Each year when I go home to Mississippi for Easter, I look forward to eating coconut cake. While ham, lamb, potato salad, and other typical springtime dishes are on the rotating list of foods my family enjoys at Easter, coconut cake is a constant.
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While testing several recipes for an upcoming issue, we had a glut of extra egg whites. Normally, I'd contemplate for days or even weeks what to make with them. But with the surge of warm weather we had over a recent weekend in New York City, I actually felt like eating angel food cake. I knew the exact recipe I wanted to use, too.
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Never having opened young coconuts, I referred to an online step-by-step pictorial. When the cleaver lodged in the middle, I picked up the whole outfit and pried it open over a bowl to catch all the liquid inside. Then I scooped out the coconut with a spoon, as if it were Jell-O. The meat was that soft.
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