Muesli wine, chocolate banana cake and food and cocaine addiction

Broiled cured salmon with polenta

Today's Food Diary

Breakfast: Muesli

Lunch: Broiled cured salmon with polenta

Dinner: Muesli, pickled carrots

Baking/sweets:

Sometimes when cooking I add random ingredients that either I see lying around or which appear in my mind. And this is how ginger and white wine mingled with my polenta. Polenta with ginger was nice. Just wine and polenta might have been nice but wine together with ginger didn’t do any miracles. The ginger overpowered the wine so it was basically a waste of wine. More wine, or reduced wine might have worked better.

This 'food innovation' continued. During dinner I decided to add white wine to my muesli, together with milk. This was good, though I don’t plan to change my breakfast habits. The good thing about using wine in ‘raw’ form is that the alcohol remains so it is like having a glass of wine while eating muesli, except there is one less item to wash. And even better, this could be a healthy and effective hangover remedy, to complement other remedies I discussed here! And it could end up encouraging adults to eat more muesli. Now that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Today's Favourite Photo

Source:  Gourmet Estorie

Chocolate banana cake

Today’s Favourite Blog

Huffington Post

Certain foods are addictive, and these foods affect the same areas of the brain that cocaine addiction affects, according to a recent study. In other words the addiction of certain foods and cocaine are comparable. Considering that cocaine and other drugs are very addictive, this poses a challenge for those addicted to certain foods.

While the study did not specify the types of foods, chocolate milkshakes were used in the research. The study also found that the addiction is more profound in woman.

Now I understand why it is so difficult to stop eating certain foods once you start.