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Pan Seared and Roasted Mahi Mahi with Mediterranean Salsa and Feta

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Pan-seared and Roasted Mahi Mahi with Mediterranean Salsa and Feta is an easy week-night dinner. I'm trying to eat fish as often as I can, so when a reader named John sent me the recipe link for Virginia Anthony's Mediterranean Mahi Mahi from Taste of Home, first I thought "YUM" and then I thought about how I could adapt the recipe to make it suitable for our month of Daily Phase One Recipes .  John told me how much he had enjoyed this dish, and when Jake and I adapted the recipe a little and tested it, we both loved it too; in fact we both cleaned our plates even though it was on a day when we'd already sampled several recipes!  This is a quick week-night dinner and f you can't find Mahi Mahi you could make this with another firm-textured fish like halibut, tuna, shark, swordfish, or cod.  (There's only one more day of Daily Phase One Recipes!  You can see all the recipes from the month by clicking Daily Phase One Recipes .  Check after the recipe for Pha...

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...