Mychal
Posts: 272
Join date: 2011-09-23
Location: Tennessee
 | | Subject: Re: kosher soulfood Fri May 11, 2012 12:14 pm | |
| Jimmy Dean has a new product out--turkey crumbles. Last night my husband and I had breakfast burritos for supper: turkey bacon, onion and bell pepper medley, and turkey sausage, topped with some salsa.
Most Southern-fried foods are NOT fried in lard--at least not in Tennessee (I might question Louisiana and Mississippi). You use Crisco if you're skillet frying, while home deep fryers are typically peanut oil; restaurant deep fryers typically use a vegetable oil. Partially-hydrogenated palm kernel oil--or something like it--has a shelf life of years (which is why ho-ho's last forever); lard, like all meat products, spoils after a time. That's why people stopped using it.
Although studies have found that lard is actually not as bad for you as partially-hydrogenated vegetable shortening, so there may be a movement in the future to take frying and baking back to lard.
You may want to check the ingredient lists on your faux shellfish. The stuff they sell around me is fish with a bunch of junk added to it, like corn syrup. I can't have it because it also has sorbitol (a sugar alcohol--normally found in sugar-free foods) in it; I'm allergic to it. Even normal people have to be careful not to consume too much, because sugar alcohols are not digested well and they give people bad gas (and even diarrhea). |
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Debbie B.
Posts: 324
Join date: 2011-09-05
Location: Chicagoland
| | Subject: Re: kosher soulfood Fri May 11, 2012 1:15 pm | |
| | Mychal wrote: | | Jimmy Dean has a new product out--turkey crumbles. Last night my husband and I had breakfast burritos for supper: turkey bacon, onion and bell pepper medley, and turkey sausage, topped with some salsa. |
Any meat by "Jimmy Dean" is only suitable if you simply eat minimally "kosher-style". Jimmy Dean turkey is still not kosher. Also, just as a general warning, since the subject of sausage was brought up: if you avoid pork products, you should be careful to read labels for sausage links since many of them, even those made with ground poultry, use pork casings and some may have milk product ingredients too. Back before we started to buy only rabbinically supervised meat, my husband once bought some chicken bratwurst which when I read the small print on the label turned out to have pork casings.
| Mychal wrote: |
You may want to check the ingredient lists on your faux shellfish. The stuff they sell around me is fish with a bunch of junk added to it, like corn syrup. I can't have it because it also has sorbitol (a sugar alcohol--normally found in sugar-free foods) in it; I'm allergic to it. Even normal people have to be careful not to consume too much, because sugar alcohols are not digested well and they give people bad gas (and even diarrhea). |
Few people are going to eat a lot of the kosher fake shellfish because it is quite expensive: about $8 for a 10.5 oz package of fake shrimp. And it is really not a good enough substitute that most people would want eat a whole serving of it straight up like shrimp. We just put a little of it into kosher Paella---maybe a half pound of fake shellfish into 6 quarts of rice, along with more real fish.
Obviously you can't eat it because of a food allergy. But I am not too concerned about the corn syrup in the very limited amounts I eat (a pound a year?). I get a lot more corn syrup in other products even though I read labels carefully and try to avoid food products with a lot of it. |
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