Daily Photo: Soy to the world

Written on November 19, 2011 by Hollie in Daily Photo

I’m not gonna lie to you: you can tell it’s soy. It isn’t a perfect masking of flavors, but then what can you do? I bought this because eggnog is a trigger food for me, and by that I mean that on Thursday I brought a quart of eggnog into the house and six hours later it was gone. I couldn’t stop, which was fine because I didn’t want to stop, because I WAS IN EGGNOG HEAVEN, oh the transcendent bliss, the divine mystical nectar of the holiday season, forever you are mine, forever we shall be together, and the rest of you can have my eggnog when you rip it from my cold dead nutmeg-scented hand.

But.

Then it was gone.

A whole quart. Gone.

And I didn’t feel very well.

The next morning I woke up with this weird coating on my tongue, and I was sick all day. Headaches, stomach aches, one after the other. Dizzy spells. Two nights before that I’d watched Forks Over Knives, which is all about how going vegan will save us, and right then, in my coated-tongue dairy-filled haze, I can tell you that I wanted to be saved.

Enter the soy nog. It’s just enough eggnog-iness to sate that addicted beast within, but not so much that I can’t put the carton down.

Oh and yes, that’s Stratego in the background.

Lisa

Eggnog just KILLS me. I do fine with most dairy in small quantities, but eggnog messes me up. I avoid temptation by always looking at the calories and fat on the carton, then I don’t even want it anymore. :)

I like soy nog. I also like the peppermint chocolate soy drink you can sometimes find around the holidays. (That one’s good hot.) Soy nog with an extra grating of nutmeg on the top is almost as good as real eggnog. I wish it were thicker. I could probably fiddle with some instant clear jel to take care of that, but that just seems wrong. :)

http://www.grassdirtcorn.com Hollie

PEPPERMINT CHOCOLATE, OH YUM! I will look for that.

You should have soy nog at the party, with a little sign next to it that says, “With extra gel!” And just see who drinks it.

Sterling

I’ve never seen the Earth Balance soy nog before. I can handle small amounts of real nog (like 2 or 3 ounces in my coffee) but that’s about it. I bought some egg nog ice cream and it did NOT make my body happy. (I did make an entire quart of egg nog last almost two weeks, though. I was pretty impressed with myself.)

Unfortunately, soy does not make my body happy, and I have yet to find another milk analogue that makes a nog. (I used to love Silk Nog.)

Wait. I think there might be Rice Nog. Maybe. I’ll have to check. But it’ll be extra thin, that’s true.

http://www.grassdirtcorn.com Hollie

Yeah, Whole Foods has some Rice Nog, but I just couldn’t imagine that was remotely okay.

Eggnog ice cream. OH MAN.

Nolly

I like Silk Nog. Haven’t tried Earth Balance, so I can’t compare them.

http://www.grassdirtcorn.com Hollie

Oh I’ll try that one!

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My eggnog solution is to by the fancy kind that comes in pretty LITTLE bottles. Not too much eggnog to be consumed, just enough PLUS I get a pretty little bottle.
Ivana

I love eggnog, but I think of it as a seasonal desert, not a beverage. And of course consuming an entire quart of the commercial stuff (dairy or not) is probably not advisable for anyone.

It really is surprisingly easy to make (it’s just eggs, cream, sugar, bourbon and nutmeg), and one consolation is that the real stuff is so heavy and strong that you only really need to have a small amount of it to be satisfied. I follow the “eggnog for one” recipe from The Joy of Cooking.