Add salt to taste!

Salt. Add salt to taste!
This is where my vision of the universe is dwarfed by inexperience!
I know I am no gourmet chef…but if I cook, I ought to know how much salt is supposed to go into the stuff I am cooking. But I don’t! And I end up making nasty food! Imagine the worst food…the kind you that not only makes you leave it on the plate but also makes you leave the restaurant as well. And then imagine that with too much or too little salt. Yes, I can always use a salt shaker…that’s what its for innit? But tell me…how do you feel if you dressed up real sharp only to look at lousy bamboozle staring back at you from the mirror? Sure…you can always change…that’s what other clothes are for innit?
And then there is the problem of too much salt. Here’s how the problem generally goes…you get all excited that you’re gonna cook something special and go on and do the most loathsome activity (read grocery shopping!) ever. You buy each and every ingredient given on the recipe…hoping that your taste buds will make it all worthwhile. You follow the recipe step by step till you hit an obstacle…”Add salt to taste”. Bam! I’m hit and sunk! Then I either end up coping up with the recipe with a heavy heart or going for the take out option. Adding less salt in while cooking doesn’t really agree with me. If I take that first bite and grimace…it ruins my appetite. And all these different foods seem to have some darn “salt absorbency” coefficients or something so there is no sacred ratio!
Having said all this…if there were a spectrum that extended from no salt, to optimum salt and to the Dead Sea…I would say that I am coming in from the right…progressing slowly towards the optimum salt point. Which is good news! Okay, now that my lunch and my badgering is all done… I gotta go pay some bills…