When it comes to cooking with coconut, it’s difficult to persuade cooks not to use the pre-shredded, flaked, and sweetened kind in the plastic bags. And while I’m by no means saying there isn’t a time ...

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place coconut on a rimmed baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, or until the hard outer shell begins to crack. Remove coconut and set aside until cool enough to handle.

COCONUT07_121_cl.JPG Story on coconut. Nilofer Ichaporia showing how to crack and grate fresh coconut. Event on 1/24/07 in San Francisco. photo by Craig Lee / The Chronicle Ran on: 04-11-2007 Kerala ...

"Use your bare hands for all of this," the actor quipped, as he and his daughter showed off the technique. "Or the Easter bunny’s buck teeth" Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gets his Easter sweets straight ...

Q. My kids are clamoring for a fresh coconut. They've seen them in the produce aisle. How exactly do I open one of them? Is the liquid inside coconut milk? I am thinking of using it for a curry and ...

Fresh coconut is a completely different, more delicious animal than the pre-shredded stuff you buy in a bag. Getting to the tasty flesh inside a whole coconut can feel a little bit like breaking into ...

I”m staring at a really cute picture of my granddaughter and I smile. I shuffle through other pictures on my computer and smile again at the coconut-covered bunny cake I made for Easter. And I wonder ...