This is NOT your usual plain green bean casserole. This is a recipe that started with my great-aunt and has been passed around our family for years. People tasting it for the first time ALWAYS want the recipe!
Coconut milk can be found in the Asian section of your grocery store. Don't confuse coconut milk with cream of coconut, which is a thick sweet liquid often used in making drinks.
This is the recipe passed on to me from my Aunt Doris (who in turn had it passed on to her). Seafood is local favorite on the East End of LI due to its fishing community. Fresh seafood is best.
Fresh pineapple chunks, now widely available in supermarkets, speed the prep for this relish. Serve with coconut rice (substitute light coconut milk for some of the water to cook it). Round out menu with a romaine lettuce salad tossed with lime dressing.
This is a pure white wedding cake frosting. You can double the recipe if you have a sturdy mixer. Add milk according to purpose; you need less if you are making flowers or borders than if you are just covering a cake. Remove what you need for decorating before you thin the rest down for frosting.
This delicious, Indian-inspired dish is made by quickly cooking chicken and shallots with curry paste, then bathing everything with a coconut milk-mango puree!
Tilapia is marinated in lime juice and spices before being made into a coconut milk-based stew with onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes in this Brazilian recipe.
