Coconut flour

Myra wrote:
:: Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got a 2-
:: pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit this
:: weekend.

Good for shrimp!

Roger Zoul said:

Myra wrote:

:: Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got a 2-
:: pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit this
:: weekend.

Good for shrimp!

What do you do with it and shrimp? I never got much into shellfish
cookery - a cultural handicap of mine. 🙂

I did just make some drop biscuits, which the BF pronounced as pretty
good. I'll try one tomorrow at breakfast (too late to try tonight).
I'll be trying out a brownie recipe to take to the D&D game on
Saturday. Since the D&Ders munch on carby junk food all day, I'll
have to provide my own eats, but I want to bring something to share,
too.

Coconut oil and other coconut products now constitute an important
part of my dietary intake. Since I've been "adopted" by the trainer/
nutritionist six weeks ago, I've had to make some really radical
changes. No caffeine, soda, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, natural
sweeteners derived from corn (erythritol), soy, pork, oils other than
virgin coconut and olive, etc. This has forced me to learn how to
work with stevia, and I've also acquired some lo han gao, which I need
to test on myself (hope it tastes good).

I was never a big coffee drinker, but I did enjoy a cup in the
morning. I'm expecting a shipment of roasted chicory tomorrow, and
I'll find out if it's tasty. I've also discovered rooibus tea, which
isn't a bad substitute for black tea. Sweet Leaf brand stevia in
packets (bulked out with inulin) isn't bad, and the bitter aftertaste
can be compensated for by *undersweetening* and using a bit of vanilla
flavoring (can't use extracts - no alcohol allowed!).

Myra

Myra said:

Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got a 2-
pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit this weekend.

Hi Myra, Hy everyone,

I'm curious: what does it look like?
Is it like coconut flakes,only very finely powdered?

I'm going to a asian supermarket, this morning. I'll try and find these :-)

Huey

Myra wrote:
:: On Aug 2, 10:46 pm, "Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote:
::: Myra wrote:
:::
::::: Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got
::::: a 2- pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit
::::: this weekend.
:::
::: Good for shrimp!
::
:: What do you do with it and shrimp? I never got much into shellfish
:: cookery - a cultural handicap of mine. 🙂

Coconut shrimp! I guess I thought you'd get that one! 🙂

::
:: I did just make some drop biscuits, which the BF pronounced as pretty
:: good. I'll try one tomorrow at breakfast (too late to try tonight).
:: I'll be trying out a brownie recipe to take to the D&D game on
:: Saturday. Since the D&Ders munch on carby junk food all day, I'll
:: have to provide my own eats, but I want to bring something to share,
:: too.
::

That sounds good. Did you make some LC macarons, too?

:: Coconut oil and other coconut products now constitute an important
:: part of my dietary intake. Since I've been "adopted" by the trainer/
:: nutritionist six weeks ago, I've had to make some really radical
:: changes. No caffeine, soda, alcohol, artificial sweeteners, natural
:: sweeteners derived from corn (erythritol), soy, pork, oils other than
:: virgin coconut and olive, etc. This has forced me to learn how to
:: work with stevia, and I've also acquired some lo han gao, which I
:: need to test on myself (hope it tastes good).
::

Trainer sounds like a real "guru".

What's wrong with pork? Pork rules, honey. Trainer dude be gone over this
way. 🙂

What's wrong with caffeine, i.e., coffee? huh!

Stevia!?! [censored]. Perfection is hard work!

I'm wondering how long this love affair can last, Myra! Which chants are
you doing every morning?

:: I was never a big coffee drinker, but I did enjoy a cup in the
:: morning. I'm expecting a shipment of roasted chicory tomorrow, and
:: I'll find out if it's tasty. I've also discovered rooibus tea, which
:: isn't a bad substitute for black tea. Sweet Leaf brand stevia in
:: packets (bulked out with inulin) isn't bad, and the bitter aftertaste
:: can be compensated for by *undersweetening* and using a bit of
:: vanilla flavoring (can't use extracts - no alcohol allowed!).
::
:: Myra

Rooibus tea. That sounds cool. I'm sorry about the stevia, but it just
sucks. I guess if anyone can make it taste good, it'd be you!

Hueyduck said:

I'm curious: what does it look like?
Is it like coconut flakes,only very finely powdered?

It's not liked dried, grated coconut - it's a fine, dry powder. It's
made from what's leftover from the coconut oil process. So, it's very
high in fiber.

I had a biscuit with breakfast this morning - warm with a little
butter and a few drops of grape-flavored stevia drops. Fantastic!

Quoted message said:

I'm going to a asian supermarket, this morning. I'll try and find these :-)

I haven't seen it at my local Asian market - I got mine at my local
low carb store. However, you can get it online - along with recipes:
www.tropicaltraditions.com

Myra

Roger Zoul said:

:: What do you do with it and shrimp? I never got much into shellfish
:: cookery - a cultural handicap of mine. 🙂

Coconut shrimp! I guess I thought you'd get that one! 🙂

Again - culturally handicapped here! LOL!

Re the drop biscuits:

Quoted message said:

That sounds good. Did you make some LC macarons, too?

No macaroons until I decide the Lo Han is worth using. I can't use
stevia where a *lot* of sweetening is required - it's just too bitter.

Quoted message said:

Trainer sounds like a real "guru".

He's a sweetheart, actually. I'm going to be working for and with
him, and we're working on a cookbook at the moment. There's some
other interesting stuff coming down the line, too. 🙂

Quoted message said:

What's wrong with pork? Pork rules, honey. Trainer dude be gone over this
way. 🙂

I'm not sure what the problem is with it - but I'll ask him. It's not
really a problem for me because, except for bacon, I didn't use pork
that much anyway (again - cultural handicap!). I did use ground pork
for my homemade sausage patties, but now I use ground dark meat turkey
(I need to add some extra fat to it, though - it's a tad too lean).

Quoted message said:

What's wrong with caffeine, i.e., coffee? huh!

Well, for one thing, it raises BG levels. For another, it's a
stimulant, with someone with PD (like me) doesn't really need. What
ticks me off is that my chicory was supposed to arrive today, and UPS
screwed it up. Argh.

Quoted message said:

Stevia!?! [censored]. Perfection is hard work!

Yeah, that's been a challenge. Yep.

Quoted message said:

I'm wondering how long this love affair can last, Myra! Which chants are
you doing every morning?

No chants - too busy lifting weights or walking on the treadmill!
Actually, I checked out his theories with my doctor, and the doc said
they were valid. Anyway, I've lost weight, my blood sugars are
normalizing, and I feel terrific - so where my guru leads, I follow!

Quoted message said:

Rooibus tea. That sounds cool. I'm sorry about the stevia, but it just
sucks. I guess if anyone can make it taste good, it'd be you!

Rooibus tea is from Africa - it's also called a red tea. The nice
thing is that the longer you let it steep, the better it tastes. I
had some with dinner tonight - just plonked a bag into the pot and let
it steep the whole meal, as poured out my cups. It was nice, and I
don't have to worry about it keeping me up later on.

Now, one invention of mine has been to create a low-carb, all natural
copy of a McGriddle sandwich. I've come darned close, too. I call it
a MockGriddle.

Myra

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Quoted message said:

Roger Zoul said:

Myra wrote:

:: Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got a 2-
:: pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit this
:: weekend.

Good for shrimp!

What do you do with it and a shrimp?

Wow, now THERE is a setup if I ever heard one ;-))))

Ummmm....

Ummmm....

Roll it in coconut flour and look for the whet spot?

(Whet, as in "whet your appetite) I can do better, hold on, hold on

Ummmmm.....

Jeez, shrimp + coconut flower, hmm. Hey, I'm doing my best here, I'm not
trying to give you the runt around.

Well, if worse comes to worse and you can't get a refund on your coconut
flower, maybe you can sell your shrimp at the prawn shop.

Let US know what YOU come up with!!

ObJ:

An ambitious ASDLC LTP (alt.support.diet.low-carb long term poster) finally
decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and
proceeded to have the time of his life... until the boat sank! The man found
himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no
supplies... Nothing. Only shrimp and coconut flour.

After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most
gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief he asks her:
"Where did you come from? How did you get here?"

"I rowed from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed here when
my cruise ship sank."

"Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up with
you."

"Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of raw material that
I found on the island; the oars were whittled from gum tree branches; I wove
the bottom from palm branches; and the sides and stern came from a
Eucalyptus tree."

"But-but, that's impossible," stutters the man. "You had no tools or
hardware. How did you manage?"

"Oh, that was no problem," replies the woman. "On the south side of the
island, there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found
that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into
forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools and used the tools to make the
hardware.

The guy is stunned.

"Let's row over to my place, " she says.

After a few minutes of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf. As the
man looks onto shore, he nearly falls out of the boat. Before him is a stone
walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the
woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only
stare ahead, dumb-struck.

As they walk into the house, her beautiful breasts bouncing with each step,
she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down please;
would you like to have a drink?"

"No thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut juice."

"It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I have a still. How about a
Pina Colada?"

Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepts, and they sit down
on her couch to talk.

After they have exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "I'm going to
slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and
shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom."

No longer questioning anything, the man goes into the bathroom. There, in
the cabinet, is a razor made from compressed coconut flour. Two shrimp honed
to a sharp edge are fastened onto its end, inside of a swivel mechanism.
"This woman is amazing," he muses.

"What next?"

When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but vines and a shell
necklace-strategically positioned-and smelling faintly of gardenias.

She beckons for him to sit down next to her.

"Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "we've been
out here for a very long time. You've been lonely. I've been lonely. There's
something I'm sure you really feel like doing right about now, something
you've been longing for all these months? You know... " She stares into his
eyes.

He can't believe what he's hearing. His heart begins to pound. He's truly in
luck: "You mean...", he gasps, "...I can actually post to Usenet from
here??"

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Quoted message said:

Hueyduck said:

I'm curious: what does it look like?
Is it like coconut flakes,only very finely powdered?

It's not liked dried, grated coconut - it's a fine, dry powder. It's
made from what's leftover from the coconut oil process. So, it's very
high in fiber.

I had a biscuit with breakfast this morning - warm with a little
butter and a few drops of grape-flavored stevia drops. Fantastic!

Quoted message said:

I'm going to a asian supermarket, this morning. I'll try and find these
:-)

I haven't seen it at my local Asian market - I got mine at my local
low carb store. However, you can get it online - along with recipes:
www.tropicaltraditions.com

Hi Myra

Would it be feasible to grind dried coconut flakes?

And if so, please will you share your recipe?

Myra wrote:
::: What's wrong with pork? Pork rules, honey. Trainer dude be gone
::: over this way. 🙂
::
:: I'm not sure what the problem is with it - but I'll ask him. It's
:: not really a problem for me because, except for bacon, I didn't use
:: pork that much anyway (again - cultural handicap!). I did use
:: ground pork for my homemade sausage patties, but now I use ground
:: dark meat turkey (I need to add some extra fat to it, though - it's
:: a tad too lean).

Ground turkey has it's place too. Some pork is quite lean, too.

::
::: What's wrong with caffeine, i.e., coffee? huh!
::
:: Well, for one thing, it raises BG levels.

I don't think that ever been a problem for me. In fact, I thought I read
the other day of the opposite!

::
:: No chants - too busy lifting weights or walking on the treadmill!
:: Actually, I checked out his theories with my doctor, and the doc said
:: they were valid. Anyway, I've lost weight, my blood sugars are
:: normalizing, and I feel terrific - so where my guru leads, I follow!

Well, lifting and walking tend to have a positive effect like that.

::
:: Now, one invention of mine has been to create a low-carb, all natural
:: copy of a McGriddle sandwich. I've come darned close, too. I call
:: it a MockGriddle.
::

Bring it on! MyraGriddle! 🙂 What's in that puppy (besides the obvious)?

em wrote:
:: "Myra" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:: news:[email hidden]...
::: On Aug 2, 10:46 pm, "Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote:
:::: Myra wrote:
::::
:::::: Is anyone using coconut flour instead of almond flour? I've got
:::::: a 2- pound bag, and plan to start playing around with it a bit
:::::: this weekend.
::::
:::: Good for shrimp!
:::
::: What do you do with it and a shrimp?
::
:: Wow, now THERE is a setup if I ever heard one ;-))))
::
:: Ummmm....
::
:: Ummmm....
::
:: Roll it in coconut flour and look for the whet spot?
::
:: (Whet, as in "whet your appetite) I can do better, hold on, hold on
::
:: Ummmmm.....
::
:: Jeez, shrimp + coconut flower, hmm. Hey, I'm doing my best here, I'm
:: not trying to give you the runt around.
::
:: Well, if worse comes to worse and you can't get a refund on your
:: coconut flower, maybe you can sell your shrimp at the prawn shop.
::
:: Let US know what YOU come up with!!
::
:: ObJ:
::
:: An ambitious ASDLC LTP (alt.support.diet.low-carb long term poster)
:: finally decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean
:: cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life... until the boat
:: sank! The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with
:: no other people, no supplies... Nothing. Only shrimp and coconut
:: flour.
::
:: After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the
:: most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief he
:: asks her: "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"
::
:: "I rowed from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed
:: here when my cruise ship sank."
::
:: "Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up
:: with you."
::
:: "Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of raw
:: material that I found on the island; the oars were whittled from gum
:: tree branches; I wove the bottom from palm branches; and the sides
:: and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree."
::
:: "But-but, that's impossible," stutters the man. "You had no tools or
:: hardware. How did you manage?"
::
:: "Oh, that was no problem," replies the woman. "On the south side of
:: the island, there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed.
:: I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it
:: melted into forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools and used
:: the tools to make the hardware.
::
:: The guy is stunned.
::
:: "Let's row over to my place, " she says.
::
:: After a few minutes of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf.
:: As the man looks onto shore, he nearly falls out of the boat. Before
:: him is a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue
:: and white. While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly
:: woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead, dumb-struck.
::
:: As they walk into the house, her beautiful breasts bouncing with
:: each step, she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home.
:: Sit down please; would you like to have a drink?"
::
:: "No thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut
:: juice."
::
:: "It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I have a still. How
:: about a Pina Colada?"
::
:: Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepts, and they
:: sit down on her couch to talk.
::
:: After they have exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "I'm
:: going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to
:: take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in
:: the bathroom."
::
:: No longer questioning anything, the man goes into the bathroom.
:: There, in the cabinet, is a razor made from compressed coconut
:: flour. Two shrimp honed to a sharp edge are fastened onto its end,
:: inside of a swivel mechanism. "This woman is amazing," he muses.
::
:: "What next?"
::
:: When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but vines and a shell
:: necklace-strategically positioned-and smelling faintly of gardenias.
::
:: She beckons for him to sit down next to her.
::
:: "Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "we've
:: been out here for a very long time. You've been lonely. I've been
:: lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right
:: about now, something you've been longing for all these months? You
:: know... " She stares into his eyes.
::
:: He can't believe what he's hearing. His heart begins to pound. He's
:: truly in luck: "You mean...", he gasps, "...I can actually post to
:: Usenet from here??"

🙂

That would have been the second thing I did.

x-no-archive: yes

Myra said:

Quoted message said:

What's wrong with caffeine, i.e., coffee? huh!

Well, for one thing, it raises BG levels.

Except it doesn't. Not in most folks, anyhow.

Susan

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Quoted message said:

Well, for one thing, it raises BG levels. For another, it's a
stimulant, with someone with PD (like me) doesn't really need. What
ticks me off is that my chicory was supposed to arrive today, and UPS
screwed it up. Argh.

I've had to stop drinking my beloved coffee (which, thankfully, never
interfered with my weight loss), and now I drink something called Dandy
Blend. I've mentioned it to several other folks who've tried it because
they had caffeine issues for one reason or another, and they've never gone
back to coffee...I get it at my local food co-op (along with my coconut
flour, nut flours, shirataki noodles, etc.) It's quite good! 🙂

--
Sherry
lowcarb.owly.net

UsenetID wrote:
:: I've had to stop drinking my beloved coffee (which, thankfully, never
:: interfered with my weight loss), and now I drink something called
:: Dandy Blend. I've mentioned it to several other folks who've tried
:: it because they had caffeine issues for one reason or another, and
:: they've never gone back to coffee...I get it at my local food co-op
:: (along with my coconut flour, nut flours, shirataki noodles, etc.)
:: It's quite good! 🙂

Dandy Blend? Well, what is this stuff?

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Quoted message said:

Dandy Blend? Well, what is this stuff?

from www.dandyblend.com:
Dandy Blend instant dandelion beverage is the only instant herbal coffee
substitute in the United States that features both the health benefits of
dandelion and the rich, full-bodied flavor, smoothness and texture of real
coffee. Many say that, because it lacks bitterness and acidity, it actually
tastes better than coffee.

from http://www.dandyblend.com/webpages/helpfulfor.htm#LowCarb:
Dandy Blend has only 1 gram of carbohydrate per cup, and that is mostly from
fructose contained in the dandelion and chicory roots.

Lots of interesting info about it there. I buy a big (24 oz, I think?) can
for about $15 and it lasts me well over a month, drinking about 3 cups (16
oz mugs, actually) a day. Although I do admit I add about a quarter-cup of
my husband's brewed coffee to my first mug in the morning 🙂. Best things -
no negative effects of any sort, and some health benefits from mineral
content - besides the great smooth coffee taste.

--
Sherry
lowcarb.owly.net

UsenetID wrote:
:: "Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:: news:[email hidden]...
::: Dandy Blend? Well, what is this stuff?
:: from www.dandyblend.com:
:: Dandy Blend instant dandelion beverage is the only instant herbal
:: coffee substitute in the United States that features both the health
:: benefits of dandelion and the rich, full-bodied flavor, smoothness
:: and texture of real coffee. Many say that, because it lacks
:: bitterness and acidity, it actually tastes better than coffee.
::
:: from http://www.dandyblend.com/webpages/helpfulfor.htm#LowCarb:
:: Dandy Blend has only 1 gram of carbohydrate per cup, and that is
:: mostly from fructose contained in the dandelion and chicory roots.
::
:: Lots of interesting info about it there. I buy a big (24 oz, I
:: think?) can for about $15 and it lasts me well over a month,
:: drinking about 3 cups (16 oz mugs, actually) a day. Although I do
:: admit I add about a quarter-cup of my husband's brewed coffee to my
:: first mug in the morning 🙂. Best things - no negative effects of
:: any sort, and some health benefits from mineral content - besides
:: the great smooth coffee taste.

Thanks for the info, Sherry. I might give this a shot. I like the coffee
taste but I don't like the fact that if I don't drink some in the morning,
I'll get a lack of caffeine headache.

em said:

He can't believe what he's hearing. His heart begins to pound. He's truly in
luck: "You mean...", he gasps, "...I can actually post to Usenet from
here??"

Oy.

Vey.

Ophelia said:

Would it be feasible to grind dried coconut flakes?

I don't think so. But you can buy it at www.tropicaltraditions.com or
www.simplycoconut.com, and you can get the recipe there, too:
http://www.simplycoconut.com/cf-recipes-download-pt2.htm

Oops - you're in the U.K., but here's a U.K. site: http://www.tiana-coconut.com/

The recipes are still at the Simply Coconut website, though.

Myra

Roger Zoul said:

Ground turkey has it's place too. Some pork is quite lean, too.

Very true. But at the Asian market, the ground pork was nice and
fatty. I can simply grind in some chicken fat - or even call ahead to
Whole Foods, and the butcher there will gladly grind some in for me
(yeah, the store's pricey, but the service is great).

Quoted message said:

::: What's wrong with caffeine, i.e., coffee? huh!
::
:: Well, for one thing, it raises BG levels.

I don't think that ever been a problem for me. In fact, I thought I read
the other day of the opposite!

Unfortunately, not true for me, and it still causes problems being a
stimulant. Also, coffee and tea are acidic, and my PH levels were
very low, which apparently can cause problems with diabetes. My MD
agreed with that. I just want my chicory, dammit! Damn UPS for not
delivering it yesterday, like they were supposed to!

Chicory, it seems, is alkaline and helps with bile production, which
I'm low on as I no longer have a gallbladder.

Quoted message said:

Well, lifting and walking tend to have a positive effect like that.

Yes, they do. And I love his gym, which is very small and cozy and no
one wears spandex or lycra.

Quoted message said:

Bring it on! MyraGriddle! 🙂 What's in that puppy (besides the obvious)?

I can't get too specific, as the recipe's going in the book (and
possibly used elsewhere), but let's just say it involves low-carb
pancakes flavored with a load of maple extract or flavor, with a piece
of cooked breakfast sausage (I make my own, but you don't have to)
sandwiched in. Very yummy.

Myra

Myra said:

Hueyduck said:

I'm curious: what does it look like?
Is it like coconut flakes,only very finely powdered?

It's not liked dried, grated coconut - it's a fine, dry powder. It's
made from what's leftover from the coconut oil process. So, it's very
high in fiber.

I had a biscuit with breakfast this morning - warm with a little
butter and a few drops of grape-flavored stevia drops. Fantastic!

Thanks for this info. From what I read, I might find some in "health" or
Bio supermarkets.

Huey