05-20-2008, 03:53 PM | #1 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
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Buckwheat: Food of the gods?
I've recently been reading about food I'm not eating but should be. Buckwheat is one of them. Buckwheat is not derived from wheat, nor is it a grain. It's actually a fruit seed related to rhubarb. With it you can make products such as noodles that are higher in protein than regular pasta, and they don't contain gluten. I stumbled across a recipe on whfoods.com, which is one of my favourite websites. It's a Japanese dish that uses soba noodles, which are basically buckwheat noodles. The recipe was simple, so I tried it. Wow! It is to die for! Whenever I come across a food combination that absolutely blows me away, I always have the same response: "This...is the food of the gods."
Check it out: Tan Tan Noodles Prep and Cook Time: Prep and cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients:
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Whfoods.com * * * * * It says it's a side dish, which would be nice, but I turned this into a main dish by calling it 2 servings and adding some seitan strips. I'm sure tofu would make it delicious as well. The cool thing is buckwheat has more nutrition than semolina (wheat) pasta. These noodles went wonderfully with the recipe. It didn't seem like I was eating something that is good for you but doesn't taste as good as the "real thing." This is an amazing dish.
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05-21-2008, 03:49 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Here is the recipe for "Kasha Varnishkes" http://homecooking.about.com/od/past...r/blpasta3.htm
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05-21-2008, 03:59 AM | #6 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
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Seriously, buckwheat (i.e. kasha) cooks much faster than most cereal grains. This makes it a prime candidate for my hot breakfasts that I enjoy even during the week. Time is an issue on weekdays.
Great ideas for buckwheat, guys, especially the beer. Seriously, willravel, I should try your recipe for deliciousness. It sounds great!
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05-21-2008, 06:15 AM | #7 (permalink) | |
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SOBA NOODLES ARE IN MY FUTURE...
Enlightening, Baraka. I'll definitely have to try it out. Lentils, one of the primary In His Name We Pray foods... take a zillion years to cook. I've been on a huge tofu-kidney beans-long grain rice-lentils kick lately. ... which may explain why I'm turning into a human skeleton again. Quote:
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05-21-2008, 08:24 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
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And try willravel's thing. It has walnuts and coconut. (Gods, I'm going to try it myself!)
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05-21-2008, 10:06 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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You want your colon cleaned out? Steel-cut oats are the .357 Magnum of grains. They are nature's steel wool. Try eating those raw. Sir, I sincerely hope you wrote that in jest; otherwise, I do say you go too far.
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05-21-2008, 10:17 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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Love it! When I go back to clean eating, it'll be on my list.
Good carbs 'cause they're full of yummy fiber PS: The buckwheat has about double the fiber of McCann's Steel Cut Oats.
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05-21-2008, 12:48 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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I can't say I've eaten buckwheat beyond pancakes and soba noodles, but I like it, and I'll definitely be trying out your recipe, Baraka_Guru.
More evidence that buckwheat is the food of the gods, from the Wikipedia entry (and my own experience): Quote:
and found it to be quite tasty. EDIT: Somehow I missed that Anxst had already linked to soba-as-beer. Ah well.
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05-21-2008, 01:44 PM | #14 (permalink) | ||
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Oats contain a type of fibre called beta-glucan (also found in ample amounts in barley but few other grains). Oats also have a unique antioxidant called avenanthramides. Both of these clean your bad cholesterol out real nice. Sometimes less is more. I'll stick to eating both oats and buckwheat. I love them both. Oh... that and I add ground flaxseed to each. Fiberlicious! Quote:
* * * * * snowy, there is no such thing as paying too much attention to beer, especially buckwheat beer.
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05-22-2008, 09:41 AM | #15 (permalink) | ||
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05-22-2008, 11:50 AM | #16 (permalink) | |
warrior bodhisattva
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For example, did you know that rye is the Luger P08 of grains? Seriously, though, steel-cut oats should be like the .44 Magnum. I was thinking of Dirty Harry and I messed up the reference. "It will blow your colon clean out."
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05-22-2008, 12:08 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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BG: Thanks for the edumacation I didn't know about avenanthramides.
I love TFP. I learn all kinds of cool stuff here.
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05-22-2008, 05:11 PM | #18 (permalink) | |
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Buckwheat really is a great grain. The sad little list of grains used here in the US is pitiful. Seems if it's not maize or wheat people don't know what the hell to do with it here. A few weeks back I served goulash on a bed of Dehulled Barley, and got a ton of comments from people, most wanting to know what on earth it was. I've done similar with buckwheat, and even steel cut oats in the past, and it always goes over well.
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05-22-2008, 07:43 PM | #19 (permalink) | |
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