Aaron Hartman, MD shares a cooking rule: salt your food while cooking, not after, to marry flavors together. Skip the salt shaker at the table and use fresh herbs, pepper, and lemon instead. Cook broccoli al dente with olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon and parsley for a simple, flavorful dish.
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Salt is really important too. And it's not to where it tastes salty, right? Salt so that it brings flavors together and marries the flavors. So I do salt during cooking. I do not salt after. Like so you won't see a salt shaker typically on the dinner table. I know that's very common in restaurants and things like that. But it's salt should be done during cooking and you should be tasting your food while you're cooking. So those are the two basics for people who just need to make things taste good. And then I add on with things like pepper, red pepper flakes, Fresh herbs are my favorite because if you have fresh produce and you want to cook it, broccoli, olive oil, salt and pepper and fresh lemon, like maybe a little parsley. My God, that's so good. And it's so simple. If you cook it al dente, not mushy, you can make something so simple like that.