Interlude: Ezekiel 4:9 Thou shall eat the pasta

So, I will be having throat surgery in two days. For several weeks I will be reduced to baby food and snack packs. Before that time comes I decided to try some Ezekiel pasta. What is Ezekiel? Well, it is supposedly the next level of whole grains. In the process of creating the pasta they allow the grains to germinate in pure filtered water. This is supposed to release the dormant nutrients. The pasta contains 9g of complete protein, 7g of fiber, 0g of sugar, and is supposed to cook in half the time.

To go with the pasta I put together a simple red meat sauce with natural organic ground buffalo. The result? Well, with a few small adjustments, it is actually surprisingly good. First change I had to make was to increase the cook time from the 4-5 minutes to almost 12. Second, the noodles need to be placed in the sauce and allowed to sit for at least a minute to absorb the sauce. The noodles themselves are bland but soak up the sauce like a sponge. Unlike normal whole wheat pasta you lose a lot of the grain starch aftertaste. I'm actually kind of excited to see how it tastes reheated tomorrow.