Mmm… nougat. I made the mistake of going in the supermarket while my blood sugar was low. I needed something to eat, and got a reasonably healthy sandwich, but also impulsively picked up a seven-ounce box of nougat. It’s a rectangular block.
I tasted a bit and it’s really rich and delicious – but what do I do with it? I’m a diabetic, so just cutting it into squares and gobbling it all while watching The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra isn’t an option, attractive as it seems.
What do people do with nougat? Do you cook with it? I’m at a loss here.
All suggestions are appreciated. Even the obscene ones, because, you know, that’s still reaching out.
I think you’re supposed to cut it with something cheaper and then sell it, so you can buy more.
Or something.
Seriously… if you have a double boiler (or a metal dish and a saucepan, which works just as well) you could melt up some chocolate, dice up the nougat and make yourself some candies. Of course, that wouldn’t help with the diabetes end of things, but might make it easier to pass off at work. “Here, I made candy, try some!” usually works well at my workplace.
In a similar vein, I saw an ad for a gym this morning on the tv’s at the gym that showed a slightly overweight woman watching tv, reclining on her couch and nibbling away at a stick of butter. Since it was up on the monitors at the gym, I’m guessing the ad copy amounted to, “Hey, if you’re going to go to the gym, you better keep your energy up; what better way than pure, unadulterated food energy!” :dubious:
You could eat it like a candy bar, since that’s what it is, without the chocolate coating. You’ve basically got a Three Musketeers bar without the chocolate, right?
(gives Ethilrist a devastating “my my you poor thing you don’t know any better” look)
Real nougat comes in hard and soft varieties. It is white. It is made of honey, and tastes strongly of it. It often has nuts in it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the chocolate fluff inside Three Musketeers bars.
And there’s nothing to do with it but eat it straight. I suggest you ration yourself to one small piece a day.
There are many forms of street fighting. If you are (as I assume you are) referring to the gang of capitalized Street Fighters whose exploits were captured by a mysterious organization known only as “Capcom,” I can find no instances of screaming regarding nougat. Two of the fighters, known only as “Ken” and “Ryu,” often make shouts which appear to sound as “A token!” and “A fight’s a token!” which apparently show that they are aware that it costs a token (or 25 cents, depending on the location) to participate in a fight. However, it appears that some of the fighters may train by eating pure nougat, based on the girth of E. Honda. Whether or not the nougat also allows him to do that thing where he slaps you really fast, I’m unsure. We’re also working on a theory that nougat is what allows Dhalsim to stretch his arms out really big.
I think the nougat in a 3M bar is of the whipped variety, which is cut with egg white and maybe milk until it’s light and fluffy. Pure uncut nougat would be more firm and include nuts & honey - something like a Toblerone bar.
Yep; what I’ve got is La Fama brand, made in Spain. Ingredients: “Toasted almond, sugar, honey and white of egg.” Firm but not hard; if you hold a bit of it, your fingers acquire a light glaze of what I assume is almond oil. Oh, God, it’s so good.
Okay, I’m rationing myself. But I know I’ll be thinking about my happy nougat all day long. I love my nougat in a special way.
Melt up some fine Swiss chocolate, why don’tcha. Cube up nougat and poke with small toothpicks. Nougat Fondue!
(Caution: Have people over first. Otherwise you may eat the whole thing, send your system into hyperglycemic trauma and wake up in grave need of a kidney transplant for which you are 12,354th on the wait list.)
