Hello All!

Any chef will tell you that most recipes require a little bit of salt, right? Well, today’s cooking lesson is just that…all about salts! So before you grab the table salt, take a look at our salt list below and what foods to put it on!

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• Sea Salt: Commonly called bay salt or solar salt, adding sea salt to your recipes will make for a wonderful and unexpected crunch! Try adding it to roasted veggies, such as green beans and carrots, or try your hand at MINDIE HILTON’S recipe for SPARKLING ITALIAN TREATS using sea salt!  

• Pink Salt: Himalayan Salt and Alaea Salt are two kinds of pink salts, but you can use this salt on a variety of foods:  grind this salt over grilled shrimp skewers or roasted veggies or use it to make a vinaigrette.

• Fleur de sel: Meaning “flower of salt,” sprinkle this salt over warm chocolate chip cookies, freshly made caramels or watermelon wedges.

We’ve listed three of our favorite salts to cook with, but now we want to know yours: Do you like cooking with Sea Salt, Pink Salt or Fleur de Sel, or another salt altogether? Tell us your favorite salt and your favorite recipe to make with it!