Category: coconut

Tom Ka Gai: Thai Chicken and Coconut Soup

05 June 2012

My first taste of Tom Ka Gai changed my world.  It happened when I was 15, visiting New York for the first time ever and already in love with the City.  That bite of spicy coconut chicken broth-laced with the sour lime juice and lemongrass sealed my fate as a future New Yorker.  The soup […]

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Vanilla and Chocolate Coconut Almond Macaroons

05 April 2012

If you live in New York long enough, you will most likely eventually get the honor of being invited to attend a seder for Jewish Passover.  Because the holiday requires that nothing is cooked with leavening, you will also almost always be offered a very traditional and very delicious dessert: coconut macaroons. People tend to […]

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Hairy Eyeballs (a.k.a. Vegan Chocolate Brownies Bites

30 October 2009

These vegan brownie bites are a clear example of how the way in which you describe a food affecting the way a food is received. Some of you maybe thinking, “Vegan brownies?” Yick. Go further: Raw brownies? How does that sound? Maybe yum, maybe not so much. If you tell your kids that these are […]

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