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Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka: Vegan Comfort Food

September 14, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka

Dal with Kale-Coconut Tadka is delicious, simple and filling, comfort food that fits with any season. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. Follow my blog with Bloglovin People I am getting kinda old for general admission lines for concerts. I saw U2 (for the second time this summer) in… 

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Filed Under: Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, curry, dal, greens, Indian, Indian recipes, kale, lentils, lime, pantry cooking, split peas, Sri Lankan, vegan, vegetarian, yellow split peas Tagged With: chana dal, coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, curry, dal, greens, Indian, kale, lentils, lime, Sri Lankan, tadka, yellow split peas

Coconut Crusted Mahi Mahi with Masala Peas

June 11, 2016 By Laura 2 Comments

Mahi Mahi sautėed in a panko-coconut flake crust served with Masala Peas

Coconut Crusted Mahi Mahi with Masala Peas is a “clean out the pantry” Indian-inspired meal that hit it out of the ballpark–everyone loved this crispy, creamy, delicious dish! The mandate to use up everything in the freezer(s) continues, and the culprits that led to this meal were frozen tomatoes from last season, frozen curry leaves,… 

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Lime Coconut Bars with Macadamia Nuts: #CreativeCookieExchange

February 16, 2016 By Laura 13 Comments

Lime Coconut Bars with Macadamia Nuts and White Chocolate Chunks

Lime Coconut Bars with Macadamia Nuts and White Chocolate Chunks are the perfect fudgy-chewy treat to take you away to the tropics! This month Creative Cookie Exchange has you covered with loads of tropically inspired cookies! I want to wax poetic about these bars, but am lacking the energy. We are in Columbus, both for… 

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Lime Coconut Chicken Curry with Mangoes

February 1, 2016 By Laura 5 Comments

Lime Coconut Chicken Curry with Mangoes--and cauliflower for added healthiness!

Lime Coconut Chicken Curry with Mangoes is a healthy, fast dish that makes the most of seasonal citrus and mangoes, while brightening up a winter day. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. This past fall two interesting citrus cookbooks were released. Being the huge citrus freak that I am, I… 

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Filed Under: Caribbean dishes, cauliflower, chicken, Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, cookbooks, curry, lime, mango, reviews Tagged With: Caribbean, cauliflower, chicken, citrus, coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, curry, lime, mango, mangoes

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts: Review of A Modern Way to Eat

August 16, 2015 By Laura 8 Comments

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts: This unusual, healthy salad is surpirizingly delicious--refreshing, crunchy and rich with nutrients!

Cucumber Baby Spinach Salad with Coconut and Peanuts is a healthy, crunchy, delicious bowl of textures that can be served as a side salad or even as a light lunch, thanks to the nuts and coconut flakes. I received a copy of A Modern Way to Eat from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest… 

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Filed Under: Coconut (flaked), coconut milk, cookbooks, cucumbers, peanuts, reviews, Salad Dressing, salads, spinach, Spiralized, vegetarian Tagged With: cilantro, coconut, coconut flakes, coconut milk, cookbooks, cucumber, nuts, peanuts, salad, spinach, spiralizer, vegetarian

Coconut Oil Pound Cake: #BundtBakers

January 15, 2015 By Laura 38 Comments

Coconut Oil Pound Cake with Flaked Coconut Glaze

This Coconut Oil Pound Cake is perfumed with coconut, moist, and just a tad springier than traditional pound cake, and it is absolutely delicious. Keep reading for more on Bundt Bakers this month! Affiliate links have been used for items I am discussing. OK I have a question for the photography buffs and food bloggers,… 

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Tongass Forest Cookies

August 15, 2013 By Laura 10 Comments

Oatmeal Cookies with Cocoa Puffed Rice Cereal, Coconut Flakes and White Chocolate Chunks

One week ago I was mourning the end of summer, dreading my kids going back to school.  Everything felt tight and panicky, like I had not appreciated my kids enough and needed to spend every waking moment with them. Oh the difference a week can make.

Filed Under: chocolate, cookies, oats, whole grains Tagged With: cereal, cocoa, coconut, coconut flakes, cookies, oatmeal, oats, puffed rice, rice cereal, Valrhona pearls, white chocolate

Coconut and Dried Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

December 20, 2010 By Laura 12 Comments

Oatmeal raisin cookies have never done much for me. They are my mom’s favorite cookie, so I ate them plenty growing up, but I never lowed the raisins and the overall cookie I found blah. Enter Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich, my new favorite cookbook. I have not made one dud… 

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Congo Bars

November 7, 2010 By Laura 12 Comments

I have a dirty little secret. This year, very different from previous years, my mom has taken a while to ask for Christmas lists (normally she is an early shopper), so I confess I have taken advantage of some of the great sales going on now, specifically at The Good Cook. Where normally I stare… 

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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