Want to know what to do with coconut oil? How to substitute one kind of fat for another? Wish you always knew what to do with your fats and how to adapt recipes to avoid the industrial fats that you’re just not into anymore? For more on how to cook traditional foods and use traditional [...]
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to increase your oil vocabulary. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps This is the final Fat Full Fall mission! I’ll share a baseline fats post this week breaking down what to use in what situation, and then we’re finished. Done. We’ve chewed the Fat. Now the [...]
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I’ve got a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder at times. For example: as a child, every week during the 45-minute drive on the way back from dance class , I would consume a small order of McDonald’s French fries. (That’s not the OCD yet.) It took nearly the entire time because I’d eat them like this: [...]
If you asked me a year ago what “tallow” was, I probably would have given you an answer worthy of Balderdash (I ROCK out that game!). Like: “A build up of ear wax in the inner ear canal that results in partial hearing loss in the elderly.” Oh yeah. Two points for that one for [...]
Tags: Fat Full Fall·fats·lard·tallow·trans fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to relax about animal fats. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Baby Steps (“Making Strides” emotionally for some of you) Believe me, I know this is a tough one. I used to spend a LOT of time cutting off every single little tiny bit of fat from every [...]
Tags: fats·lard·saturated fats·tallow
Ghee is one of those fats I had never heard of a year ago. Would you know ghee if you bumped into some on the street? Ghee, pronounced with a hard “g” like “go” and a long “e” like “see”, is also called clarified butter, and it’s pure butterfat with the milk solids, impurities and [...]
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Coconuts aren’t nuts; they’re a fruit. Coconut milk isn’t milk; it’s juice. Coconut oil doesn’t act at all the way any self-respecting “oil” should; it doesn’t pour (at least in my state much of the year!) but is solid at room temperature. Can you say, “contradiction in terms?” I’ve never encountered a food more odd [...]
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