Thread: calorie ratios

Originally Posted by judojosh

You just BLEW my mind here!

Shit - that was easy! Okay, what else can I come up with...

Originally Posted by judojosh

Coconut flour? Shaving with coconut oil? WTF!! I feel like I have been been missing out now!! lol

Coconut oil is a wonderful skin cleanser. It doesn't strip the sebum - it just clears off the surface oils and dirt. My husband has suffered acne for as long as I can remember, and now that he uses coconut oil instead of soap, it's under control. Use it in the shower, with a loofah or those cheap nylon scrubbie gloves. I keep an old haircolour applicator and a yogurt tub in the shower. Melt the oil, pour into the dispenser (a plastic mustard bottle would work, too) and keep it in the stall. It'll harden but it melts easily - just fill the yogurt tub with hot water, toss in the bottle of oil, and by the time you finish washing your hair, it'll have melted enough to use). I pour a few tablespoons into my hands with the wet gloves and just scrub my body that way. I shave my legs in the shower, you need your skin wet FIRST, to soften the hairs, and then the oil on top as a lubricant for the blade. You'll get the best shave of your life with a shitty disposable bic razor using coconut oil. BTW I don't use extra virgin for this - I just get the cheap stuff from the south Asian market.

Originally Posted by judojosh

What other flours do you use? Currently when I do use a flour, which is pretty rare, it is almond meal (ground up almonds)

I really don't bake a lot, but the odd time I do I use corn flour with some coconut flour mixed in, sometimes some rice flour and or sorghum. You really need a bit of guar gum or it doesn't hold together. If I do a carbup, I often make a rice pudding with dextrose; sometimes I make blueberry pancakes and I user corn flour for those.

You can make Philippino-style steamed rice muffins called puto with coconut milk, rice flour and baking powder - a can of the milk, a can of the flour, a tablespoon of baking powder, a half a teaspoon of seasalt and a bit of dextrose to taste, pour into muffin cups set into custard cups and steam for about half an hour. Delish. You can put blueberries in them, too.

I sometimes make dosa from besan (chickpea flour), sometimes with a bit of rice flour if I want them crispier. And if I'm dredging chicken to panfry, I usually just use a bit of cornflour. But that's pretty much it. I don't eat starches daily and usually it's something simpler, like white rice or white potatoes, or lately corn on the cob because it's in season.

Originally Posted by judojosh

hmmm I wonder if I can shave my beard with EVCO??

You most certainly can. Please see above.

Originally Posted by judojosh

Looks like I will be using a new shaving cream tomorrow morning also what would you say your favorite curry recipe is? Mind sharing?

I use spice paste to start them - the only two I make are butter chicken (Indian) and yellow coconut milk chicken curry (Thai). I doctor up the butter chicken recipe with ground cashews, full-fat yogurt and coconut milk. To the Thai curry I add whole toasted cashews - they're lovely in a chicken curry.

I mix jasmine and basmati rice 50-50 and call it jasmati. They're both fragrant and can never decide which I prefer, so I mix 'em.

Originally Posted by judojosh

A had recently asked elsewhere for avocado suggestions and was told to try and pan fry avocado in some EVCO and plan on trying that out along with your other marvelous avocado suggestions this week

Panfried avocado? I think it'll just melt. You can melt it into rice, Chinese style. The Chinese name for avocado translates roughly into butter fruit.