Sunday, May 12, 2013

Black Pudding Sausage Roll and Fat Makes you Sleep


Black Pudding Sausage Roll

Or you can call it black pudding wellington, it sounds more gourmet and complex! Its anything but complex. 

Making black pudding sausage roll is far easier than making regular sausage roll. You need 2 ingredients and get a delicious result with minimal effort. Though not so delicious if you don’t like blood sausage. The recipe is available here.

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Ricotta and spinach stuffed shells



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This sounds unusual. A study shows that eating higher amounts of fat is associated with increased daytime sleepiness. On the other hand eating more carbohydrates increased alertness. The findings were published in the online supplement of the journal SLEEP and to be presented at the annual SLEEP 2013 conference.

I think they will serve a low fat diet during the SLEEP conference to avoid participants from sleeping during the presentation!

The study researcher Dr. Alexandros Vgontzas from Penn State College of Medicine even goes on to say that excessive daytime sleepiness and fatigue “may have an impact on an individual’s ability to function and also public safety."

This finding comes as a bit of a surprise. I associated fat with fuel or energy, and associated omega-3 with positive effects on the brain. However I did notice that when I ate greasy food I felt a bit lazy. 

8 comments:

  1. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You have just made my day (probably the coldest May day I remember) with these sensational snacks! It's like seeing my favourite black pudding tart rolled into individual cute portions! I see black pudding so rarely on blogs... it is always a huge event! I'm also happy to be reminded I have black pudding soulmates in blogging world too :-) You bet I will copy your idea very soon!

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    1. Cold day in May? Here its been pretty good for the past couple of weeks, sunny most days and not cold. I have never heard of black pudding tart, sounds great too.

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    2. I think you have seen it http://www.withaglass.com/?p=7471 (tarte tatin with black pudding; a pure heaven).
      Today we are having a typical... October weather: rain, clouds and 13°C. Apparently it will continue for the rest of the week. You know, normally I sometimes wear here short sleeves in April...

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    3. Thanks for the link, I forgot about that. It was posted in 2011 - I've been reading your blogs for so long? Amazing. That version with apples, hot sauce etc sounds amazing.
      Here its 13C also, but no rain thankfully. Slight rain yesterday.

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  2. Interesting all of a sudden I thought it was the carbs that what make you sleepy. In Philippines it was a popular belief as we tend to be really sleepy after eating lots of rice.

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    1. Bloody researchers got it wrong again!!! In this case theory not equals practice:)

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  3. I love the look of those shells on Patricia's blog! :D

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    1. They are great, it motivated me to look for some shells

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