Curried Coconut Fish Chowder

Onions sauteed in Coconut Oil
Celery
Carrots
Potatoes, diced

Curry powder
Ginger, fresh grated
Garlic
Salt

Chicken broth
Coconut milk-not low fat
Fish cut into cubes and added at the end of cooking.

This chowder has lots of superfood ingredients. Coconut Oil, Turmeric (in the curry), Garlic, Chicken broth, and Coconut milk. All in one dish!

I served it with croutons made from sourdough "brick" bread tossed with butter and salt and then toasted. I save my bread flops to use for croutons or croistini. They really taste very good and the texture is no drawback.

Blueberry Banana Smoothies

This smoothie recipe is adaptable to whatever you have or want to include, such as supplements but not Cod Liver Oil obviously. For 1 Q. smoothies use approximately:

In blender pour 2 cups kefir or yogurt

2 egg yolks from pastured eggs

1/4 cup heavy raw cream or more

1/4 t. unrefined sea salt

2 T. coconut oil-can be hard or liquid

Banana-can be frozen in chunks

Blueberries that are frozen-maybe 1 1/2 C.

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Blend until smooth. If it's warm weather, add a couple of ice cubes to thicken the mixture and blend them well. You can put this in the refrigerator if you are not quite ready to drink it, but it's creamiest when just blended.

Update: I've recently learned that this cold mixture of dairy and bananas is especially hard to digest, so I save this for a treat rather than a daily ritual.

Coconut Oil Bars-How to eat coconut Oil

I prefer coconut bars over melting coconut oil in tea.

Gently melt:
1 C. Butter-raw spring butter is the best
2 C. Coconut oil-unrefined, I like Green Pastures

Add:
3 C. Coconut, dried and shredded
1 C. Nuts, chopped
1/2 C. Prunes, cut up
1/2 C. Apricots cut up
1/4 C. Peanut Butter
2 T. Really Raw Honey
1/4 t. Real salt

Add anything else you'd like to eat on a daily basis like sour cherries or a lot more nuts. The coconut oil firms everything well. You can add Stevia if you want it sweeter, or more honey. I try to keep it on the lower end of the carbohydrates scale. The PB really adds a nice flavor and chocolate makes it incredibly good.

Line a baking pan with parchment paper and pour in this mixture. Smooth with a spatula and refrigerate until firm. Pop out of pan and cut into small squares to eat 20 minutes before each meal. Store in the refrigerater. These promote weight loss naturally. If you wish you had added something else, you can easily melt the whole batch and add things.

See Eat Fat Lose Fat by Mary Enig for details about the nutritional value of coconut oil.

Update: I found that I can add Kelp (chopped in the blender-for iodine) and tart cherries (for the anti-oxident properties) and even chocolate and keep the excellent flavor.