Red wine mash and new type of milk

Onion omelet with red wine mashed potato

Food Diary (July 11, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with bananas

Lunch: Onion omelet with red wine mashed potato

Dinner: Lentil and tomato spread with rye sourdough, muesli

Baking/sweets:

My lunch looks and sounds strange but luckily it did not taste strange. It tasted unusual but not strange. Instead of milk I used red wine to make mashed potato. There wasn’t enough milk at home but there was enough red wine, my priorities are certainly in the right place. Anyway the taste was good, even though there was certainly the raw wine flavor. Food having raw wine flavor can be unpleasant sometimes. In case you are brave enough to attempt this red wine mash, I think full bodied red wine would be more suitable. But don't use your most expensive bottle unless you are feeling generous.

I am guessing most people would still prefer mash with milk and a glass of red on the side, instead of wine in the mash. We have different tastes!

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Source: foodnews

There is an information overload. There is so much information on what food is good for us, which ones should be avoided, and those which can be either good or bad, depending on what you read. However this gives us ample opportunity to learn something new everyday.

Yesterday I learnt that strawberries were not berries while bananas and tomatoes were. Today the most interesting thing I learnt was the link between palm oil and milk. Yes there is a link.

Palm oil feed is widely used in Europe and in New Zealand. Removing palm oil from dairy cow diets improves the health of the cows and is better for the environment. And this is what British retailer, Marks and Spencer has done. They have introduced palm-oil-free milk. The company claims the new milk brand has six percent less saturated fat but actually tastes better.

When it comes to milk I used to think that I should be careful of chemicals such as pesticides and antibiotics. Now palm oil has sneaked into the picture. The good news is that palm oil free milk is not readily available in most countries so we don’t have a choice, that’s one less thing to worry about. I am sure it will appear in future, offering us more choices and more confusion!