I had to look rice bran up. I shall get some for those celeriac chips. The diet doctor recipe says olive oil which the cancer dietician says must not be used for cooking. She recommended rapeseed. Hubby loved his chicken and chips so I do like to do the best equivalent I can. He actually claims to prefer the celeriac to chippy chips. Bless him. I use a lot more butter than you but I use a smidge for my breakfast omelette, fry bratwurst and add it to mash (celeriac, sweet potato or carrot) so it all mounts up. Thank you for all the interesting information.
Yum. We had duck Wednesday. I rubbed paprika and black pepper into the skin. Very tasty. I cook meat in its own juices too Unless it is chicken/duck I will add root veg to the pan to cook in the juices for the last hour. I use butter to line my baking dishes and fry pans too. I have just run out of sesame oil so I was wondering whether I should replace it. Since I always have butter and because leeks and mushrooms (which are usually in my stir fries) do lend themselves to butter that seems a much better solution
Each to their own when it comes to oils/fats but I knew I'd already eliminated rapeseed oil for myself, so dug out this article
It was a quick dig. I have no doubt I could dig up far better. Each to their own.
I'd hate to call it a fat war.
The dietician did specify oil must always be cold pressed altbough I have been told that term is meaningless marketing jargon. I am sure you will not be surprised to hear that she based her advice on the eatwell plate and was of the 10 per day rainbow fruit and veg persuasion. Most people are unconcerned about the use of GM, neoncotinoids, glypho + chemical legacy of fracking and gassification so it is interesting those elements get frequent mentions by the anti rapeseed/canola lobby. So many foodstuffs are affected by those issues I do not know how to select an oil free from them. I could press my own of course but even if I overcame the challenge of rmounting the practicalities there is still the question of airborne and waterborne pollution.
interestingly according to this article refined olive oil is nearly has good as rice bran or safflower oil. Yet butter is not much better than virgin olive oil http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/cooking-fats-101-whats-a-smoke-point-and-why-does-it-matter.html the recommendations are
I am wondering if anything "the government experts" say can be believed. At least ex lidl products are a decent quality. Many mills sell stone ground flours and even if they are genuinely ground on site they omit to discuss the nature of the sites rodent population. You just do not want to know what the machinery looks like a few days before the open day. Then there is the whole question of where homemade jams and chutneys were created.
That is brilliant. Sadly I find I have to restrict fruits and the sugar/starch carbs as I get "one of my heads" if I have more than the tiniest amount of sugar. That rules out the eatwell plate for me. I do try everything to see if I can include the item in my diet and seem to be OK with root veg, lentils and beans but cannot cope with porridge. Yet I was bought up on porridge for breakfast.
