Bean sprouts omelet and Red Bull in Chechnya

Bean sprouts omelet with oat sourdough

Food Diary (July 19, 2011)

Breakfast: Missed

Lunch: Bean sprouts omelet with oat sourdough, rolled oats with raisins and bananas

Dinner: Pasta with mixed vegetables and white beans

Baking/sweets:

I do crazy things sometimes, sometimes more than sometimes! This afternoon I had two really important meetings and instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour, at 130 in the morning I decided to experiment with baking. First attempt was a 3-ingredient strawberry jam cupcake. Just 3 ingredients and cake mix was not one of the ingredients. In the past I came up with a 3-Ingredient Oatmeal Cookie and that was a resounding success. But not this time, the 3-ingredient cupcake was a disaster. The cake lacked texture, it was mushy and flat, it certainly didn’t ‘rise’ to the occasion. But I happily ate it. My second attempt was a 4 ingredient vanilla semolina cake and that was a success. An awesome cake with only 4 ingredients. Unfortunately I inadvertently deleted the photos so I will post the recipe when I made this again soon. And it will be soon.

That’s why I missed breakfast, eating cakes early in the morning is not a good habit.

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If you are under 18, love energy drinks and are planning to visit Chechnya, you may need to make some adjustments to your habits. Chechnya has banned the sale of energy drinks such as Red Bull to under 18s because they consider it as un-Islamic and dangerous. According to the deputy minister of health, Rukman Bartiyev, energy drinks are comparable to beer and they were harmful to health.

Other secular Muslim countries such as Iran have not banned Red Bull, not yet anyway. Chechnya has taken a stricter interpretation of the Sharia laws. With a population little over 1 million I don’t think Red Bull’s manufacturer would be particularly concerned with loss of sales.