Coconut Bread

Sometimes when I'm visiting the home of a friend or family member, I'll take a sneaky peek at their cookbook collection and - if I'm feeling really sneaky - I'll snap photos of some of the recipes with my phone so I can make them later. What's the point of me buying a new cookbook if I can just creepily take pictures of yours when you're not looking?

So we went to visit my boyfriend's mom in Calgary recently... and long story short, I have a lot of pictures of cookbook pages on my phone now. My favourite book to look at when I'm at her house is Donna Hay's Seasons because like all of Donna Hay's other books, it's filled with pretty pictures of simple and interesting food. This recipe for coconut bread caught my eye right away.

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Salted Caramel Brownies

 

I don't make New Year's resolutions. Maybe I should, but I just can't be bothered... especially since January has got to be the worst time to summon the motivation to go for a run or cut back on carbs. January/February is the time of year when I feel like napping, eating warm things from the oven, and watching every season of Friday Night Lights.

It was that kind of a weekend about a year ago when we visited my boyfriend's mom in Calgary. We kind of just stayed in, ate good food, cuddled with her dog and watched SNL. It was so nice. She had made a pan of Ina Garten's salted caramel brownies and we nibbled on them all weekend (and for a while afterwards, since she packed them up and sent them with us).
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