to see it here soon!
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Vacation doesn’t count. 😉
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