During a stroll through the Ferry Building marketplace last Saturday, I couldn't resist buying a jar of Eatwell Farm Rosemary Salt. I was torn between that and Lavender Sugar, but know I can make scented sugar myself. As to the Rosemary Salt ... I have no idea what to do with it!

A Google search came up with lots of meat recipes, and recommendations for sprinkling it on grilled fish, prawns (I'm not sure about that one), fresh tomatoes, cooked potatoes and roasted vegies. Any other ideas?

Thanks!
Colleen

Hey Colleen - maybe we should do an exchange. I'll take some of your rosemary salt, and you can have some of the lavendar sugar Cathy T and I bought the day we went to Ferry Plaza for Jerry's GTG at Slanted Door - which I haven't yet used. (actually, I put it in the cupboard and forgot about it).

Guess those merchants know what they are doing. They tempt us into buying intriguing stuff -- then we have to figure out what to do with it. Smells good, though.

Judy

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They tempt us into buying intriguing stuff -- then we have to figure out what to do with it.

Absolutely true! I was also tempted by a vintage winery bottle holder from France in that cool kitchen antiques shop - but was afraid to look at the price.

Well, rosemay salt is salt + rosemary. (I have actually made some myself from dried roseary and corse sea salt a couple of days ago: put everything in the mortar and pounded toghether.) Use it anywhere where you would add salt and rosemary at the same time.

It would be great mixed with olive oil and then tossed with potatoes to roast.

Or mixed with olive oil and rubbed on pork, beef, or chicken prior to roasting. YUM

Here is my tuscan herb recipewhich is rosemary, sage, garlic and salt.

Where to use it?
it is our rub on meats to grill.
and warmed in olive oil and drizzled in your bean soup.

- on roast potatoes and veggies
-popcorn
-baked potato
-scrambled eggs
-bruschetta

it is addiciting!

Lamb!!!!

Colleen doesn't eat meat! So my recommendation of putting this on PORK will fall on deaf ears.

I'm thinking it would be good on roasted root veggies and you could use it in a summer veggie soup or stew.

It sure is good on pork though, if you decide to fall off the wagon.

Roasted potatoes are wonderful with rosemary and salt. But add some fresh sage too to make them perfect. I love Diva's recipe, which I learned at her class in Sonoma a few years ago.

Don't know about the salt, but how about using lavender sugar in this recipe?

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Colleen doesn't eat meat!

This is what I was thinking when I read all the meat rub suggestions.

I learned about this (non meat preference) after I brought stuff with meat to Colleen's home when I went for dinner before last year's SlowBowl.. Embarrassing.

Gloria - thanks for bringing the Flo Baker recipes to my attention. I brought my Chronicle in this a.m. and never even opened it!

Judy

This is good stuff!

Diva gave me the idea to make bruschetta with it, using up some olive bread from Acme Bakery and some fresh tomatoes from a neighbor. Heaven on a plate!

Thanks for the reminder of the Tuscan herb recipe - I only made it once after Diva's class at Ramekins. Must make it again!

Saturday I made fantastic peppers following a recipe from "Falling Cloudberries". Once cleaned and sliced in several pieces lenghtwise the peppers, first you fry them until soft (boring), then you marinate them with lots of rosemary (it should be fresh, but I had none so I pounded some dried rosemary to a poweder in the mortar to release the full flavor), a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of wine vinegar, a garlic clove that you leave whole but smash with your fist and EVO oil (I used a very flavorful Calabrese one). Best eaten after a couple of days.

I had a brilliant idea on how to use rosemary salt! Now tell me what you think.

With cooler temperatures (at least in the mornings and at night) I'm back to baking "No Knead Bread - Take Two."

What if ... I used rosemary salt in place of the the 1.5 tbsp. of kosher salt called for in the recipe - and then added some fresh rosemary? Any reason that wouldn't work?

Thanks!

Colleen

That sounds good. I love rosemary bread. There's a local bakery called the Bread Farm that has rosemary dinner rolls with rock salt on top. Another place has a BLT on toasted rosemary bread which is my current favorite sandwich, with the addition of avocado. I think this would be equally yummy without bacon as long as the tomatoes are in season and fresh from the garden.

I wonder how many salts are too many to have? My sister visited recently and made a comment about my assortment. I thought that I had maybe 6 - I had 12 but that includes margarita salt.

12! I just counted, and I have 6 - including margarita salt.

I haven't used the rosemary salt IN the bread recipe yet, but the last time I used the recipe I made foccacia, and I sprinkled the rosemary salt on top. Delish!

actually where ever you use salt, eggs, butter on toast etc.

I always use it with roasted veggies, in my bean soups!!!

A must in my kitchen! and it cuts down your salt intake as it has more flavor- you use less!

Just came back from sicily with MORE SALT