Tartlets with nectarines and raspberries and eating nuts to control Type 2 diabetes

Salmon pasta salad with toasted sesame seeds and crispy skin

Food Diary (July 12, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with toasted coconut and sunflower seeds

Lunch: Salmon pasta salad with toasted sesame seeds and crispy skin

Dinner: Sautéed cauliflower and tomatoes with rye sourdough, pickled unripe apple salad, muesli

Baking/sweets:

The salmon lunch was really awesome, probably one of the best salmon meals I ever had. It was really plain and simple. There was no sauce, just good salmon cooked well. It is often said that in cooking skill counts for only 35 percent of the quality of the dish while the quality of the ingredients accounts for the remaining 65 percent. I don’t know whether it really is 65% and 35% but the quality of the ingredient is really important. I remember the last salmon I had, it had seen sitting in the refrigerator for a while, a very long while. The salmon was nice but nowhere as nice as the salmon I had today. The pasta was nice too.

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: Cioccolato Gatto

Tartlets with nectarines and raspberries (tartaletki z nektarynkami i malinami)

Today’s Favourite Blog

Source: Science Daily

Eating nuts every day could help control Type 2 diabetes and prevent its complications, according to new research from St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. Consuming two ounces of nuts daily as a replacement for carbohydrates proved effective at glycemic and serum lipid control for people with Type 2 diabetes.

I wonder if eating sweets such as snickers or halva which is loaded with nuts offsets the consumption of sugar the sweets contain. The research did not have answers to such questions.