Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Would You Rather? Salt & Pepper vs. Butter

Lets delve into the world of seasonings and spreads, those magical toppings that can make basic foods taste better.

Option #1: You can never add salt & pepper to your food.

Option #2: You can never add butter to your food.

Now keep in mind, we are NOT talking about using salt, pepper or butter in recipes, merely the use of them as a post prep/cooking additions. You can still eat food with these ingredients in the recipe, but, for example, you can never sprinkle salt and pepper on a plate of food at home, or in a restaurant, you can never spread butter on your bread or plop it on top of your mashed potatos etc. etc.

I think it goes without saying that you are NOT allowed to try and take a shortcut on this. “Butter” in this case includes margarine and any other spreadable fat made to be similar to butter. Likewise, you can’t use “sea salt”, white pepper, or some other shortcut to get around not being able to use salt and pepper.

What would you do? Please puts some comments..i'm still thinking about it.

2 comments:

Sarah V. said...

I don't use either too much. I'd miss butter on sweet corn though!

PH said...

Salt and Pepper definitely... The world would be a sad place if I could not get my salt fix... And hello mashed potatoes or whatever just add more butter to the recipe than it calls for... easy solution... so salt and pepper it is for me...