Friday, April 4, 2008

You Too Can Make Delicious Pancakes With This New Free Diet Food




This Dr Seuss style article introduces okara, a by-product of soy that has been around for more than 22 centuries, yet is almost unheard of in America. This high protein, high-fiber, pulp that remains after the soymilk is extracted from soybeans, has always been little more than animal feed, but because of its low calorie content, could hold the key to America's weight problems.

You can whip up some pancakes
That's what you can do.
You can stew up some soup,
You can soup up some stew.

You can add it to flour
to make muffins and cake
Even scones and soufflés,
Oh the things you can make.

You can even make meat balls,
and sausage, and fish.
I could go on for pages
If that's what you wish.

But where do you get it,
this marvelous stuff?
You make it yourself
and the stuff isn't tough.

Just start off with soybeans,
they're easy to get.
And soak them in water,
they love to get wet
and the longer they soak
the bigger they get.

They swell and they swell
till they're three times the size
they were at the start,
now they're fat little guys.

I hate what comes next,
it couldn't be fun,
to be put in a blender
and get chopped up and spun.
and your bones turn to soymilk
before it gets done.

But then to get boiled.
What a terrible thought.
To get dumped in a pot
and that pot it gets hot.
I wouldn't want that,
Oh no, I would not!

The milk is delicious,
but cows don't like it a bit.
Milk can't come from a bean
cause a bean's not a
bit like a cow, and they're
off in a snit.

The pulp is strained out
of the milk by the way.
And up until now
it was all thrown away,
or fed to the cows
who were happy that way.

We call it okara
when we use it to bake
those wonderful goodies
that great tasting cake
The sandwiches that
I take to the lake.


And the cows are contented
they don't mind what we do.
'Cause we eat the okara,
not beef, in our stew,
and they know that most soymilk
is used for tofu.

Okara is a high protein, high fiber cooking ingredient that adds a lot of extra bulk to baked goods like scones, muffins, and pancakes without extra calories, making it the ideal food for losing weight.