Coconut Oil Recipies
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
—Hippocrates (borrowed gratefully from Perfect Health Meditation Challenge, day 11, Deepak Chopra)
I have ordered 12 pound pots of coconut oil and a 10kg tub. It will keep until 2015 in our cellar, so they say, and I saved a lot on transport costs. Those in UK don't pay freight, I do.
Today I got to wondering how I can use coconut oil in our diet, really integrate it. Right now I have to conserve the two pots I originally bought, so my creativity stretches to a very frothy cappucino with a thin layer of nutty oil under the froth, to be sipped with pleasure. Mum absolutely loves that.
I have a carrot cake recipe, heart healthy, usually made with olive oil..... when my coconut oil stash arrives I am going to make a coconut oil and carrot cake. Something that people who don't have dementia will savour. I am really curious to see how Best Beloved and I will fare on the stuff. Today, just to kick the smart eating off well, I made turkey fillets in a Creole sauce, spicy, coconutty, and much much nicer than I would have expected. Better than butter or olive oil, if I am honest.
There is something in these plant fats that nourish the brain. In the 1980's we used to take a large tablespoon of lecithin granules (soya fat) in a smoothie for breakfast. It was such a mood-enhancer that we laughed uproariously all the way to work, despite traffic chaos in Munich. At the same time, I convinced Mum to use lecithin on her museli daily and her dreadful migraines disappeared, so I am not surprised now that Mum thrives on coconut oil. Does she have some innate deficiency that specific plant fats help allieviate? What will replacing our fats with coconut oil do to our mental lives? I am so curious.
Does anyone have any good recipies using coconut oil? Perhaps we can swap and share? Bon appetit!
Oops, almost forgot! This post reflects my experiences and views on using coconut oil to facilitate Mum's recall of words and ease the symptoms of dementia. It is personal, and what works for Mum may not work for others. No guarantees, nothing prescriptive.
Guess what! We all listened to the Perfect Health meditation together, and then Mum looked at the clock and said, "Oh look, its a quarter to eleven". First time she has read the time in a year!