Daddy- Coconut oil
So for many months I've been figuring out how to cook with Virgin Coconut Oil, what it works in, plus tastes best in, based on what my dad likes best. After I scrape myself off the floor and try to ignore being in excruciating pain, I MAKE MYSELF do this.
My crappy ex bff alex would tell me years ago that her super natural obsessed mom always cooked with it, so I was curious about it, but then I started googling keywords dementia +coconut oil, and reading how it works in our body/brain, and that the 1st clinical trials are starting soon to verify that it works like they think. The anecdotal stories online are awesome though and even if it doesn't end up a magical cure, it's obviously super healthy anyway, so I still like giving it to him.
Its the KETONES! Our brain can run on that, when its main fuel of glucose has problems being metabolized by our brain, which happens, as dementia is considered in some Neurology textbooks I've perused as a "diabetes of the brain", where 1 test for confirming dementia diagnosis measures how well their brain uptakes glucose. My dad's test showed his was definitely less efficient at using it than normal, but not like... awful or anything. It may be the reason they supposedly crave sweets, because if their brain has a hard time using it they try to at least get more of it.
So... it's like alternative fuel! So I was like fuck, I gotta get it into him stat! Then maybe he can think at normal levels and remember words better. You just replace butter or oil in your cooking.
I used to use my handy food stamp card and get jars of it from Whole foods- $10, but we went through those quick, now it's cheaper for me to buy this big ass Nutiva gallon barrel of it, when I use a coupon code!
Plus luckily it's like the hot trend right now, so more people know this stuff about it-- a few drops will un-frizz hair (and we live in the fuckin gross humid jungle) tho not too much I've discovered or itll look like Soul Glo, also its the BEST skin moisturizer, it's anti-fungal and can cure toe fungus and crap like that, yadda yadda yadda.. you can google it if u dont know, but its just wayy fuckin multi-purpose I'm sayin. you could grease yer butt up with it.
I'm gonna keep this list to keep track of which foods are best to put coconut oil into. Because... even if the taste is ok in the food, sometimes the texture is tough to work with, because it hardens above 76 degrees. Sooo... when I'm baking, all ingredients have to be at room temp., gotta take eggs out hours early, sometimes I've had to use a metal bowl then put it over another bowl with hot water to re-liquify the coconut oil for certain batters and recipes or there'll be big balls floating in the cookie dough or whatnot. It can be a huuuge BITCH! With c.c. cookie dough, since he likes it warm and freshly baked, I put it in balls, then put in bags in the fridge, though it gets these tiny dots on it after 2/3 wks-- maybe the VCO getting hard within dough? Sometimes it tastes too coconutt-y and he vetoes it. [VCO= Virgin coconut oil.]
Things I've wracked my goddamn brain to think of:
Most Successful Foods to use VCO in
Chocolate Chip cookies! #1! [regular or Jacques Torres recipe]
Rice Krispie Treats (tastes perfect, but dad isn't a fan of these in general I learned)
Brownies
Magic shell (like the Dipped cones he used to get from dairy queen) over vanilla ice cream
Pancakes (best cooking oil choice ever for these)
Overnight recipe Cinnamon sugar French toast
Buttermilk Biscuits
Overnight Biscuit Cheddar casserole
Loaf of choc chip banana/pumpkin bread
Slathered onto a hot baguette/roll, then I'd put a pat of butter OVER it to hide it and disguise the taste :D
Tomato soup
Failures
Whoopie Pies, the pie and the filling (in place of shortening)
Cupcakes
Maybe
Cooking oil with scrambled eggs- a few times I didn't taste it, but a couple times the eggs tasted coconutty which doesn't work, maybe I just put too much those times?
Oatmeal with brown sugar/butter. Online they recommend putting it in oatmeal, tastes good, but he wouldn't eat it a few times.
These lists definitely reflect my own cooking skillz, I'm best with breakfast/dessert/easy things and have trouble with main dishes. I'll try to remember more and update this list as I go.
My crappy ex bff alex would tell me years ago that her super natural obsessed mom always cooked with it, so I was curious about it, but then I started googling keywords dementia +coconut oil, and reading how it works in our body/brain, and that the 1st clinical trials are starting soon to verify that it works like they think. The anecdotal stories online are awesome though and even if it doesn't end up a magical cure, it's obviously super healthy anyway, so I still like giving it to him.
Its the KETONES! Our brain can run on that, when its main fuel of glucose has problems being metabolized by our brain, which happens, as dementia is considered in some Neurology textbooks I've perused as a "diabetes of the brain", where 1 test for confirming dementia diagnosis measures how well their brain uptakes glucose. My dad's test showed his was definitely less efficient at using it than normal, but not like... awful or anything. It may be the reason they supposedly crave sweets, because if their brain has a hard time using it they try to at least get more of it.
So... it's like alternative fuel! So I was like fuck, I gotta get it into him stat! Then maybe he can think at normal levels and remember words better. You just replace butter or oil in your cooking.
I used to use my handy food stamp card and get jars of it from Whole foods- $10, but we went through those quick, now it's cheaper for me to buy this big ass Nutiva gallon barrel of it, when I use a coupon code!
Plus luckily it's like the hot trend right now, so more people know this stuff about it-- a few drops will un-frizz hair (and we live in the fuckin gross humid jungle) tho not too much I've discovered or itll look like Soul Glo, also its the BEST skin moisturizer, it's anti-fungal and can cure toe fungus and crap like that, yadda yadda yadda.. you can google it if u dont know, but its just wayy fuckin multi-purpose I'm sayin. you could grease yer butt up with it.
I'm gonna keep this list to keep track of which foods are best to put coconut oil into. Because... even if the taste is ok in the food, sometimes the texture is tough to work with, because it hardens above 76 degrees. Sooo... when I'm baking, all ingredients have to be at room temp., gotta take eggs out hours early, sometimes I've had to use a metal bowl then put it over another bowl with hot water to re-liquify the coconut oil for certain batters and recipes or there'll be big balls floating in the cookie dough or whatnot. It can be a huuuge BITCH! With c.c. cookie dough, since he likes it warm and freshly baked, I put it in balls, then put in bags in the fridge, though it gets these tiny dots on it after 2/3 wks-- maybe the VCO getting hard within dough? Sometimes it tastes too coconutt-y and he vetoes it. [VCO= Virgin coconut oil.]
Things I've wracked my goddamn brain to think of:
Most Successful Foods to use VCO in
Chocolate Chip cookies! #1! [regular or Jacques Torres recipe]
Rice Krispie Treats (tastes perfect, but dad isn't a fan of these in general I learned)
Brownies
Magic shell (like the Dipped cones he used to get from dairy queen) over vanilla ice cream
Pancakes (best cooking oil choice ever for these)
Overnight recipe Cinnamon sugar French toast
Buttermilk Biscuits
Overnight Biscuit Cheddar casserole
Loaf of choc chip banana/pumpkin bread
Slathered onto a hot baguette/roll, then I'd put a pat of butter OVER it to hide it and disguise the taste :D
Tomato soup
Failures
Whoopie Pies, the pie and the filling (in place of shortening)
Cupcakes
Maybe
Cooking oil with scrambled eggs- a few times I didn't taste it, but a couple times the eggs tasted coconutty which doesn't work, maybe I just put too much those times?
Oatmeal with brown sugar/butter. Online they recommend putting it in oatmeal, tastes good, but he wouldn't eat it a few times.
These lists definitely reflect my own cooking skillz, I'm best with breakfast/dessert/easy things and have trouble with main dishes. I'll try to remember more and update this list as I go.