Frozen sour grapes 🥶 The citric acid secret you didn’t know you needed!

Want a snack that's both healthy and addictive? 

 

This week, we're taking your frozen grapes to the next level with a simple ingredient: citric acid. 

 

(If you’re wondering wtf citric acid is or what it’s used for, don’t worry we got you!)

 

We'll show you how to transform ordinary frozen grapes into a sour, candy-like treat that's perfect for any time (but especially when your A1C starts creeping up!)

 

Get ready for a flavor explosion that’s easy and a little bit different!

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EP 141 | Transcripts | Frozen sour grapes 🥶 The citric acid secret you didn’t know you needed!

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome back to Food FAQ you guys, I'm Mariela and I'm Eric and you sound like death rolled over twice

(00:06):
Oh, just tired
Tired of what I don't even know what you do all day. I know you're fucking fake. That's what I get out of
Yeah, well, I mean yeah when you get old like you it's definitely easy to be tired all the time
Let me explain everything to everybody you're fucking older than me
Two days do not count and my spirit is younger than yours for sure
No, not lately

(00:29):
Not me. You know the last 10 years
Next time we go to a restaurant and you think it's a bar okay
Okay, short story. We went to bar taco, which is a bar that serves tacos
Right, and I was so happy because I hadn't been to a bar in a really long time and I sat at a physical bar

(00:50):
And they gave me drinks that is a bar. It was a restaurant in suburban DC
Okay, we were in the suburbs of DC you guys or I live and
And a bar it was a bar. It's called bar taco
Because it's a bar of tacos Mariela
All right, so anyway, he's made fun of me for years now because I said it was a bar like it was so happy

(01:15):
I'm like a bar in years. I'm like you try to fucking restaurant in the suburbs like
It's a bar and and it's not like you go to chilies and there's a bar there. It's like different
There it's nicer. Two steps up from chilies. Yeah, so then it's a bar
Chili's is not a bar either. It's a restaurant
Anyway, so I digress
I forgot what the fuck I was gonna say

(01:38):
What you were gonna say is is we are gonna talk about a delicious
healthy
quick
dessert
That's right and I wouldn't call this a dessert personally, but I would say
That it is a yummy snack
Okay, I call a dessert
Right because your old
But my kids really enjoyed it and I knew they would so go ahead. This is like all you old person

(02:04):
God damn
Okay, so you know your favorite podcast host
And co-host Mariela
But your favorite podcast host has to get some
Medical numbers lowered
Okay

(02:24):
So what happens when you hang out with an old bitch like Mariela who thinks a restaurant is a bar
And I haven't talked to my nutritionist about this one. Yeah, name
And she's fabulous. So here we go tell me
It's very easy. You're just gonna take frozen grapes just freeze them freeze the fuck out of them in your freezer
All the fucks all the fucks
You could do this by the way with like frozen orange wedges. I've done it with frozen watermelon

(02:48):
Did you say you can make this with water really?
Yeah, make it with watermelon
No, that sounds good. Okay, go ahead. Okay, so we're gonna do grapes right now Mariela. Okay, yeah, top of care
All right, this is a such a simple dessert freeze the grapes
Let them get rock hard frozen
Put them in a food processor
You might need some liquid by the way

(03:10):
So you can use water you can use squeeze some orange you can you whatever
Prosecco liquid you like what do you say? Rosacrow
That'd be really good actually that'd be yummy wouldn't it? That'd actually be really good
So if you want to make an adult version of this
Put some liquid in there. All right, and you're gonna let that food processor just go

(03:36):
Okay, and it's gonna become almost like I'm not gonna call it really a sorbet because it's not as creamy
But think of like a sorbet. It's a little bit icier
All right, now this is where it gets delicious
What I do after that is I then go ahead and I sprinkle some citric acid in it

(03:56):
Okay, and you can get it at Walmart by the way
You can get it anywhere exactly
And citric acid is just gonna make it just kind of sour
I love sour things. So it's just gonna make kind of sour
And then I put it in a bowl and I sprinkle some pomegranate seeds on top of it
And that shit is fucking delicious

(04:17):
And the reason why I call it a dessert is because it has prevented me from eating actual desserts
Like every day of the week
You know, I have something to say about pomegranate
I really like the flavor of it, but I don't like eating the seeds because it's a weird texture thing
I like eating the seeds in something like this because it makes me feel like I'm eating something substantial

(04:37):
Yeah, so
You know, I I I have to lower things like
blood sugar levels and stuff like that
and
through this adventure
of
learning how to
quench my sweet tooth or
my desire for like things like sour patch kids

(04:59):
I had to like think pretty creatively
and I was really shocked because I had seen somebody take
frozen oranges and
put them in their food processor and use that as like we're gonna say sorbet with quotation marks
And I thought well, why not frozen grape
And by the way green grapes are my favorite. I'm a green grape person

(05:21):
I'm gonna ask you that yeah, I'm a green grape I think this green grapes are like their plumper
You know and I eat the primer too and the skin is thinner
It is and like I feel like when you bite into a green grape it's like more satisfying agreed
And I think also when you buy green grapes like grocery stores
Regres tend to like get mushier quicker and squished and stuff like that

(05:43):
So
This is what I've been doing and again like you said
Such a acid if you haven't used it. It's just like extremely sour
It's what gives you sour flavor when you
Buy into a sour candy. That's what it is such a acid and you can buy it again
Most grocery stores mighty bought it at Walmart the other day
Yeah, a big container
Yeah, you know, that's quite a fucking one health. I'm gonna have such a acid forever

(06:07):
Yeah, you are
So now okay, what if you don't have such a acid, you know
Then remember that that liquid that I told you you needed in the beginning use lemon juice use lime juice
To give it that sour flavor that you're looking. Oh, you know, I'll be yummy. Hmm
Tart cherry juice
Tart cherry juice would be really good. Yeah, I love tart cherry juice. Well, you know, so today

(06:31):
So we're recording on a Sunday and I want to trade a jersey of the day
But I think jose has really good produce
Yes, they have a cool fruit
They do and they have a lot of seasonal stuff
and
Spring and summer approaches. They're gonna have really cool things
But what I did is is I also bought frozen cherries. Oh, yeah, so they're with the frozen cherries

(06:54):
That's gonna be delicious. So I know this sounds really simple and I know it's just something that
Maybe people haven't thought of doing but I'm telling you this is something I every night
and
It's really really
Taking away my desire for something you know like when you're you know like put us late at night and you're watching TV

(07:15):
It takes my desire of like
A bowl of ice cream or a piece of cake it gives you the motion of eating and
I don't know. I love the sourness of it. So that's just me. I made this as well. I made it with the green grapes
I kind of just I didn't make it like you did because you know
Sometimes you call Eric and he doesn't answer the phone because I think he's in the CIA

(07:37):
But he's not telling me because he's a very important person. I would have a much nicer home
It's all part of your cover look okay listen. So I get two
Cubs of grapes. It was about two cups you guys and then I rinsed it really well and then I dried them
And then I squeezed half of a lime because I bought a big bag of limes at the the Walmart day

(07:59):
I don't know why they look so pretty and I squeezed half a lime in there
To make them wet so that the citric acid
And the three packets of splenda because I know splendor's gonna kill me
But so is oxygen. I don't give a shit. I like splenda
Three packets of splendor in it
And then I mixed it all together and then I pop them inside a Ziploc bag and put them in the freezer so that they can freeze

(08:20):
Now I haven't wisdom my not yet
I'm gonna dissect my stage two because I haven't tried that yet
But just the grapes themselves
Like that are delightful my kids love them
I was sneaking a few in there too and inside of my mouth
I was sneaking some balls in my mouth while I was cooking
You're not foreign to that

(08:41):
And it was delightful like I really kind of like having these I have bought these before but they were like six dollars a bag
Oh my god the the sour great the yes
I've ever got my the call they're in the frozen section and they do great mangos and pineapple
Yeah, they have a coating of sugar and sour on them right that's what's called fruit riot fruit riot remember

(09:02):
I made you buy it and I they had a Walmart
And it's delicious, but you can really just buy citric acid and whatever fruit and you can make it at your house with like much better
Much better ingredients fruit riot has a lot of sugar. They're really good. Don't get me wrong if you see them grab them
They're good, but they have a lot of sugar on them and it kind of defeats the purpose of using a fruit with like something sweet or sour
Right especially at my house where I really try to limit the amount of sugar

(09:26):
Like I only give my kid sugar in the afternoon like after lunch if they're home or with their lunch at school because anything later than that
It really disrupts them and their behavior so I really enjoy having things like this around
For them me. I'm not such a sweet tooth person like if I'm gonna crave chocolate
I'll just eat it because I it's not my thing right like right

(09:47):
I'm not but you can't trust me around bread or
Salty I'm a salty I'm a salty bitch. You're a sour bitch. I know
So yeah, I think this would be delicious
And you know what else I think that watermelon idea's got me really freaking rock hard right now
I really think that would be yummy and with a little bit of tajin
Hmm yum. All right. I'm gonna say something controversial here. Tell me you don't like tahin. I like tajin

(10:12):
Okay, I hate on cucumbers. You don't like it on watermelon or mango? No, no. Here's a thing
I don't like savory and fruit today when we were talking about this earlier today
When we were coming with other recipe ideas
I don't like mixing fruit with savory
Hmm, and it's like

(10:32):
It's not that I don't
No, I don't even fucking see the value in it. I'm trying to be all in
It's not savory though. It's spice whatever listen. You're allowed to have a water
But it's it's like if you're gonna put something with like I like fruit as make it as possible
You're a whore
That's where we always come back to that point, you know, it's always a center

(10:53):
From fruit Mariela I sort of got it's a family show, okay?
So it's not this is not a family show
You don't know this okay? You don't know that can families sitting around an iPhone
All
In the campfire
No, you know like for example, I like chocolate

(11:13):
I like strawberries. I don't like chocolate covered strawberries
Yeah, I think you need to make an appointment with your therapist and not their fault that you have problems
You need to make an appointment to fuck you, okay? Because there's validity to this
All right, but okay, but here's the thing. Oh, I like chocolate and I like Oreos
And I love chocolate tip Oreos

(11:36):
But it's so it's I don't mind combinations, but notice they're both sweet
Talking about Oreos I sent you a picture. I got the post-molone Oreos
And that fucking bag was like almost five dollars at the Walmart, but I know but Keter they're delicious
You know, they're the combination is the following thing it is one chocolate Oreo

(11:56):
With a short bread, flavored cream and then and then it has another little white Oreo on the other side
It tastes like short bread delicious. You must try this Oreo
Somebody has a more take one I'm not gonna buy a bag post-molone Oreos everybody
I'm not gonna buy a bag so
I want a bitch

(12:17):
Mariela I'll eat the whole fucking bag, okay? Yeah, you would they're really yummy
No, you know, do you do you want to know a secret how you'd Oreos? This is the best fat ass moment ever
I'm gonna tell you a secret how you Oreos, okay?
Get a cup like you know like a juice cup. It's like a smaller cup or you can get a mug and take like
Several Oreos like four or five Oreos and put it in the cup and then pour really cold milk over it and eat it with a spoon

(12:40):
I love that. That's what I do too
That should still because the thing is to the cream in the middle gets a little hard as a chocolate gets all soft and gooey
That is so good, but the problem is it goes down so easy
That 20 minutes later like half the box is gone and the promise I have no fucking guilt over it
Why have a high a1c so I have no fucking guilt over it

(13:02):
So we are gonna stick frozen grapes and if somebody has these Oreos or maybe I'll buy them for something
I'll take one so I can try it. Oh my god, you ready too?
That's that's probably called a red food Mariela. I have to document that so better be really good
Oh my god, how annoying. Listen, okay, so make your frozen grapes
This is gonna be something that could carry you along through the spring the summer

(13:23):
This is like on any time kind of treat which I think is good for kids and adults who need help with
Crushing their sweet tooth. I don't know about pomegranate so I keep thinking about them
It's almost like eating a grape seed anyway. We love you guys enjoy this recipe and we'll catch you soon. Bye-bye