posted on January 30, 2009 07:40:03 PM new
Dreamfieds is not standard pasta and I am willing to accept that this theory may be apocryphal. In any case it does not take that much longer to boil it and discard the water so I will continue to do it. Come to think of it some of the starch could be in the cooking water and discarding it might make some difference.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
[ edited by photosensitive on Jan 30, 2009 07:42 PM ]
posted on January 30, 2009 08:15:07 PM new
Boiling pasta does indeed remove some of the starch. Dreamfield's is lower in available carbohydrates than regular pasta to start with, and cooking it first will remove a bit more.
posted on January 30, 2009 08:26:48 PM new
Not boiling the lasagna is one of the things I like most about this recipe. I just read some reviews about Dreamfields and I can't wait to try their pasta. They ranked even with regular Barilla pasta in taste tests and were preferred 5 to 1 over regular Creamettes. They have a 65% lower glycemic index. At dinner, I had to scrape off and put aside half of my pasta to avoid a sugar dump. Can't wait to try it again with Dreamfields; I'll still try it with uncooked pasta.
Edited to add: Interesting tidbit: the amount of carbohydrates per serving on the Dreamfields label is 42 grams, yet the amount of available carbohydrates is only 5 grams - the rest is fiber and passes through your body without absorption. Reading nutritional info on labels isn't as easy as it used to be!
[ edited by pixiamom on Jan 30, 2009 08:47 PM ]
posted on January 31, 2009 05:19:51 AM new
My local supermarket used to carry Dreamfields but after a buyout by another chain dropped it along with several other items that I really like. We now make a longer drive to another market to stock up. This summer I was in Dallas where the markets that carried Dreamfields did not carry lasagna. I had promised my family homemade lasagna so I got on their web site and ordered a box to be mailed to me. Came in a couple of days. If the local supply ever dries up that is what I will do. We like it that much! -----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
