@DCUKMod[/USER] re skyr, odd! Mine is a brand called Siggi’s, and the type I buy is full-fat, with the label of “Icelandic Style Yogurt”. Its ingredients are milk and 5 live bacteria cultures. Tastes like yogurtonly richer, tangier, and more like I remember yogurt from the 70’s. I looked up this quark cheese, and the image I saw looked nothing like what I eat, and has rennet in it?
@DCUKMod yeah, I’d read that article. The production method looks exactly how I learned to make yogurt in my hippy college days, with the addition of straining, and it seems rennet is optional. Is your skyr like chunks of feta cheese? (what the image I saw looked like) I saw on another thread you’re in SE Asia now- even your word for the thing that your OH is the main chef in came out in characters not letters! So what does your bfast yogurt taste like? Anything familiar?
Know what?I have an Icelandic friend - I’ll ask her what skyr was like 85 years ago when she was a little girl!
Edit to add: I think the food manufacturers *create* their customers’ tastes......
The Skyr/Quark I have had is like a set yoghurt, but with a very slightly, almost floury texture, or in fact, almost like a mousse. It probably would cut into slices or cubes, but it certainly isn't usually anywhere close to feta cheese in terms of firmness.
The other thing about Quark is it is usually marketed as low fat, high protein, so that might influence, depending on personal requirements.
Yes, I'm in SE Asia, and deliberately deployed Google translate to find me the Thai for "house". Clever thing Google traanslate, but they don't support photo-recognition yet for the Thai language.
The breakfast yoghurt was very sweet and had a slight coconut flavour to it. I haven't yet found a truly unsweetened yoghurt yet, but it's early days and there are so many other options for brekkers, I'm not going to spend my life looking for the specific when there are very acceptable alternatives out these. This morning's brekkers was a chuck of of a sharp, hard cheese, a chunk of local cucumber, for the bite, and a local tomato.
We have plenty eggs, there are all manner of sausages, and lots of pork products around, so I'm really not going to go in the least hungry, or under-nourished.
Yes, processed food is formulated specifically for the country it is sold in. Take care if you buy products in pound shops and such like, it could have been sourced from another country.I initially thought Skyr was yoghurt, until I tasted it. It then reminded me of the Quark I'd eat in Germany, so I looked it up. This is what Wiki has to say about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyr
Perhaps the US "recipe" is slightly different to that which we have in UK. It's amazing how the sneaky food manufacturers alter things to suit their local market's tastes.
This was my breakfast yoghurt the other day:
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It was packaged very much in the style of Danone Plain yoghurt, but was actually very sweet.
I'm sort of sussing the local labelling,............... a tiny bit!
Hi @Goonergal, I make lots of bone broth as my butcher sells me a carrier bag full of bones for 60p which does 3 to four lots.Hi all. Looking for some bone broth advice. Never made it before but now I have a slow cooker thought I would try it. Looking for bone to liquid ratio.
Have accumulated a few bones from last weekends short rib and lamb shanks. Have a bone-in sirloin tonight and short rib on Saturday so should have enough bones to get going on Sunday.
Editing to say also have a small piece of bone marrow in the freezer - add that too?
Any advice? Thanks.
08-02
7.28am Pre breakfast 5.1
Tea, Peanut porridge, made with .25 cup of oats, .5 cup milk, 4 teaspoons peanut butter, served with .25 cup milk. Money saving it might be, but far too few calories@283, 25g carbs. Possibility of serving with cream? Probably too much fat for tummy to cope with. Maybe increase oats slightly to 33g? If BG still good. That wont help a lot though. Don't want to be on cheese or bacon as well, no point in low cost breakfast that needs a more expensive accompaniment.
8.15am Not sitting happily in tummy either, this experiment is a failure
8.28am 1 hour after breakfast BG 8.2 Double failure.
Forgot to do exercises, as planned 30 mins after meal. Did this contribute to spike?
9.29am 2 hour after meal 6.9
Am now wondering if all my previous "good" results @ 2 hours after meal are coming down from a spike?
edited to add 2 hours result
May well have to invest in this! I love garlic!!! And spice!!! Sounds amazing!!!Ok, so I have a new addiction.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferns-Garlic-Pickle-380g/dp/B0043VUFJI
I just had a teasp of it, with prawns and mayo.
Heavenly.
It is a curried pickle, quite spicy, with tons of whole wee garlic cloves in it. You know, those little cloves you find in the middle of the bulb? Dyed orange from all those heavenly spices.
I now have a dragon-like fire breath made up of equal parts garlic and chili and residual fumes.
What else can I put it on?
And do you think i could OD?
I’m kind of guessing that having it by the spoon, might make Mr B complain. Unreasonable man.
Ok, so I have a new addiction.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferns-Garlic-Pickle-380g/dp/B0043VUFJI
I just had a teasp of it, with prawns and mayo.
Heavenly..
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