Coconut oil

I don't think so

Hi I use Coconut Oil in all of my cooking which requires frying or heating at high temperatures. It gives a lovely taste and aroma to the food and is extremely healthy. My oil of choice definitely although a bit pricey and I had to search around to buy it and ended up sourcing it from a small health food shop in Colchester.

Faye that reminds me of a friend who said «I made your red Thai fish curry last night. I used chicken instead and green Thai paste though.» hmmmm....what part of that was my recipe???

Mrsmop will PM it to you when I get back home tomorrow.

I made these Jamaican Veggie Patties yesterday, very yummy. I added turmeric and garum masala to the lentils and left out the corn, cabbage, allspice, carrots, thyme, coconut milk (but used the coconut oil). I added water to make it a sloppy mixture. It's probably now more Faye's Lentil Pasties than Jamaican Veggie Patties but they were delicious. I omitted the vinegar from the pastry too.

Can we have the recipe for the brown rice and lentil nut loaf please?
Sounds yummy!

TMI Bags

Coconut certainly has a laxative effect on me. I ate a whole Bounty bar recently, with serious consequences!

Mind you, lots of things have a laxative effect on me – peppers, nettle tea...

Enough!

Presume mishap it was coconut rather that coconut oil that had the laxative effect?

Mmm. I'm going to try that too.

Nothing ventured Faye your spiced recipe looks better than my plain one so might try that instead

Zucchini Bread sounded yummy so I googled the recipe Aka as I haven't made it with coconut oil before. I also prefer coconut oil to butter and margarine. I normally use it for frying an egg or tomatoes and spread it on my toast. It doesn't really have a taste even though it does smell coconutty when you first start to use it.

Can't stand coconut in any form.

Dr Weil sounds a bit like Dr Ali [I've got his nutrition bible]. I did follow a lot of what Dr Ali said a few years ago and felt better than I've ever felt before but lapsed into eating badly again. Looking at the foods recommended by Dr Weil I've been pretty much following that sort of diet for a couple of weeks; not sure if I feel good for it or not because I hate humidity and this weather makes me feel rotten. I've been using coconut oil on my skin [trying to find cheaper moisturisers] and eating some of it as well in smoothies; not bothered about it being saturated fat as eat very little fat anyway. But grateful for the warning of it's laxative properties and will watch what time of day I eat it at .

That's really helpful Bags sort of supports what Mishap was saying about its laxative properties. Might need to rethink that one! However Mr Bags has made good point about western diet methinks.

Actually Ana the lentil and brown rice nut roast was surprisingly tasty

Thanks mishap and Jess for your concern.

I just asked him, aka. He said it is the most highly saturated naturally occurring oil so is therefore good food. However, the important thing about it is the type of saturation. Apparently it contains (hope I remember this correctly) medium chain fatty acids which cannot be converted to triglycerides and therefore cannot be stored as fat in our body cells. So if you eat it, you either burn the calories or shit it out get rid of it.

I then mentioned the high levels of obesity in Pacific islands. He maintains (presumably via Mark Sissons) that where that occurs people have largely converted to western diets, and/or eat (as I said before) a lot of very high carb, low nutrients foods such as cava and yam.

I'm going out for the evening so won't be on here again until later.

I used to have coconut as a laxative - goes through me like a dose of salts! - until OH pointed out that perhaps I should not be quite so liberal with it as it is chock full of cholesterol. I have cut back a bit.

Sorry to hear of your health problems Aka and hope that things settle soon.

(Good job it's not an insane book...)

Sounds, er....wonderful, Aka!

brown rice.....

PPS talking of health fads, I'm trying out another recipe from the sane book, so DH has a treat in store when be returns from his walk....lentil and Brian rice nut roast. Yum, yum

PS Bags can you ask DH what he thinks the health properties are...unless that will expose you to an exceedingly boring lecture?

Thanks to everyone. I think I'll try the recipe once, as I've bought the stuff and see if it's worth eating first, then worry about the fats. I can always use it as a hair conditioner or body oil or might try it as a furniture polish if all else fails.
Two of the fats are lauric acid and myristic acid one of which is supposed to help restore memory loss, but I can't remember which one that was

I've got some which I tried on my hair....didn't do anything.......and on my body...................there are better things!
I would never eat it, I think it's horrible.