Food Fantasia

I think I'm fairly unique when it comes to salt as I very rarely use it.
I hardly ever put it in my cooking and never on my food.
 
Dragonfly said:
Hey Rudy,

Thanks for the answer, not sure I have ever seen Kosher salt here tbh, my fave salt is the Maldon sea salt flakes, which are just really delicious and not too salty somehow lol.. will keep my eyes out for Kosher salt, I might try the only slightly gourmet deli around here on the weekend.

Good for you guys on getting out and BBQing! :D it is starting to slightly cool down here .. although today is hot and humid, i am looking forward to the cooler weather, and hopefully a lot more eating outdoors, I officially HATE Summer.

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Sea salt is closer to Kosher salt, so you have a similar flavor. Around here, Kosher salt is very easy to find, and very inexpensive. Certainly not "gourmet" by any stretch of the imagination. :D

We are starting to see days above the freezing mark here. I've lit the BBQ in colder weather before, but this winter we really slacked off.
 
Brogan said:
I think I'm fairly unique when it comes to salt as I very rarely use it.
I hardly ever put it in my cooking and never on my food.
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I find my food is salty enough on its own, so I rarely add salt myself. I do use it in seasonings, but a lot of that salt falls off during cooking (like BBQ or sauteeing).

I quit using salt around the time my father did. Back in the mid 1970s, his doctor put him on blood pressure medicine, and told him to cut out the salt. He was one of these types who automatically picked up a salt shaker and covered his food with salt without even tasting it. And young as I was, I learned more by imitation than by actually tasting, so I was just doing what he did. It did take a couple of months, but I got used to the lack of salt. And, discovered that food actually had a flavor to it. :D
 
Kosher salt is more for 'koshering' meat, really it's "koshering salt". It's just normal salt without additives made in a way that makes it good for koshering meat - ie. to draw the blood out of meat. :)
 
Jo. said:
Kosher salt is more for 'koshering' meat, really it's "koshering salt". It's just normal salt without additives made in a way that makes it good for koshering meat - ie. to draw the blood out of meat. :)
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Thanks Jo :)

I don't believe I have ever seen it here.
 
Koshering was indeed an original use for it, but "gourmet" types have been using it as seasoning as well. If you were closer I'd send over a box of it. :D They are usually $1-$2 for a decent sized box here.
 
Today I made a chocolate cake (predominately for my son - well that's my excuse :p ) but decided to serve a slice to hubby as a treat .....

Introducing the Dexter Chocolate cake with raspberry coulis and soft whipped cream... I suppose it could be a CSI cake too if you were so inclined :p

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sorry for poor quality pic, my camera seems to have gone wierd so this was taken with a Sony digicam digital video camera.
 
Dragonfly said:
Today I made a chocolate cake (predominately for my son - well that's my excuse :p ) but decided to serve a slice to hubby as a treat .....

Introducing the Dexter Chocolate cake with raspberry coulis and soft whipped cream... I suppose it could be a CSI cake too if you were so inclined :p

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sorry for poor quality pic, my camera seems to have gone wierd so this was taken with a Sony digicam digital video camera.
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I was about to go to sleep until I saw this. Now I'm hungry.
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hehehe sorry about that :p

I had a taste and it was pretty "bloody" good LOL hehehehe

The cream and raspberry is so devine with chocolate cake!
 
Dragonfly said:
Today I made a chocolate cake (predominately for my son - well that's my excuse :p ) but decided to serve a slice to hubby as a treat .....

Introducing the Dexter Chocolate cake with raspberry coulis and soft whipped cream... I suppose it could be a CSI cake too if you were so inclined :p

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sorry for poor quality pic, my camera seems to have gone wierd so this was taken with a Sony digicam digital video camera.
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I haven't read your comment on the cake but belive me the first thing that came in mind was Dexter :D If there is one thing that I like more than your cake there in the picture, it's Dexter :D
 
laztrix said:
I haven't read your comment on the cake but belive me the first thing that came in mind was Dexter :D If there is one thing that I like more than your cake there in the picture, it's Dexter :D
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Hehehehe I instantly thought of Dexter too when I did it :p My husband loves Dexter, so he thought the cake was pretty cool :D

Brogan said:
I want to know how it's magically levitating :D

Looks scrummy!
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Spoooky magic :D hehehe ...

Actually I was talking to Kier one day and he suggested that the soft light that comes through the South facing windows (would be North facing for you guys the non Sunny side anyway) is great for photographing things, and he was so right, it does give a lovely natural lighting to photographed items... but I had to raise the plate up a little as it was too dark, so I put it on an upturned glass :p
 
Sounds delicious Susan!

My camera has started going nuts, it adds horizontal lines to the images now, so I haven't been able to photograph anything lately :(

This weeks pizza was a beauty too, it was ...

Seared Rump Steak, sauteed mushrooms, caramelised onions...on a special BBQ sauce base mmmmm it was good!
 
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