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Calorieking.com gave me an eye opening experience today.
Now, we all make fun of french cooking for being kinda unhealthy. As it turns out, I had no idea.
The bechamel sauce I made last night for my steak au poivre . . . well . . . let's say that I didn't suspect that I was pouring about 1300 calories over my steak.
1300 calories of pure deliciousness for sure, but someone of my small stature and minimal weight probably shouldn't be packing it in like that, at least not for the sauce alone.
It looks so innocuous too, doesn't it? I mean looking at it in all it's pristine white and simple beauty, you wouldn't think that it's equivalent to eating a whole minke whale. But it is.
Sadly, I make a similar cream sauce with roasted garlic for gnocchi sometimes. On top of that, you know what I put in that gnocchi dough? Cheese.
Sigh. Nothing to be done about it really, I'm not gonna commit a sin and switch to making bechamel with milk like a chump. That way lies culinary purgatory, where sins like raspberry vinaigrette and mango salsa live.
Now, we all make fun of french cooking for being kinda unhealthy. As it turns out, I had no idea.
The bechamel sauce I made last night for my steak au poivre . . . well . . . let's say that I didn't suspect that I was pouring about 1300 calories over my steak.
1300 calories of pure deliciousness for sure, but someone of my small stature and minimal weight probably shouldn't be packing it in like that, at least not for the sauce alone.
It looks so innocuous too, doesn't it? I mean looking at it in all it's pristine white and simple beauty, you wouldn't think that it's equivalent to eating a whole minke whale. But it is.
Sadly, I make a similar cream sauce with roasted garlic for gnocchi sometimes. On top of that, you know what I put in that gnocchi dough? Cheese.
Sigh. Nothing to be done about it really, I'm not gonna commit a sin and switch to making bechamel with milk like a chump. That way lies culinary purgatory, where sins like raspberry vinaigrette and mango salsa live.