{"id":6257,"date":"2016-12-22T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2016-12-22T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:30:54","slug":"salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=6257","title":{"rendered":"Salt of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since ancient times<\/a>, salt has been a valuable ingredient for everyday life. From food preservation to food enhancer, it was even used as currency to trade amongst earlier civilizations.<\/p>\n

Salt varieties are bountiful these days. Just take a look at your local grocery store. There are so many d-lish options to choose from fleur de sel (a French sea salt) to hickory smoked flavored and even cabernet red wine salt \u2013 so yummy on a steak!<\/p>\n

Salt just pops the flavor of any dish. Chicken, grilled fish, roasted veggies\u2026and even cocktails! Just remember, a little bit goes a long way.<\/p>\n

We have a great new salt in our Dish D\u2019Lish line up: Rain City Seasoning<\/a> \u2013 inspired by Seattle\u2019s coffee addiction. It\u2019s a blend of Caff\u00e8 Umbria Coffee Roasters<\/a> coffee and Theo Chocolate<\/a> cocoa nibs with two types of salt, dried orange peel, allspice, and other spices to deliver a versatile and d\u2019lish seasoning! Rain City Seasoning<\/strong> is perfect on salmon or steaks or sprinkled on roasted root vegetables. And it\u2019s D\u2019lish as a Bloody Mary rimmer.<\/p>\n

\"RainCitySeasoning<\/a><\/p>\n

But why not get creative and try your hand at making your own flavored salts? It\u2019s easy! Here is my favorite method and a great combination for a DIY Citrus Salt<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"citrus_cutie_herb_salt\"<\/p>\n

Place 2 cups of kosher salt in a bowl
\nAdd in 2 tablespoons each: of lemon zest and finely minced fresh rosemary, sage or thyme
\nToss together then spread on a sheet pan.
\nLet sit out for about a week uncovered in a cool dry place \u2013 mixing daily.
\nOnce the lemon and herbs dried, place in a food processor and whiz it up \u2013 or go old school and use a mortar and pestle.<\/p>\n

You can also add in orange zest, or lime zest too to switch it up! Or double the amount of zest and herbs for extra flavor.<\/p>\n

Now you have a delicious hand crafted salt \u2013 great on almost everything! \u2013Kathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since ancient times, salt has been a valuable ingredient for everyday life. From food preservation to food enhancer, it was even used as currency to trade amongst earlier civilizations. Salt varieties are bountiful these days. Just take a look at your local grocery store. There are so many d-lish options to choose from fleur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[695,11460,11887,11175,75,7088,7,942,11882,1458,293,11884,282,4095,3620,11865,2633,6604,764,2164,11870,11,11883,11178,11888,11857,11859,11461,5675,1124,87,73,11898,11899,6744,332,11890,861,1052,1155],"class_list":{"0":"post-6257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","8":"tag-allspice","9":"tag-bloody-mary-rimmer","10":"tag-caffe-umbria-coffee-roasters","12":"tag-chocolate","13":"tag-citrus-salt","14":"tag-cocktails","15":"tag-coffee","16":"tag-dish-dlish","17":"tag-dried","18":"tag-kathy-casey","20":"tag-kathy-casey-food-studios","21":"tag-komo-news","22":"tag-komo-news-radio","23":"tag-komo-radio","24":"tag-lemon-zest","25":"tag-news-radio","26":"tag-orange","27":"tag-orange-peel","28":"tag-other","29":"tag-poultry","30":"tag-products","31":"tag-rain-city-seasoning","33":"tag-recent","34":"tag-recipes","35":"tag-rimmer","36":"tag-root-vegetables","37":"tag-rosemary","38":"tag-sage","39":"tag-salmon","40":"tag-salt","41":"tag-spices","42":"tag-steaks","43":"tag-theo-chocolate","44":"tag-theo-chocoolate","45":"tag-thyme","46":"tag-vegetables","47":"tag-zest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}