Clodfobble foodblogs

[Clodfobble]

Not too curious at all; I do my best to shut up about food because I know it's a pretty major facet of my life. (Not a millstone around my neck, I keep telling myself, a facet of my life. Anyhoo...)

What I'm listing is just me and my food. The kids are on a very specialized regimen right now, with almost no variety. (Actually, there's been a lot of healing in the last six months, and they're just recently starting to ease back into a few fruits without a return of symptoms, so fingers crossed--but that's another story.) Mr. Clod usually skips breakfast.

Greek yogurt is just regular cow's milk yogurt that has been strained an extra time, and sometimes had more salt added. The straining removes more of the liquid portion of the milk, so the result is higher in protein (because it took more milk to make it) and lower in carbs/sugar (because the lactose is in the liquid, whch is being removed.) The result is less sweet to begin with, since there's less lactose, and then the added salt is just kind of a cultural flavoring thing, I think.

Goat yogurt starts with goat's milk, which has a very different nutritional profile from cow's milk. Just one comparison: cow's milk is roughly 86% casein (a protein people can have problems digesting,) while goat's milk is 2%. Human breastmilk is far more similar to goat's milk than cow's milk. Other than that, it's prepared the same way. Pasteurize the goat's milk, add in the good bacteria cultures, let them ferment. Grocery-store yogurts of either animal usually skip most of the fermentation and add thickeners--like chicory, inulin, guar gum, that sort of thing--because it's cheaper and faster than letting the bacteria thicken the yogurt the old-fashioned way. On the other hand, even the dirty hippies have limits to their patience, so a 24-hour ferment is the most you're likely to find from a local farm, and the result is still more drinkable than eatable.

Also, goat's milk is very tart, like goat cheese. Hence the honey to sweeten it.



And while we're at it:

10:00 AM - a pear, and several swigs of chocolate almond milk. I'm the only one in the house who drinks it, and I'm a busy woman, so yes, I just drink it out of the carton. Sue me.