Tag: macadamia nuts

• International Peace Day and National Pecan Cookie Day

  

  Being that today is both International Peace Day and National Pecan Cookie Day, this was pretty much an inevitability that I repost, even though I made these back in July! Actually, peace was the farthest thing from my mind yesterday, what with all the ongoing news of horrible events and injustices in our country and […]

  Dave G

  September 21, 2016

  baked goods, baking, bars, christmas, christmas cookies, cookies, dessert, food blogging, snack

  coco lopez, coconut, coconut cream, coconut extract, coconut oil, cream of coconut, international peace day, macadamia nuts, national pecan cookie day, pecan cookies, pecans, rum, white chocolate chips

• peace cookies

  

  Sorry for being withdrawn and uninspired, visitors and fellow food bloggers. Life felt overwhelming these last few weeks. Not all of it bad. The world and US national news definitely felt overwhelming, and still feels overwhelming, but my personal life has been relatively good. Ben and I have been adjusting to the new permanent resident […]

  Dave G

  July 9, 2016

  baked goods, baking, bars, christmas, christmas cookies, cookies, dessert, food blogging, snack

  coco lopez, coconut, coconut cream, coconut extract, coconut oil, cream of coconut, macadamia nuts, pecans, rum, white chocolate chips

• achiote brownies

  

  I grew up in the island of Guam, which is a territory of the United States. My parents are Filipino, but decided to become US citizens and raise their children on Guam; that way we could still be close enough to the Philippines to visit our extended family once in a while (It’s a 3-hour […]

  Dave G

  March 7, 2015

  brownies, chocolate, espresso powder, Guam, snack

  achiote, achiote seeds, annatto, brownies, chamorro, Chamorro food, chamorro month, Guam, macadamia nuts

• coconut panna cotta with macadamia caramel sauce

  

  I so wanted to “put the lime in the coconut” for this recipe, and I actually did put some lime earlier in the caramel sauce on a recipe test run, but it turned out to overpower the subtle delicate flavor of the coconut. I still may tinker with this recipe, maybe even remake it into […]

  Dave G

  May 29, 2014

  baked goods, baking, dessert, filipino food, Guam, Hawaiian, island food, panna cotta

  caramel sauce, coco lopez, coconut cream, coconut milk, coconut panna cotta, dariole, gelatin, macadamia nuts, panna cotta, toasted flaked coconut