Sorry for the lack of updates folks! It's been very busy the past few months and I've barely had time to cook anything. There are a couple of recipes that I'm working on and I should be able to get a new one up in time for Thanksgiving.
However, in lieu of that, I've decided to try something new. As many of you know, I suffer from dairy allergies. A number of people get this confused with Lactose Intolerance. However, it's not the lactose that I'm allergic to but rather some other protein in milk. This makes enjoying some of my favorite foods and drinks rather...difficult.
Case in point: Egg Nog
I've loved egg nog ever since I was a child and it's one of the things in the holiday season that I really really miss being able to enjoy. This year however, my local grocery store started carrying Silk Nog - a soy alternative to the holiday favorite.
I first saw it a couple weeks ago, but was a little scared to try it. My love of nog got the best of me however and today I broke down and bought a carton. Just shaking the carton told me that something was different with this product. When I went to pour myself a glass, I immediately noticed a diffence in the consistency. It was thin. It definitely didn't have the same consistency as normal egg nog. This was highly disappointing, but I can kind of understand it. Soy milk always seemed thinner than regular milk to me.
After getting over my immediate shock at the lack of thickness, I gave it a taste. I'm sad to say that it doesn't really taste like I remember egg nog tasting. In fact, it has the nutty flavor of regular soy milk with a slight egg nog flavor added on top. It's definitely different and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I'm sure that a little fresh ground nutmeg would have made it taste a little better, but since my kitchen is a little understocked in terms of ingredients and tools at the moment, I had to go without.
As this product is really the only one out there at this time for those of us with Milk Allergies, I believe that it is an good replacement for the real thing. My hope is that in the future, they can alter the recipe that they use to give it a more authentic flavor instead of it just being Egg Nog flavored soy milk.
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3 years ago
Hey - I drink Almond Breeze "Milk". You should try that as a regular milk alternative. It's thinner then milk, of course, be I think it tastes pretty good. I enjoy it with cereal and sometimes use it in my coffee. And it's nice as a beverage all on it's own. It comes in Original and Vanilla flavor. I go with vanilla.
ReplyDeleteJust throwing that out there.