This vegan vegetable korma is made with fresh veggies and chickpeas, simmered in an Indian curry coconut sauce and topped with roasted cashews and fresh cilantro. Sometimes I don’t understand myself at all. This is one of those recipes which, once I made it, I was kicking myself because it was just too easy. Kicking myself (1) for not having…
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This recipe should come in handy this holiday season. Or, really anytime you want to make something totally decadent. Homemade sweetened condensed coconut milk! Traditional sweetened condensed milk is made by heating milk until most of the water is removed, then adding sugar, leaving you with a thick and sticky substance that tastes downright…
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I usually fall into one of two sweet potato camps, depending on the time of year. For Christmas and Thanksgiving, I want marshmallows. Lots and lots of marshmallows. As for the other 363 days, give them to me roasted with a pat of butter. But as much as I love the simplicity of an unadorned baked sweet potato, I forget that just a couple of…
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I’m typing as quietly as I can. I’m sitting in bed writing this and Elsa is sleeping right next to me. This post will therefore probably be pretty short. Don’t want to wake her up. Luise is out tonight so Elsa and I have played all evening. If you have been reading this blog for a while you probably know that we raise our daughter on a mainly…
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Learn how to make an easy Indian-style fish curry with coconut milk, one of my go-to fish recipes, especially when entertaining. As you guys know, I am from Kerala and not vegetarian so that would mean I love fish. The gorgeous river fish so easily available there lends itself well to a variety of fish dishes, mostly served with rice, but…
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This Coconut Curry Chicken recipe is beyond easy. You can literally start cooking before the prep work even starts. I don’t know why it took us this long to publish our coconut curry chicken recipe. It’s one of my absolute favorite meals. Curried chicken is a quick, crowd-pleasing one-pot dinner that’s great for a weeknight. Not only is it…
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I’ve been thinking about the concept of time lately. I suspect that it falls outside of my comprehension, like the infinite nature of the universe, and how the dishes manage to pile up in my sink when I’m not looking. Time comes and it goes, sure, but it never seems to run at a constant rate. I seem to live in denial that everything takes…
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Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk A fantastic and flavorful chicken curry that is a regular at our home. This favorite chicken curry recipe is usually prepared as a side with flavored rice like Tomato Pulao. Coconut milk and poppy seeds are essential in the preparation of the curry. The chicken simmers in a concoction of yogurt, coconut milk…
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A well-loved dessert all around the world, tapioca pudding is one “treat” that’s easily made Paleo, because when you take out the sugar and milk, it’s actually not unhealthy! Tapioca is a safe starch, and actually quite a good choice of carbohydrate: it’s mostly glucose (starch), without a lot of fructose (sugar). Nutritionally, it’s not much…
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This Indian specialty is so good, I can’t even begin to tell you how. It’s almost criminal . Also known as Murg Makhani , its name comes from the heavy use of savory butter of Ghee (clarified butter). The original recipe calls for yogurt, but we’ll substitute the yogurt with coconut milk, which will be just as good. This recipe is very easy…
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As I lamented on Saturday, I completely forgot to throw a bunch of shrimp on the grill during our party on the Fourth, so wound up stuck with approximately nine million tons of the stuff. I wound up using it to my advantage, though, and making a handful of really delicious shrimp dishes. This scrumptious and exceedingly fast/easy curry dish…
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I love me some coconut oil! DON’T NOBODY better say nothin’ bad about COCONUT OIL. ‘Cuz that’s when Bonita goes OFF!! *teehee* The YouTuber’s hair is RIDIC!! I mean, long as all get out and so healthy looking without a broken strand visible to the naked eye (whereas I have a ton from a rough, dry winter)! Now, I know her hair is not curly…
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I have been working on this almond and coconut bread recipe for a year now. In case you’re wondering, I did try using arrowroot in place of the psyllium and it didn’t work as a loaf. At all. First of all I had to double the amount (twice as much arrowroot as psyllium), and it still didn’t fully cook in the loaf pan. Second, the texture was…
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This delicious Coconut chicken recipe is going have your guest asking for more. INGREDIENTS : 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 1/2 onions, chopped 1 red bell pepper, chopped 1 green bell pepper, chopped 1 tablespoon chopped roasted garlic 1/2 (14 ounce) can coconut milk salt and pepper to taste 1 pinch crushed…
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It’s happened. I’ve become a morning person. Or at least the sort of babe that looks forward to the mornings. The soft light that fills our bedroom. The quiet before the world enlivens. The two of us making our way to the kitchen with soft throw blankets settled over our shoulders. Shuffling around in sock feet. Chatting and laughing and talking…
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