photo by ashley at notwithoutsalt.com

In more recent years, I’ve become a salt fiend.  I don’t know why the sudden change, and didn’t realize it until every margarita order was specified with, “Please make it heavy on the salt.”  I used to chastise my father for adding salt to everything, making sour/grossed-out faces every time he added his favorite seasoning to a dish.  Salt, to me, was something that tasted “icky.”  What can I say, I had (and have) a perpetual sweet tooth in my youth.

However, my love of salt has become recently apparent, and I am always searching out savory-sweet recipes that incorporate a little sel in their making.  A recent recipe hunt caused me to stumble upon Not Without Salt, a blog by a pastry chef named Ashley, which celebrates all things salt-ified.  Her photography (which is always what draws me into any blog) is exquisite, and her recipes, inspiring.  A recent post about Bacon Caramels made its rounds through my office, where co-workers and I equally drooled and marveled at the combination.  Knowing how much I love Salted Caramels, I just might have to give these a shot…