ode to coconut oil

A natural, plant-based saturated fat that chefs, athletes, and beautiful people alike have found to be a good thing.

Coconut oil makes for a tender, moist cake.

It cooks up a healthy Southeast Asian stir fry.

It supplies extra energy before a race.

As a treatment it makes your skin and hair soft & smooth.

Sometime last year my friend {lg} introduced me to a healthy tasty slab of coconut oil on toast.

But it wasn't until recently that I ventured out and purchased my first jar.

Unfortunately there was a difference in the oil that I had found at Fred Meyer's.

The difference...

• Her coconut oil actually had a coconut smell.
• The stuff I bought was pretty much scent/tasteless.

However they both had that wonderful melt-in-your-mouth texture.

With a little research today I found:

• Virgin Coconut Oil has the scent & taste I'm looking for;
• Refined Organic Coconut Oil works well for cooking --- (& because of its neutral flavor, especially for baking.)

In my defense, the grocery store that I went to only had that latter, so it's what I got. But next time I'm definitely going to Whole Paycheck, er I mean, Whole Foods (or even better, I'll go together with a friend on a bulk quantity) to get that tasty virgin coconut oil.

Either way there's just something so healthy feeling about it.

Mmm for coconut oil !