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WHAT MAKES ME AN "INFORMED" FOOD BLOGGER

I am CURRENTLY a PRACTICING PHYSICIAN .

However, I did complete TWO YEARS of college studying GENERAL BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY, Food technology,Food Microbiology and Biochemistry prior to deciding that I am more inclined to the CLINICAL SIDE of things and hence decided to get into MEDICAL SCIENCE .

I did very well in medical school thereafter and am now a "kick-ass" doctor .

My interest in "Food" and the "Science of cooking" continues to this day and explains why I now have a Food blog as part of my LECINQBLOG family of Blogs

I seek to dispel FOOD FADS, food myths via this food blog.I seek also to increase health awareness by canvassing for healthier diets.

Good chef meets GOOD DOCTOR meets good writer=Informative food blog, no?

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Nutty Biscotti and Nutty coffee !

I like the concept of Biscotti.The nuttier the bisocotti the better.I would always choose a biscotti over a cookie..esp the American cookie coz they seem very undercooked to me.It almost always feels like they could have done with a lil bit more time in the oven so that they would go crispy and not so cookie doughish still.
Anyways, biscotti suits my palate in the texture and taste department coz it is rich and denser than a cracker but yet crunchy enough and yes, it is rustic in some way.
To me, the nuttier the biscotti the better.It adds an alternative bite , alternative type of crunch amidst that hardy crunch of the biscotti persay.
Having said that, now the deal in question here is, I made this hardy nutty rustic vegan biscotti(no soy involved-no earthbalance or other processed stuff involved)..I am slowly at drifting towards becoming a non soy, non fake meat vegan from a previously ovolactovegetarian-Never eaten any meat in my life thanks to my parents who never made meat at home except the accidental serving and chomping on calamari one time and another time, found chicken bits in my suppossedly mushroom mayo sandwich.I was so hungry too ,, but for a person who has never eaten meat, the texture of meat fibers comes out as bad and not natural(too soft ).Not to deliberately gross anyone out , but trust me, if some muscle of human body is adequately cooked and put in a mayo sandwich it might easily pass off as chicken or lamb, coz the muscle fibers are essentially the same.Which is exactly why, meat is not our natural diet at all.
Anyways coming back to this pleasant topic of biscotti, i made this rustic chocolate biscotti with no egg and no milk and no soy and no earthbalance( i am quite sceptic about using foods that utilize rarely found products coz we risk exhausting these commodities-we would rather choose readily available products to substitute butter rather than use something that is so less produced that if at all everyone on earth chose to eat it, we won't be able to keep up the production needs enough to match the needs-so sugar is just okay for me, oil too-we can do wonders with just oil and no earthbalance.I see this earthbalance craze amongst vegans nowadays and as a physician i have to insist that it is not a great idea.More about it on another blog , k?)
Gosh, why do i digress?
Biscotti, nutty, chocolate, vegan..and i made it at home .It was great.And i had nutty coffee with it.
NOw , now, what does nutty coffee mean?Well, if the coffee bean is roasted a lil bit more before it is grinded, it gives out a roasted coffee,,, a not so as much as burnt, but over roasted taste..That kinda taste sometimes works very well with biscotti.
So, i made the coffee, i made the biscotti, it was good.Happy times just after waking up .

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