The White Stuff – Just Say NO to Salt
Clearly I’m partial to the odd pasty now and then – indeed stick a stonkin great big pasty in my hand and I’m a very happy muncher – grinning from ear to ear.
Imagine my alarm when a colleague of mine pointed to this article about salt in food which identifies pies and pasties as major culprits - sodium chloride evil pushers that raises blood pressure. here’s the evidence from Action On Salt
What’s a Muncher to do? Well some of the best advice I no follow is moderation in all things so in my opinion limiting the quantity of pasties I munch is well, quite frankly unfeasible.
Solution – make my own – that way I can hold the salt in both pastry and filling. I caught a link on TopBanana to this video http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-cornish-pasty which shows the process of pasty production being straightforward but to get the required mushy texture for the filling I guess I’ll need a blender or food processor.
Crikey I’b better beware – with this renewed interest in diet and health I could soon be on these cucumber smoothies
It’s time to roll up our sleeves and cook our own pasties from here on! No salt! No salt!
“Ambassador, with this unnecessary salt you are really spoiling us!”
It is so sad that we’ve come to an age where salt has become such a no no. I love salt. The saltier the better. After a night of popcorn, I will awaken to fingers that hurt when I try to close them and ankles that are quite plump. So I for one look for recipes that so no salt.
It all depends on what you were brought up on. I had very little salt as a child and don’t really like it now. The missus on the other hand covers ( and I mean covers ) every meal with the stuff. You can’t taste a thing. I suppose she’s slowly killing herself though!!!!
I have been a big eater of salt forever! The morton low fat, or salt substitute is actually far superior to other products just try it!
Apparantly it was the salt that did it for the ancient Egyptions – see http://www.blood-pressure-monitoring.org/blog/heart-disease-found-in-egyptian-mummies/