Food & Cooking

Few foods have seen the spotlight in recent years as much as the coconut. Since lingering at the bottom of the fashionable fruit chart, the brown, hairy, and difficult-to-crack contender has risen to the top, making up for what it lacks in looks by packing a nutritional punch. Its liquid form has even been referred to as an “uniquely curative elixir”―indeed, the humble coconut is certainly having its moment.

Once confined to the filling of a Mounds bar, coconut now comes in an array of forms. Part of The Goodness Of… series, this book is arranged by texture and variety, with chapters on Milk & Water, Oil, Flour, and Dried. Packed with an amazing range of recipes from savory dishes such as coconut-crusted Spicy Chicken or Grilled Vegetables with coconut chips to sweet things such as coconut flour pancakes and Coconut & Cherry Bircher Museli, Emily will have you going nuts over nature’s finest and most versatile ingredient. The unassuming coconut is now taking its rightful place as the darling of the “superfoods”.

In every country you’ll find people eating ice cream on street corners, in markets, and in fancy restaurants. But the number of people who make it at home is much smaller. The reason? Making this sweet treat yourself is kind of a pain. Ice cream machines can be expensive, bulky and hard to store, or cheap and inefficient. But what if you could make your own ice cream at home without all of the fuss, for a fraction of the cost of buying it, and without any special equipment? No-Churn Ice Cream is a mouthwatering collection of shortcuts and classic culinary techniques that help you achieve delicious, artisanal results.

All you need to make your quick and easy no-churn ice cream are the following simple tools:

– A freezer
– A whisk or electric mixer
– A can opener
– A bowl and a freezeable container, such as a loaf pan
– A sweet tooth!

Inside you’ll find recipes for all the basic flavors, plus more complex and exciting flavors such as Pineapple-Peppercorn and Sweet Potato Marshmallow Swirl. Treat yourself with a decadent Stracciatella gelato or Bananas Foster sorbet, or cool off with some Lavender-Almond sherbet. Your flavor variations are limited only by your imagination.