RE: A Mega Post Calls for Mega Energy! {Warming Date Shake to Celebrate a Victory}
I am glad that was a great run for you - especially after having been so under the weather. Congratulations on the win....
Reading your post about date sugar: is there a difference between palm sugar and date sugar? I do wonder. I do also know that palm suger is about 1,000x (and you know I don't exaggerate :P) sweeter than commercial, refined sugar. As is honey. You'be got me thinking.
On the dehydration thing: I've done my own sundried tomatoes - in the sun (ahem) - and I know how long that takes. The oven - even on its lowest setting - just doesn't work the same way.
Finally (and this comment is almost as long as your post...ahem...), that drink sounds fantastic - both delicious and nutritious. I do hope you made a note of the ratios to be able to make it again. Oh, and I love that first photograph of it where it's reflected in the rainy window behind....
:D
So after looking (because you learn something new every single day), palm sugar generally refers to coconut palm and they use the sap to make it. But it can also come from date palms or other varieties, but regardless it is made from the sap from either the flowers or the tree itself. Which means date sugar is slightly different as it is made from the actual date fruit.
Interesting when you really start reading all about it! I bet those tomatoes were amazing. I think it's about time I finally return the dehydrator I've been "borrowing" since August, or just need to offer up some cash to just keep it, haha. It has come in handy, and I would imagine uses less energy than turning in the oven to try to dry things. Plus my oven doesn't go down as low in temps as the dehydrator.
I may not try the date sugar again too soon, but I know I'll enjoy another of these shakes in the next few days. I just finished shelling about 2.5 pounds of pecans so they're ready for some more homemade holiday goodies for my latest round in the kitchen...
How are your fingers after shelling all those pecans?
As I asked the question, it did occur to me that it was sugar from sap. I should have engaged my brain! That said, I'm sure there's no reason you couldn't use the whole date(s) in that drink?
Yes, those tomatoes were amazing. Our crop is coming in thick and fast now and
we'reThe Husband is managing to pick them ahead of the guinea fowl's destroying them. As we speak, he's off at the nursery to fill beds that have just been "emptied"....If I had more space, I might well look at a dehydrator. I've been thinking about zuccini. Somewhere I have a recipe for a salad that includes zucchini that are dry grilled/charred and I was thinking that if they were dehydrated, that might also work. You got me thinking. We have zuccini coming... Oh, and the sweetcorn are tasseling.... :D
#jealous ;)
I still have some shell stuck underneath my fingernails I think. Though I can't complain as they were already cracked, so it was a much easier go than if I had to crack them all first! A tedious venture, but worth it for those deliciously fresh treats inside!
I would totally make this again with whole dates. That's the benefit of having finally invested in a good quality blender--that thing can whiz up just about anything! I always have some of those little beauties on hand, though I probably most often enjoy them as is. Such a wonderful little fruit they are!
I love dates, too. My dad did, also. I remember one year getting him a box for Christmas - still on the stalks and with a little fork in the box. I could eat an entire box, myself, if it weren't for their being just sooo sweet!
Coincidentally, I bought my mom a box this year! She loved the Barhi variety I got last time, and luckily they just harvested their 2019 crop so I ordered one for her this time around. That is probably the good thing about them--I adore them, but they are sweet enough to keep me from overeating, too. ;)
I have a friend who works for a company that exports dates.... Let me just say: I don't see her often enough during harvest :P