[The Next Great Countertop Appliance]

Looks stupid.

 

HOWEVER the Rotimatic looks great.

[Top Rated US Supermarkets]

We have a Mexican Supermarket near me, Super Gigante. I go there often. Last time I went the bakery tortured me.

[Top Rated US Supermarkets]

Ginat Food Stores <<This is a typo. It should read Giant Food Stores.

 

I truly believe GIANT is the best all around supermarket.

It never smells, all the stores are clean and consistent and the produce is always fresh.

 

I dont believe Sams Club or Costco belong on this list since you cannot do REAL food shopping

 

[Garam Masala and Curry Powder Questions]

2 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I find the concept of a basic garam masala hard to get my mind around.

 

 

 

 

No fenugreek

 

 

[Garam Masala and Curry Powder Questions]

1 minute ago, Anna N said:

Hmmm.   I think you will find that it frequently does appear.  Since it basically means nothing more than “a warm spice mixture” it can vary regionally and personally with each family developing its own particular blend. 

 

Ive been watching hundreds of Indian cooking videos for years and they NEVER add fenugreek to their Garam Masalas. Maybe other Masalas, yes, but not the basic Garam.

Our USA Curry Powder has a distinct scent thats all fenugreek.

[Garam Masala and Curry Powder Questions]

On 8/25/2013 at 11:26 AM, Shel_B said:

This has been on my mind for quite some time: What's the difference between garam masala and curry powder? They seem to have many of the same ingredients.

Can they be used interchangeably, or do they each have specific uses? Sometimes I see recipes that call for both garam masala and curry powder.

Since garam masala and curry powder sometimes have the same ingredients, and because there are so many recipes for each, how does one choose the appropriate blends for a particular dish if it calls for using both? It seems that, with the same ingredients in some blends, an excess, or too little, of a particular spice is possible. Are there some curry blends that go better with some garam masala blends?

Thanks!

 

 

Garam Masala usually doesnt have Fenugreek

[Confession Time: Share Your Culinary "Sins"]

Sometimes Ill mix almond butter with softened butter and eat it on a spoon.

 

Once, during a week of a cold, I let 2 packages of chicken breasts go bad, so I loaded them in a ziploc bag and took em to a outlying part of Valley Forge Park

walked behind some trees and dumped it, for the vultures and carrion feeders to eat. I then went to Phoenixville real quick and on the way back the cops and park rangers were there. @gfweb

 

And Ill shiv a b**** for my Jumbo Eggs

 

 

[One Click Butter Cutter]

50 minutes ago, gulfporter said:

We live in Central Mexico....too many critters to leave food out overnight.  I do that in the US but only in the winter.   

 Even in the kitchen?

 

I leave a stick out at all times. nothing ever gets into it, ever. Even the ants, moths or Box Elders.

[Gochujang]

For anyone who has purchased Gochujang from Wegmans you have ME personally to thank.

My area has a great deal of Koreans and Korean Baptist churches and I told them its something

that they should carry. They did. I have gotten 20 companies Wegmans contracts. Yay me.

[One Click Butter Cutter]

Okay I cant deal with this...Is this a spoof post?

Are we being silly here?

 

Gulfporter, look just leave the butter in a butter dish on the table and use a knife in the morning.

 

lol

[One Click Butter Cutter]

Wouldnt this smash the English Muffin if the butters hard from the fridge? I can understand this if its used on hot mashed taters, but not toast.

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

So silken tofu is 4 gms protein per serving and extra firm is 9 gms protein per serving.

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

I bought silken tofu. Im gonna puree it with water and coffeemate creamer powder, see if its good.

[What's your favorite chocolate, and why?]

I really love Lilys sugarfree Original...

[Who thought apricot kernels made a great snack?]

Okay, heres my take. I think bans on food are ridiculous..

 

If you buy steak and raw eggs from Dollar Tree expecting to chop it up and make Steak Tartar and survive, you are a dumbass.

 

All these warnings are ridiculous! Its like having a natural crack in your sidewalk from tree roots and having someone trip and fall and sue you. WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING!

 

If you are a dumbass and eat apricot kernels by the bag and you start feeling ill, maybe you should look at the bag? My local healthfood store sells em behind the counter FYI.

 

Let Haggis and Konnyaku free!

[Food Funnies]

Just FYI I got my Jumbo eggs today. no arguments.

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

1 hour ago, pastrygirl said:

 

OK, according to whom?

 

I understand that sugars and starches are made of the same stuff, and some starches may be as quickly metabolized as sugars, but in practical use (at least my experience in baking and confections) maltodextrin is not a sugar or sugar substitute.  If it doesn't taste like sugar or act like sugar in cooking, why do you consider it sugar?  And have you contacted the manufacturer about it?  If their nutrition labels really are wrong, they should want to know.

 

I'll check my FDA labeling guide and see what they say about sugars and total carbohydrates, but that'll take a minute ...

 

 

 

I looked up Maltodextrin Nutritional Labeling....

1 teaspoon is 3.81 gm carbs 3 of which are sugars

 

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/generic/maltodextrin

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

7 hours ago, pastrygirl said:

How do you think it should have been labeled, with the starches listed as sugars instead of under total carbohydrates? 

 

Is it sweet?  18 grams of granulated sugar in a cup of milk would be pretty sweet, that's 1-1/2 TB.  Modified food starch is made from bland carbs like wheat, potatoes, and tapioca, sounds like a pretty basic carbohydrate to me.

 

https://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/featured-articles/modified-food-starch-demystified/

 

 

 

 

 

It tastes like regular whole milk. The Maltodextrin is supposed to be counted as sugar carbs though. The bread  I eat has less carbs.

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

I dont want them to stop making the soy milk cause its heavenly!

Which is why I dont wanna name it. But clearly the nutritional list is bollocks.

What is the recourse here? Write to the company?

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

So I can make reconstituted Coffeemate original for less carbs and calories?

 

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

2 Tablespoons of Maltodextrin is 26 gm carbs and 108 cals AND all 26 of those are sugars...

This labeling cannot be true.

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

Just now, pastrygirl said:

 

Ah.  So this is a powdered version - 2TB of soy milk powder plus liquid to make a serving?

 

Yes

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

Just now, pastrygirl said:

 

Interesting.  Haven't bought much soy milk, would not have guessed that it needs to be re-constituted.

 

I wrote that wrong the liquid version was ready to drink

 

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

Just now, FauxPas said:

And 90 calories seems awfully high for 2 Tbsps of soy milk.

 

 

Yeah something isnt right... Its so good though

[Anything odd about these carb counts to you?]

1 minute ago, pastrygirl said:

 

*Less than* 1 gram sugar ...

 

The FDA doesn't require nutrition labeling for all the different kinds of carbohydrates.  The new version being phased in has total sugars and added sugars, but not different forms of sugars.  Is this like a coffee creamer?  If the serving size is 2 TB, they're not expecting you to drink it by the glass, and the maltodextrin and food starch ought to make it pretty thick.  I don't know what exactly modified food starch is - nutritionally akin to cornstarch or wheat flour, maybe?  I'd consider those pretty straightforward, simple carbs.

 

Its not coffee creamer its soy milk, it used to be sold in liquid form in UHT boxes. 2 T per 8 oz water. It does not get thick.