“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw I’m fairly certain I learned to cook before I learned to ride a bike. I recall being as young as five when I’d push an old wooden dining chair up to the stove where my mother was simmering and sautéing away. I’d […]
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Candied Peanut Sesame Granola + Brown Sugar Bourbon Coconut Ice Cream
That’s quite a title. Today it’s two recipes for the price of one! Coconut everything. That pretty much sums up this post. Coconut milk. Coconut Cream. Coconut Blossom Granulated Nectar. Candied Coconut Peanuts. All of the coconut! What started out as a simple granola recipe with ingredients I had on hand, quickly spiraled into two […]
Coconut Carrot Ginger Soup
Can you hear that? Listen carefully. I’m sure if you hold your ear close enough to your phone or computer screen you will actually be able to hear me rejoicing. It’s raining you guys! For the second day in a row in the barren landscape that is Southern California. Never was there ever such a […]
Chicken Thighs in Ghost Pepper Vodka and Coconut Milk
I was perusing through various chicken thigh recipes on Pintrest the other day. I am a very visual person so I like to see the potential outcome of a recipe before I’ll even consider attempting it. Even when I make up my own recipes as I go, as I am often prone to do, I […]
Coconut Milk Shrimp Tacos
Shrimp in coconut milk. Growing up this was one of the few seafood dishes I would dare eat—and only if I was in the right mood. You can read more about my early struggles with seafood here in my fish tacos post. For me it wasn’t the flavor of shrimp that was an issue, rather […]
Coconut Curry Ramen with Turmeric Grilled Shrimp
You know, for someone who repeatedly proclaims that ramen is her spirit animal; this blog is shockingly (and sadly) lacking in ramen recipes. I know. It’s bad. I constantly post pictures of the ramen I make on Instagram yet never bother to jot down a recipe, never share the process here. I’ve prepared many variations over […]
