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    Chicken Meatballs with Coconut Curry

    I’ve been watching cookies get photographed at work all week. This, inevitably meant that I ate cookies all week. A lot of cookies. So when Matt mentioned curry as a dinner option this week, it had never sounded better. We make our curry with coconut milk which gives it a silky, smooth texture but it’s [...]

    Coconut Bread

    It’s that time of year again. Time to bundle up, fill the ovens with things that smell delicious, and enjoy the holidays. Since I went away to school, I’ve started a new tradition in my house on Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. I like to bake a deliciously decadent sweet bread. This tradition started with my attempted [...]

    Coconut Rice Pudding

    I’ve been working late on some birthday cakes (soon to be seen in an upcoming post) and after I’m done, I’m wiped out. Tonight my roommate and I went to a local diner for dinner. As we got ready to pay the bill, she said “I think I’ll get some rice pudding to take home [...]

    Coconut Cream Pie Cake

    I love an excuse to bake, but I rarely do it unless it’s for other people. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, and the few tastes I get of batters and icings and such along the way is more than enough. But if I bake something, it tends to get [...]

    Creamy Coconut Stir Fry

    div>Matt and I rarely argue about food. We rarely argue at all, but he certainly (and most faithfully) eats whatever I plan to make. But yesterday he was in the mood for steak, and I was craving a Thai-inspired dish. So we did something we don’t normally do, we entered the store [...]