Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
How much does a jar of this stuff cost? It sounds expensive.
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What's your favorite warm weather beverage?
I've been looking forward to the warm weather coming back so I can make mojitos. The syrupy mojitos that bars serve are way too sweet for me, but a mildly sweet homemade mojito is quite refreshing on a warm summer evening.
Kolaches
There is a town in Nebraska called Prague that is roughly 30-40 minutes from where I grew up. The town was settled by Czech immigrants, and if I'm not mistaken the town holds a world record for making the largest kolache. Anyway, the food was well-known enough in eastern Nebraska that we often had kolaches as a dessert item with hot lunch at my elementary school.
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Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
economyrice: but back to essence of chicken -- i do reckon it's the most approachable of the lot. some of the other "high octane" stuff i've been fed over the years has been pretty vile!
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
economyrice: I haven't had bird's nest in years, but I suspect it's the love my mom puts into waking up early and double boiling the stuff for hours that makes me feel good ;)
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
super-compressed high octane broths! they're an acquired taste - some friends can't stand them. essence of chicken is probably the least 'strange' of the whole lot. my favourite is essence of cordyceps sinensis with bird's nest, warmed up in a bowl of hot water (usually on mornings of exams :) )
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
oh wow. this brings back horrid childhood memories. my mother is a typical asian mum who believes in the "power" of Brand's Essence of Chicken. my sister loves this stuff. my mum prepares it by simply heating it up and we'd drink it straight from the bottle. eeks.
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
The subtext to claims about the goodness of some strange naturally-derived product is often something having to do with uncharacterized micronutrients.
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
Luther: I think what the study showed was that the nutrient content of chicken essence alleviates symptoms of stress and fatigue. I'm sure anything with the same "macronutrient composition," as you suggest, would achieve the same results. Chicken essence, after all, is just ultra strong chicken broth... in a really handy bottle ;)
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
It would be nice if that study you linked used a better control(s). Their "placebo" is a colored gelatin solution (isocaloric to the chicken extract). What if you give something with an identical macronutrient composition? What about regular strong chicken broth?
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
Zachary: I found it at $16 for 6 bottles here: www.asiachi.com/bresofch.html
, so it works out to about $2.70 per bottle. You can probably buy just a single bottle of the stuff in Chinatown though =p
What's your favorite warm weather beverage?
For me, nothing beats a cold Miller Highlife mixed with V8 during the summer. Great after a long run or bike ride on a hot day. Oh yeah, Highlife mixed with Mrs. T's Spicy Tomato in a glass rimmed with salt is good, too. i do not recommend drinking this after exercise; the spice will make you snarf it up your nose. This hurts. I know.
@ DaveFaris: Enjoyed my share of Tinto de Veranos and Calimochos (cheap red wine + coca-cola) in Spain back in 1997. And yes, these drinks were cheaper than bottled water then, too!
What's your favorite warm weather beverage?
For the most part I confine myself to water and coffee, year-round, but orzata embodies summer, for me.
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