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African Inspired Vegetarian Crockpot Soup with Peanut Butter Chiles Brown Rice and Lentils

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African-Inspired Vegetarian Crockpot Soup with Peanut Butter, Chiles, Brown Rice, and Lentils would be delicious for Meatless Monday. In Utah the spring weather can change in a minute, and I always like to have soup in the freezer for those days when the weather suddenly gets cold.  Before I moved I made this soup with Jake to re-shoot the photos and I had several containers in my freezer on moving day.  Sadly, that soup (and a whole cooler full of food) was ruined in one of those moving tragedies where something gets put in the wrong spot and isn't discovered for days.  On Saturday I had a few friends over for dinner, so I made more of this tasty soup, and now I'm happy to  have some in my freezer again! Click to continue reading

True or False Butter Ghee Lard Tallow Are Saturated Animals Fats the Kings and Queens of the Frying Pan

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Even if animal fats were the best frying fats, this wouldnt turn  doughnuts into "health food" and french fries into raw carrot sticks. If you "liked" the SuppVersity on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SuppVersity) you will probably already have seen the controversies and questions my post "Scientists on the Quest for the Perfect Frying Oil" (read more) has triggered. Eventually, it all revolves about yet another of those nutritional wisdoms thats circulating on the Internet: "Ghee, tallow, lard, ... saturated animal fats and the coconut micacle, of course, are the best and only frying oils you should use ." (next best Internet source) How on earth could F. Aladedunye, and R. Przybylski, the authors of the previously cited study even dare stating that high-oleic low-linolenic rapeseed , high-oleic sunflower oils are good frying oils? But enough of the sarcasm : In todays installment of "True or False" (read previous installments) we will...