Monday, December 04, 2006

Things I've learned from my wife about food.

Here's just a list of a few things I've learned and know about food. All things I've seen my wife do or learned from my wife. The accuracy of any statement is very suspect due to the fact that the details Cherity quotes are lost on a husband who isn't AS interested in this as she.

  • Kiefer is made from Fermented Milk and some sort of starter bacteria. There's always a mason jar with a loose fit top sitting on our counter for such purposes. Cherity has to strain out this cauliflower looking thing when pouring kiefer. I think uses the cauliflower thing to start a new batch of the stuff. kiefer essentially tastes like plain yogurt. (hmm.. the spell checker didn't pick up on kiefer being a word..? Yeah I had never heard of it before either)
  • Steel cut oats are like oatmeal but better for you in some way...? Different consistency though.
  • You can't buy raw milk but you can buy a share of a farm and get paid dividends in whole, raw milk.
  • Coconut oil is a solid below the temperature of 85 deg. (approx)
  • Sourdough bread comes from a starter. Kind of like Amish bread. There is always a Ziploc bag in the fridge with some sort of batter in it for just this purpose. Not sure how it works.
  • Grass fed beef has the proper ratio of Omega 3's and 6's and having a diet of an incorrect ratio of these two Omega's is bad. Apparently large Beef farms that have hormone pumped cattle that live in their own feces have a ratio that is way off. Bad, bad, bad...
  • There's a certain omega that is really good for you that is in abundant supply within an egg. Scratch that! Free range eggs have an abundant supply. Those big buildings that hold thousands of chickens... yeah, those eggs don't have or have hardly any omega #'s. in them. Free range eggs definitely taste "eggier"(or maybe it's just the brown eggs...?).

The things my wife knows about the health of food is mind boggling, sometimes interesting, and sometimes depressing and sometimes I don't care and eat a frozen pizza and drink a mountain dew or three.

No comments: