Top 10 Tuesday

Kat's Top 10 Cooking Tips

10. Drizzle toasted sesame oil as a finishing oil over cooked vegetables

9. Crunchy stuff breakfast bowl: granola, yogurt, peanut butter, chopped fruit, a glob of each

8. Chopped shallots with tomatoes, lemon and herbs make a healthy homemade dressing sans oil

7. Pouch cook chicken or fish (no clean up, no oil, all-in-one succulent meal)

6. Overnight oatmeal

5. Anything goes in a salad

4. Sangria for the beach (load chopped fruit into a cheap boxed wine the night before and go!)

3. When in doubt, brine it

2. Read Laura Hall's blog: The Good Life

1. Pink Himalayan Sea Salt everything!

You've already heard how invaluable my niece, Kathryn, has made herself since moving in. She brined and cooked our best-ever Thanksgiving turkey so I may just let her repeat that recipe for Christmas. Wanting to share the wealth with you here.

"Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. Proverbs 9:4-6

Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings. Leviticus 2:12-14