Vanilla Salt

I pod—do you? 

So often recipes only call for the vanilla seeds, while the entire pod is edible. You can use spent vanilla pods to get a fragrant salt from something that otherwise may have been destined for the compost pile. Use Vanilla Salt on cakes, cookies, fresh fruit, and my favorite: sliced tomatoes.

Ingredients

1 vanilla bean

1 cup flake salt

Directions

1. Leave vanilla bean out on counter for a couple of days to dry.
2. In food processor or spice grinder, process bean until fine. Stir into salt.