Let’s get controversial! Where do you stand on adding salt to your food at the table? OK, not just salt, but include pepper, ketchup, sauces, croutons, whatever!
Let the conversation rage!
Happy Moanday!
Depending on the food, pretty much always add a sprinkle of salt and pepper to a meal.
Sauces mainly for breakfast. Tomato sauce on scrambled eggs, Worcestershire sauce on poached or fried eggs.
I like to taste my food before adding anything. I don’t understand people who just automatically salt and pepper food without even tasting it.
That being said, if I do add salt to anything, it’s because the food was prepared without seasoning…or something. I’m not a huge fan of too much salt, but salt does have its place and a little is needed…while preparing the food.
One should never salt one’s food until one has tasted it - it drives me crazy when my spousal unit reaches for the salt first thing. In fact, no seasonings should be added before the food is tasted - that way lies madness!!
Depending on the dish, I’ll have ketchup or BBQ sauce in a puddle on my plate rather than poured over the food. Gravy goes directly on spuds or meatloaf - I think that’s a law. Croutons need to be banned forever! So sayeth I!!!
Yeah, semi-cranky this morning. I crashed a bit after 8 with Mel, then woke just before 2 and was awake/asleep on and off till nearly 7, getting up 3 times to empty my bladder - I didn’t know I’d had that much to drink last night… I am feeling more rested, and part of the reason I had trouble falling back to sleep was thinking about all I have to do today. Stoopit brain.
But I’m up and fed and caffeinated and trying to psyche myself into getting dressed and putting the dining room back together. It will even involve getting out the ironing board!! I laundered the curtains but didn’t get the out of the dryer right away, dammit. So I’ll iron first, then put all the furniture back. I’ll have to clean each chair as it goes back in - Roxy got her grubby fingers on most of them at some point… Beyond that, who knows?
So that’s my exciting day ahead!
I use salt very sparingly, but I use more pepper. I don’t use ketchup at all. I do have a small bottle of Frank’s Hot Sauce on my table though.
Since buying my Bernina a few MMP threads ago, I have gone through a pile of scrap fabric to learn how to drive it. Included in the price of the machine are two three hour classes in how it all works. My first class is in two weeks. Yesterday I worked my way through one of Sunflower’s Block of the Month patterns. This is my first official machine sewn quilt block:
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy(ish) with a predicted high of 90 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. I was a slugabed until seven-thirty this mornin’. 
OYKW left a bit ago for a doc appointment. It’s a routine one that includes a visit with the vampires. I think we shall have some quality cee-mint pond time today bein’ as the weather is supposed to be so nice. Beyond that, the usual sloth and nappage shall also happen. Sup shall be country fried steak ‘n gravy, peas, butterbeans, ‘n okra cooked together, rice, squishes, and cornbread. This is due to a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for some down home cookin’.
I taste stuff before addin’ any kind of seasonin’. It is just wrong to do otherwise. Not a huge fan of most prepared sauces like steak or wazzizhere, and ketchup goes only on a burger or meatloaf. I season as I cook cause I want stuff to taste good.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
ETA: Hippie I am diggin’ on that pattern!
This is from Tijuana Flats restaurant in Ocala - not sure where else the restaurant can be found. Roxy calls it Sally Sauce! FCD likes it, but I’m not a fan.
And I’m very impressed with the quilt block! I’ve been sewing for more than 50 years, and I know I couldn’t do that… Well, maybe with a lot more discipline and patience than I currently possess I might get close. You do nice work!
I’m an unapologetic serial salter, so sue me. My saving grace is that I loathe ketchup on most any edible food. I also loathe strangers who ask me: “Aren’t you going to taste that first?” As my stepfather used to always ask my mother “Who’s eating this, you or me?”
Costco run today. I also need to go beat up on the body shop people. They’ve had the car for a week for a bumper replacement. When I last called they said they were waiting for some parts, but when I took it in they told me they already had the parts. Something’s rotten.
Breakfast this morning will be hashbrowns with chopped onions and peppers and a couple of fried eggs. And I’m gonna salt and pepper them, so chew on that!
I undersalt while cooking because Mr. brown prefers it that way. I then salt up my own plate after serving. In addition to black pepper, I keep a little dispenser of Japanese red pepper on the table. I like a little bit of heat, and the dry red pepper can stay on the table at room temperature without going off.
I like a bit of ketchup on my french fries or meatloaf, but Mr. brown hates it.
I’ve drunk up my tea and am about to go clean up the kitchen. I made shrimp and andouille gumbo for dinner last night and the aftermath is still there. On the upside, we have leftover gumbo for tomorrow night’s dinner.
At work, today will see the addition of another attorney to the herd I already serve. That’ll be six attorneys in all - ack. I think they’re trying to encourage me to retire my ass, already. I’m happy to oblige - in about February of 2023, if all goes well. Stock market, stop your ridiculous plunging up and down! Mostly, stop plunging down!
Seasoning depends on the food. I’m a salt and pepper kinda ga, occasionally go mad with Lowry’s seasoned salt, and must have ketchup for Tater Tots. Respectable chefs say put seasoning on before you cook so if I’m cooking from scratch I obey orders.
Going to the chiro and gym today and my goal is to clean the kitchen. A particular black cat is shedding and there are tumbleweeds here and there.
My ex husband’s wife, you know, the one he left me for, died. I don’t feel bad for him. Is there room in the hand basket for me?
Oooo! We’ve got one in Fishers, IN, and one in Noblesville, IN.
What is this table thing you speak of? At home I usually eat at the desk or while watching TV on the sectional; I do have a perfectly serviceable breakfast nook table which currently is buried under charging devices and soccer caps. But I do tend to salt my French fries before eating, otherwise whatever goes on them during cooking is good enough for me.
Up early, have several things to get done today but it’s heading for 93F and no rain (at least until tomorrow) so will try and do most chores indoors.
hippie, nice work, looks like it should go on a Medieval Knight’s shield.
FCM, love the bottle.
Cookie, looks to me like they told you they had the part before actually laying eyes on it and now just hope you forgot that part of the conversation…go get 'em!!
Lucky, you’re herding six lawyers in the office; I’m herding ten 9-years olds on the soccer field–hard to say which of us has the tougher job… 
Wet one, we’ll just move doggio to his own private den in the handbasket to make room for you.
OK, need to doing the morning rounds on the internets and then make like a productive human bean. All y’all have a good week now.
Don’t be surprised if he reaches out & contacts you.
Mornin’ all. Slept in til almost 8:30, oops. Good thing I did some irk yesterday and went to the site where I’m supposed to be installing this week. They’re not ready for me yet. The floors are still being finished.
And agree with the tasting of things before salting/peppering. Except one place I go to lunch where I know the burger will need salt.
Thanks all. The pattern was titled “Monkey Wrench” I think there are ten more in the series. This was a “Block of the Month” series at a quilting shop that has since closed up. I will move on to the next block soon.
Agreed. I’d rather not oversalt something that the cook got right to begin with. Not that big a pepper fan, so I’m very unlikely to add that at the table.
Things like ketchup, steak sauce, soy sauce, etc. (not a mustard fan, either) I’ll apply lightly (after tasting, or unless I was the cook and know I’ll want that additional flavor) almost at seasoning levels. Just want that added flavor and possibly moisture, don’t want to get gunk all over my face or dripping onto clothing when I take a bite. This is why I still dislike the idea of eating at Carl’s Jr. All those years of commercials boasting about how horribly messy and sloppy their food is left me a bit repulsed.
Croutons can add some nice extra texture to things like salads. So can wonton strips, almond bits, or sunflower kernels.
I approve this message!! Our annuities are only partially invested in the market, but it’s enough that they’ve lost a chunk of change. Fortunately, we don’t need to touch them yet since pension and SS is providing us a comfortable retirement. We have another account that’s longer-term, so more in the market, and it got bit badly. However, it’s for the grands’ education fund and we should need to touch it for another 13-14 years. We? I should say my daughter won’t be touching it as we may not live that long…
I have reassembled the dining room. Did you feel the disturbance in The Force? I ironed!!! I also cleaned all the chairs, removing far too many Roxy food-laden hand prints. And I changed the tablecloth and placemats. It’ll look nice for a couple of days anyway.
Next on the agenda is the kitchen. But I took a fresh-local-peach break. OMG, the peaches from the local farm have been amazing this year! I’m sorry I didn’t make any peach jam, but frankly, I’m just not in the mood for all the associated mess. I’ll probably live to regret it.
Another agenda item - transplanting the snake plant. The planter it’s in has split (it’s plastic and more than 40 years old, so no surprise) and I bought a replacement months ago. Just gotta find it, and the bag of potting soil. That should make for an adventure. Oh, and I should throw a load of towels in the washer - it’s a good day for hanging clothes out!
One nice thing about FCD being away - I get to park in the middle of our 2-car garage! It’s the little things, right? A not-so-nice thing about him being away is that the house makes lots of sounds when I’m here alone. OK, it probably makes those sounds all the time, but I don’t hear them.
OK, off to the laundry room with me…
Buddy just came in from his early-morning adventuring (still working on getting him to stay in more) with a DRAGONFLY in his mouth. It was badly enough wounded that just releasing it was not an option, so I gave it a mercy flush. According to DH, dragonflies are very hard to catch. A certain orange cat is apparently quite a good hunter. I’m just glad he didn’t bring us a snake. My throat already hurts, and I’m sure building management would rather not deal with noise complaints from the neighbors because of the screaming.
I’ve been very lazy about making and freezing mini-frittatas for breakfast, so for a while I’ve been having a sausage patty with an over-easy egg on toast. Only, we’re out of eggs. I’ll have to go to the corner market when it opens in about 15 minutes. Tomorrow is a commuting day, so I’ll get a couple of sausage logs from a gas station on the way into irk