Cooking Slim @StudyItOnline

Month 1: Fighting fat with fat.

Tags: animal fat, fat, fats, hydrogenated, olive oil, vegetable oil

The body was not made to metabolize as much unsaturated fat as people eat today.

Tags: Facts About Food, fatty liver, fatty liver syndrome, food safety, hepatic lipidosis, lipidosis, liver disease, rancid, rancid oil, safety, vegetable oil, yellow liver

What to use when you can’t find masa harina or maseca or nixtamal or hominy flour.

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Tags: corn flour, harina, home made taco shell, hominy flour, masa, masa harina, masa harina substitution, masa substitute, maseca substitute, mexican, mexican food, substitution, taco, taco shell, tamale, tex mex

How to make chicken schmaltz (rendered chicken fat).

Tags: animal fat, chicken, chicken fat, chicken schmaltz, rendered chicken fat, rendered fat, schmaltz

There is no good reason to buy canned tomato or spaghetti sauce when you have fresh tomatoes available. Here’s a quick and easy way to make your own real tomato sauce with no additives.

Tags: fresh, fresh tomato, fresh tomato sauce, italian, italian food, mexican, pomodoro, real italian tomato sauce, real salsa, real tomato sauce, salsa, sauce, spanish, tex mex, tomato, tomato sauce

Principles that encourage me to keep fit, and have helped in losing the extra poundage.

Tags: fitness, philosophy, principles

The debate as to which is better, animal or vegetable based fats, is as yet ongoing. It’s impossible for someone who isn’t a biologist to parse the information correctly, so for my own efforts, I looked into the past.

Tags: animal fat, beef fat, butter, chicken fat, lard, moderation, olive oil, palm oil, pork fat, rendered fat, schmaltz

The healthy eating routine begins anew at FitMama’s house.

Tags: bean, chick peas, chickpea, cornbread, white beans