Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to increase your oil vocabulary.
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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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fat Full Fall'
Monday Mission: Finalize your Fat Vocabulary
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Fat Full Fall, Monday Missions
Tags: Fat Full Fall·fats and oils
Food for Thought: Lard and Tallow, Healthy Fats?
November 10th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition
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
How to Make Ghee (Clarified Butter)
November 6th, 2009 · 17 Comments · Do It Yourself, Fat Full Fall, recipes
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 any [...]
Tags: Fat Full Fall·fats·ghee
Food for Thought: What’s the Deal With Coconut Oil?
November 2nd, 2009 · 12 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition
Photo source: MeetaK
Coconut oil is perhaps one of the more divisive fats/oils out there, because the mainstream puts it at the very top of the “bad fats” list, while the traditional foodie folks seek it out as the healthiEST of fats (or so it feels at times, but maybe it’s because we’re engaging in an [...]
Food for Thought: Canola Oil, a Unique Omega-3…Thumbs up or Thumbs Down???
October 27th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition
I used to use Canola oil almost exclusively as my liquid fat for baking. The popular press said it was the healthy oil. I felt really good – you know that feeling? – when I used it in quick breads, etc. I would even brag about my “healthy food”. Hmph. Now there’s a whole bunch [...]
Mental Mission: Soybean and Corn, Where Are You?
October 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Fat Full Fall
Do you know what’s on your dinner plate tonight? Your salad? In your breakfast cereal? If you’re eating like most Americans, there’s an awful lot of corn and soybeans. Since we’re looking at fats this fall, here’s your mental challenge over the weekend:
Find all the places in your cupboards (just scan as you cook/eat) where [...]
A Fat Full Fall: Dairy fats – What’s the Moo?
October 13th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Science of Nutrition, What to Buy
Ah, the French know their fats. When my husband worked with a Frenchman, he reminisced about this time of year in France: “Fall is the best time of year because the food is so wonderful: the fish are fatter, the cream is plentiful, and the vegetables being harvested are some of my favorites.” Yep, he [...]
Tags: dairy·Fat Full Fall·fats·homogenization·oxidized cholesterol·saturated fats
