The clean eating marathon continues! Here’s today’s meal:
Zucchini noodles with grape tomatoes and pesto sauce. The salad is a bit more adventurous. It’s shaved fresh asparagus with lemon and olive oil and shaved pecorino. It’s supposed to have toasted pine nuts, too, but I thought that with the pesto it would be too much pine nuts. Instead, I just put in some crushed garlic. The beverage is one of those drinking vinegars that I never tried before. The idea here is to try new things.
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Pine nuts taste like soap, at least to me.
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Not good ones / ones kept correctly.
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You actually use a separate salad fork and dinner fork for your meals at home? Impressive!
(I only have four forks in my entire house.)
The meal looks/sounds delicious, but the portions seem awfully small. Or do you have turkey legs off-screen like with your previous “clean eating” meal?
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I had an apple and some sunflower seeds for dessert. I’m very virtuous. 🙂
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How do you make those noodles — I want a Cuisinart with all the blades but am afraid I only need a mandoline.
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I have a spiralizer. It’s a cheap manual thing with three different blades. Works great and doesn’t need a socket, which is always great.
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Does the spiralizer also make pesto? I make it in the blender but have a theory that a food processor, with a broader bowl, would work better.
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Also, I think the spiralizer is a modern version of this, https://www.thespruce.com/antique-meat-grinders-flea-market-bargains-1908304 … which I have from my grandmother. I should test it, see if it will make these zucchini noodles!!!!
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It will make zucchini mush. Zucchini pasta is thin stripes of intact zucchini; to get spagghetti-like ones like in Clarissa’s pic you need a mandoline, but zucchini tagliatelle can be easily achieved with a potato peeler
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That’s what I was afraid of. So I need a potato peeler and a mandoline, and not a spiralizer? Or all three, and forget the electric food processor?
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It depends on the goal. I wanted the spiralizer because I was spending a fortune on store-spiralized vegetables and they are not very hygienic. Now I can get vegetables at the farmers market and spiralize whenever I want. But not everybody is into these spiralized vegetables as much as I am.
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I am heavily. I want spiralized carrot salad and spiralized vegetables to sauté. I also want cabbage sliced for coleslaw, and vegetables diced and chopped for ratatouille. If it were not so tedious to do all the chopping, I would have coleslaw, ratatouille, carrot salad and vegetable pasta spirals every day, as well as thinly sliced cucumber salad, both in vinegar and in yogurt. So it is mandoline and/or spiralizer and/or Cuisinart. The Cuisinart is the most comprehensive but it is a serious investment and I have been procrastinating buying it for decades now. The spiralizer is easier to face buying.
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For me it’s the cleaning and the assemblage. I know I won’t use it if I have to spend time on putting it together and taking it apart all the time. Plus, there’s the issue of the counter space.
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So food processors have major cleaning and assemblage issues … hmmm … to take into consideration, yes.
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The pesto was store bought. The spiralizer only spiralizes. It’s a very cheap, primitive thing but that’s it’s charm. It’s not a hard thing to use or clean.
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I think it will do the things I want the Cuisinart for.
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I’ve never even heard of drinking vinegar – I suppose it’s diluted and sweetened? Now that I think about it, being sweet and not too sour, proper balsamic vinegar should be easily turnable in some sort of vinegar lemonade – just add cold sparkling water!
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It’s a new dietary craze. Vinegar is supposed to help weight loss and lower blood sugar.
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I thought it was just certain vinegars?
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