April's CR Diary

I was getting downright wiggy with hunger in anticipation of my delicious dinner, and the pumpkin cream cheese muffin haunted my daydreams. What would happen if I ate it? Would the world end? Would I, like Cinderella's carriage, be turned into a pumpkin?

Having just eaten one of those last week (paired with their pumpkin spice latte, the polar opposite of your coffee with nothing in it), I can tell you what would happen: it tasted amazing, downright marvelous, completely scrumptious. That part lasted ten minutes. Then I felt overfull, sluggish, and craved a nap for the much of the afternoon. Come dinner time I was hungry again just as if I hadn't had 8 bazillon calories in pumpkin cheescake form. It was yummy, but definitely not worth it.

I think you should have eaten the pumpkin-ricotta muffin instead of that shite...
It would be almost same calories and much more tastier and only because you didn't eat that muffin were you so eager about this really bad sounding recipe. Yikes!
zeyno

Zeynep, you really ought to get your facts straight before sounding off. Here is the nutritional information on the Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin, obtained directly from the Starbucks website:

Calories 470,
Fat Calories 220,
Total Fat (g) 24,
Saturated Fat (g) 6,
Cholesterol (mg) 85,
Sodium (mg) 420,
Total Carbohydrates (g) 60,
Fiber (g) 1,
Sugars (g) 28,
Protein (g) 6,
Vitamin A 0%,
Vitamin C 0%,
Calcium 4%,
Iron 10%.

Four hundred & seventy calories and 24 grams of fat for one muffin!? MR's Cheesecake dessert, on the other hand, has a mere 104 calories & 1.9 grams of fat per serving. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize which is the healthier choice and which is "shite". You have repeatedly written very negative comments about April & MR's recipes in the past, without apparently ever having tried them. I have to wonder why. Every recipe that we have tried has been totally delicious, with layers of flavours and loaded with the "yummy factor". As I wrote a while back, if you ain't tried it, don't knock it. JD

I have to agree with Judith - every recipe I have tried of April & MR's has been very tasty. Even my family (kids included), who are not currently CR-practitioners, have loved the recipes. I think April and MR should put together a CR cookbook!

I think you guys have serious problems with your tastebuds then!
I am the daughter of one of the most renowned Turkish restaurant owners, so that might be my hazard, but anybody in their right mind who reads the ingridients to those foods can imagine the outcome without tasting them, and say "yikes!".
C'mon all you guys ar trying to do is satisfying your sweettooth and having a sweettooth itself is major implication you're far far removed from being a gourmet!
Gourmets, as you should know, don't like sweet-tastng things because that's not an evolved sense of taste, it's the most primitive one..
Well, way to go you gals!
zeynep

I'm glad the recipe turned out OK! Take care, you two....

Once again, Zeynep, you really ought to obtain facts before making statements. The Cambridge dictionary defines gourmet as "a person who knows a lot about food and cooking, and who enjoys eating high-quality food". The Merriam Webster says it means "a connoisseur of food and drink" Finally, the Oxford online states it means "a connoisseur of good food". Nowhere is it mentioned that gourmets do not like sweet-tasting things. I hadn't realized I was a gourmet, but using these definitions, apparently I am. As for being in my right mind, my son the psychiatrist hasn't mentioned that therapy might be appropriate. JD

Well dear Judith,
if you're looking for definitions in commonly published mediocre dictionaries and listen to your son's advice (whether he is a shrink or not),
you're certainly too stupid to understand anything I am talking about.
Try to go deeper honey...