i've started slaking my interminable desire for ice cream with Sour Cream sprinkled with some sugar.
someone saw me eating a bowl of sour cream and was shocked at how unhealthy i was being.
i don't think it's unhealthy, especially if it's replacing ice cream. it literally has 1 ingredient : "cultured cream".
the amount of sugar i put in is far less than what is in ice cream.
why do people read "sour" and immediately think this is only for putting salt and using as a chip dip or something.
sliced strawberries on top of this is extremely good.
western cuisine has very little of the sweet and sour combination, that's why it's so much associated with china. but it's nonsense. what is strawberries and cream? instead of lactic acid and sugar it's citric/malic/etc acid and sugar.
sour milk is an acquired taste but once you get used to it, you prefer it to sweet cream and sweet milk. it's better for you. we can digest that sugar, yes, but it makes you put on more weight, and stresses your kidneys splean and pancreas. the fermentation also softens the casein protein making the amino acids more bioavailable.
i bet you can substitute sweet fruit too, like bananas, plums and peaches and still enjoy eating it. canned fruit "in natural juice" would also work, i'd stay away from the sweetened kind.
you are reminding me that it's been quite some time since i ate sour cream. it's a staple in the balkans.
actually, in a lot of south american cuisine it's also a thing, except the sweet comes from corn (tacos, tortillas, burritos, all of them can optionally include sour cream).
i'm gonna see if i can get sour cream at the local supermarket. probably will only be able to buy it in small containers but no matter. it's the thing that my diet has been sorely missing, and until you mentioned it, i had forgotten.
so the fact that people see sour cream associated with tacos, burritos, etc is probably why Americans think I'm crazy when they see me putting sugar on sour cream and eating it with fruit.
however, it's much tastier to have sour cream + strawberries than just plain (whipping) cream with strawberries
i personally have always preferred sour to sweet
