recent meal highlights

[kismet09]

Handmade spinach pasta with tomato sauce made from scratch with tomatoes picked the day before
Panini with same fresh tomatoes and basil, and buffalo mozzarella, with fancy olive oil
Quinoa mango salad with curry vinaigrette
Cucumber "noodles" with lime-soy dressing, peanuts and mint
Crepes with fresh blueberry sauce and nutella (nutella makes everything better)

tonight will be Chicken Korma and Malai Kofta (we did cheat and buy the naan at the store)
tomorrow i'll do something with the pork shoulder that i got from my meat CSA

Comments

[melismatic1.livejournal.com]

Nutella is one of the best foods ever invented. I let my children eat it for breakfast everyday. I figure, it's made from nuts, and chocolate is loaded with antioxidants, and if they eat it on whole grain toast they are doing WAY better than those kids who get PopTarts handed to them on the way to the bus stop.

Nutella ingredients: 20.4% Hazelnut/cocoa

[satireblank.livejournal.com]

I didn't know much about Nutella, I looked up the ingredients.
But maybe on whole wheat still better than poptarts?

http://www.productwiki.com/nutella/

13% + 8.7% + 7.4% = 29.1% so is the bulk of that 70.9% sugar/oil?
(Vanillin is an artificial flavor.)

Ingredients
sugar
vegetable oil
hazelnuts (13%)
skim milk powder (8.7%)
fat-reduced cocoa powder (7.4%)
soy lecithin emulsifier
vanillin flavoring

Re: Nutella ingredients: 20.4% Hazelnut/cocoa

[melismatic1.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm....sugar....

I'm sure a thin layer on whole grain bread is not unhealthy. Or I will tell myself that. I used to bake things like soy flour banana bread with wheat germ to feed my children. But then I got a job and got lazy about nutrition. (They are still very healthy and have never had cavities in their 8 and 9 years!)

Re: Nutella ingredients: 20.4% Hazelnut/cocoa

[satireblank.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your post on Nutella - I had heard about it but I didn't know anything until now. It is huge in Europe!

I will make my own version of Nutella and see how it tastes:
Hazelnut butter and cocoa are mandatory.
I will experement with skim milk and soy milk.
It looks like vanilla flavor is needed (natural of course.)
Maybe I will try adding honey, molassas, or even pure cane sugar.
For a health bonus, I will see if ground up flaxseeds can be added without impacting the taste or texture.

This will be fun!

-Joe

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

nutella is definitely an any meal sort of food.