Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025

Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> writes:

On 1/31/2025 8:10 PM, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> writes:
 

On 1/31/2025 5:57 PM, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> writes:
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A pasta [...]

I haven't had that years---too much gluten.  And it seems it's late
for
me.  Once you quit it good, there's no going back.
>

Anything cooking at your house this Friday evening?

Only heated up what was left over from lunch. :)

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I'm not worried about gluten.  I don't know what you had for lunch.

Pretty much nobody is.
 

I know there are some people who are gluten intolerant.  Celiac
Disease.   I'm not one of those people.

I can't say I'm gluten intolerant, but I definitely detect any food with
gluten if I eat more than a tiny amount.

Sorry---for lunch it was rice with beans on top with a couple pieces of
meat, a water banana, a bit of cabbage and a piece of yam.  I think that
was it.  The meat cut was ``muscle meat'', which is a cheap but very
nutricious and lean.
 

Sounds interesting.  I think in the US it could be any cut of very
lean beef.  Possibly known as flap meat, skirt steak.  I'm guessing,
of course.  I have no idea what is sold in Brazil. :)

The web seems to say that flap meat is not the same as muscle meat.
Muscle meat---at least the one I buy here in Brazil---is a type of meat
that's rich in colagen and very lean---meaning very much fat free.  If
there's one thing that's not easy is to find the same meat you get in
country in another.  For instance, I've never found ``picanha'' in the
US, but it's pretty much the most important cut you can find in Brazil.
``Filet mignon'' will be the most expensive, second only to ``picanha'',
but ``picanha'' is my preferred one.

At dinner, I also added a bit of ``farofa'', which is a Brazilian name
for a dish made of roasted cassava flour.  It's usually mixed with meats
or scrambled eggs, onion, garlic... Mine was just onions and garlic, but
I prefer it with eggs and some meat mixed in.  It was actually a bit
salty, but that's alright once in a while.
 

I'm also not opposed to salt.  It is a key ingredient in bringing out
the flavor in many recipes.  Food cooked without salt is bland.  Of
course, over-salting can ruin a very good meal.
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I will never cook a beef steak without first sprinkling salt on it and
letting it set for a while.  Same thing with hamburgers.

Same here.  I hardly ever eat a hamburger because they usually come on a
bun (full of gluten).  But, of course, I'd love to have them on a
tapioca starch pancake or something like that.  The problem is that
restaurants never really offer them.  I figure they're more expensive
and people always prefer the cheapest thing?

What I don't like much is salty rice.  Rice is so good---should be never
be salty.

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I don't eat a lot of rice.  But, IMHO, a *little* salt in the cooking
water is essential.  Salt enhances; if it overwhelms the taste of the
rice someone added too much.

I totally agree.  Rice with no salt---although I wouldn't mind it in an
emergency---is not the way to go.  Cooking requires a certain accuracy
and precision, I think.  I'm no cook at all---at all!---, but it turns
out often I prefer my own than even professional's.  Perhaps my
preferences are a bit idiosyncratic.

 It's funny.  When I was younger, I would never make any food
comments, but these days I'm highly sensitive to what I eat and so I
have a bunch of comments during the meal.  It all started with quitting
suggar and coffee...  I've never been the same.
>

I don't use much sugar in any of my cooking.  I never was a huge fan
of coffee so it was easy enough to stop drinking it.

Great---take the opportunity and stay away from it.  It is a drug like
any other, no matter what our cultures might say.

Is there any good that you eat and can feel it's not doing you much good?

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Not really.  I'm not lactose intolerant, no gluten sensitivity, not
worried about carbs.  I can eat pretty much anything I want and feel
just fine.  Everything in moderation. :)

I, on the other hand, I can't drink too much milk either, so I just
don't drink it at all.  But I drank a lot of milk while growing up.
Perhaps because I decided to quit it for a long time I can't come back
to it anymore?  A cup will go fine, but not a cup every day, for
example.  So I just don't insist.

I have no problems with carbs or anything else.  What I need to pretty
much never take is just sugar, gluten, milk.  And I stay away from oils
based on soy as well.  (I have no interest in canola oil either.)  On
nutrition, I always go for the very safe routes.

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By the way, sorry about my delay, but I really gotta go slow here.
Otherwise USENET takes over my life.