Whipperberry

WhipperBerry • Your Home For Creative Inspiration

Blogfrog

Butternut Squash Coconut and Lentil Stew

1 · · 1 Comment

+ Wake-up your tastebuds with this butternut squash coconut and lentil stew +

butternut-squash-lentil-stew-#whipperberry

I’m a soup girl by nature and this hearty soup/stew is one of my favorites. It has all kinds of complex flavors and yet it’s super simple to make. I shared it with some friend the other night for a Coconut inspired dinner party and everyone loved it!

Time Saving Tip // You can make this soup ahead of time and they reheat and serve the day of your dinner party. Just hold off adding the spice oil and add that at the very last minute before you serve.

Butternut Squash Coconut Lentil Stew
 
Save Print
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
 
Tickle your taste buds with this super simple yet scrumptious stew.
Author:
Recipe type: soup/ stew
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • Stew
  • 1 cup yellow split pigeon peas (toor dal)
  • 2 18.8 oz cans of Campbell's Homestyle Butternut Squash Bisque
  • 1 cup Roma tomatoes, diced
  • ½ cup dried shredded coconut (unsweetened)
  • ½ teaspoon tumeric
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 4 cups of Silk Original Coconut Milk

  • Spice Oil
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 2 teaspoon black or brown mustard seeds
  • ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 garlic clove minced
  • 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 lime, juiced
  • ¼ cup flat leaf Italian parsley or cilantro
Instructions
  1. Rinse the yellow split pigeon peas in a couple of changes of water. Remove any stones or off color peas.
  2. In a large soup pot, add the pigeon peas, tomato, coconut, turmeric, cumin and Silk Coconut Milk. Bring to a low simmer, cover and let cook for 30 minutes.
  3. Remove the lid, add the Butternut Squash Bisque and simmer uncovered for an additional 30 minutes.
  4. In a small sauté pan, add the oil over medium high heat. Heat until the oil is almost smoking, add the mustard seeds and cover with a lid, they will pop.
  5. Once the popping has died down, add the red pepper flakes and cook for an additional 30 seconds.
  6. Add the garlic and salt and cook for another 30 seconds.
  7. Pour into soup pot and stir to combine.
  8. Finish the stew with honey, lime juice, parsley (or cilantro.)

Coconut Curry Meatballs with Rice

2 · · Leave a Comment

+ Coconut Curry Meatballs, a fresh new take on Curry +

coconut-curry-meatballs-#whipperberry

The other night I hosted a coconut inspired dinner party and these meatballs were the home run hit of the evening! Kick the idea of the traditional Italian meatball out of your mind. These meatballs have a whole new flavor profile and they are scrumptious. Pair them with the Coconut curry sauce and rice and you’re in business!

Time Saving Tip // If you are serving this for a dinner party, you can make the meatballs and the sauce in advance and then combine and reheat right before you serve. Perfect for a dinner party!

Meatball Curry Recipe
 
Save Print
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
 
These scrumptious meatballs with the heat from the pepper and the bite of the ginger will be the home run hit of the night!
Author:
Recipe type: Main Dish or Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 5-6
Ingredients
  • Meatballs
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1 green serrano chile, minced
  • 1 tablespoon ginger, minced
  • 2 tablespoons italian flat leaf parsley or cilantro, minced
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 2 slices of bread
  • 1 cup Silk Original Coconut Milk

  • Curry
  • 3 tablespoons coconut oil
  • ½ teaspoon brown or black mustard seeds
  • 4 shallots thinly sliced
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 inch piece of ginger, minced
  • 2 teaspoons coriander
  • 2 teaspoons cumin
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 2 medium plum tomatoes, finely diced
  • 1 (14 oz.) can of full fat coconut milk
  • ½ cups of Silk Original Coconut Milk
  • salt to taste

  • Garnish
  • 1 tablespoons of Italian flat leaf parsley or cilantro
  • lime wedges
Instructions
  1. Meatballs
  2. In a small bowl, place your bread and coconut milk and let soak.
  3. In a large bowl, place your ground beaf, chile, ginger, and parsley (or cilantro), egg and salt. Squeeze out excess coconut milk out of your bread and break into small pieces and add the the large mixing bowl. Combine the mixture, being careful not to over mix.
  4. Using a 1 ounce scoop, make your meatballs (roughly 16) and place on top of a wire rack that has been sprayed with cooking spray, over a baking sheet.
  5. Place in a 400˚ oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and add to the curry sauce to finish cooking.

  7. Curry
  8. In a large skillet over medium high heat, add the coconut oil and heat until nearly smoking. Add the mustard seeds, cover the pan with a lid because the seeds will pop. Once the popping has died down, add the shallots, garlic and ginger and cook until golden brown 1-2 minutes. Add the coriander, cumin and cayenne pepper, stir cook for 30 seconds, then add the tomatoes. Cook for about 5 minutes until the tomatoes are soft.
  9. Add the full fat coconut milk, the silk coconut milk, ½ teaspoon salt and bring to a simmer. Add the meatballs and simmer for and additional 15-20.
  10. Finish with parsley (or cilantro) and lime juice and serve over a bead of rice.

Coconut Curry Shrimp Recipe

0 · · Leave a Comment

+ Coconut Curry Shrimp Recipe +

coconut-curry-shrimp-#whipperberry

Looking for a fun way to jazz up your shrimp? I hosted a coconut dinner party the other night and these Coconut Curry Shrimp were tasty little bites! Not your traditional coconut shrimp which usually has a tropical flair, this recipe takes it’s inspiration from India and there is no deep frying involved.

Time Saving Tip // You can make up your sauce before hand to save time and then reheat and cook the shrimp right before you serve to your guest.

Coconut Curry Shrimp Recipe
 
Save Print
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
 
These quick and tasty little bites are a perfect appetizer that your guest will love!
Author:
Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 1 pound of large shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 1½ cups of Silk Original Coconut Milk
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 tablespoon minced ginger
  • 2 whole cloves of garlic (leave as a whole clove but smash)
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
  • 1 cup coconut powder
  • fresh lime wedges for serving
Instructions
  1. In a medium sauté pan, mix together the coconut milk, curry powder, ginger and garlic. Slowly bring to a boil over medium low heat. Simmer for 7-10 minutes until the sauce starts to thicken. Add salt, pepper and lime juice.
  2. (At this point, you can refrigerate your sauce and save until right before you want to serve your shrimp before your event.)
  3. Once your sauce is simmering, add your cleaned shrimp, toss around in the sauce and cook until the shrimp have turned pink and are opaque in color. Do not over cook. This will take about 4-5 minutes depending on the size of your shrimp.
  4. Place your coconut powder in a bowl. Toss your cooked shrimp in the coconut to coat. Serve with a lime wedge and enjoy!

Family Selfies… Keeping it Real Folks

0 · ·

This post brought to you by Clorox // Did you know that National Parents Day is coming up? I for one, would like to nominate myself for the National Parent award. My house is spotless 100% of the time, not a pillow out of place. My children behave like angels at home and in public. They were all potty trained within their first year and never have they ever had any accidents from that point forward. Never have we ever had spilled milk at the dinner table or a dryer lint explosion in laundry room… ok, well the last one did happen… yesterday.  So, I may have exaggerated a bit… Let's be honest with ourselves. Life is messy sometimes… Life is silly and together it can be messy fun.

Case in point… my son.

This photo pretty much sums up all of my efforts at potty training the boy. He is far more interested in wearing the toilet seat, than sitting on it an using it as it is intended. Every ounce of me is cringing at all the possible germs that are jumping on board his face at that moment, but rather than jumping up and sterilizing the boy, I took two seconds to document the real story. He'll thank me some day for sure.

I could have a thousand perfect photos of Gage with him looking like a perfect gentleman like this…

Which is nice, or I can tell the real story about when he played Mister Distructo during nap time and emptied out all of the diapers into his bed…

… Instead of taking a nap. Don't even get me started on when he decided to play finger paints, in his bed, with a not so desirable paint medium from inside his diaper. I have to admit, I didn't snap a photo of that one. I had a hard time seeing the silver lining on that fun episode at the time. 

He also was so kind to unroll all of the toilet paper for me when I was sick, in bed…

What a kind and thoughtful boy he is.  And then there are those days when it's just to hard being three…

The poor boy, it's hard having three big sisters and not being able to get your way all, or any of the time really.

Then there are those precious moments that we never want to forget. Those moments that aren't scripted that quietly tap us on the shoulder, sometime we miss them. Those are the special moments I want to remember forever…

I am so grateful for camera phones and fabulous apps like Instagram that make documenting these moments so easy. I regret to say, I don't have very many of these types of photos of my girls at that age, because I NEVER had a camera in hand when the messy fun was happening. I'm making up for it now… I try and look through the haze a frustrating parent moments to find the silly, the messy and the downright embarrassing at times…

Yea, YOU try shopping with this crew!!

It may not be pretty, or perfect but I'm still down right proud of my family and proud to be a parent. 

Tell me about one of your favorite real family moments for a chance to win $500 from Clorox! This National Parents Day, July 28th, Clorox is celebrating real family moments by asking parents to share their #RealFamilySelfies on Instagram. July 24th through July 31st, share your photo by simply uploading it to Instagram with “#RealFamilySelfies” and you could win $500 Visa gift card.

This National Parents Day Clorox is celebrating  family moments – you know, those big or small, heart-warming and funny moments that today’s families all encounter – by asking parents to snap a pic and share their #RealFamilySelfies, the moments parents want to remember forever. Selfies capture those spur of the moment feelings and happenings that “official” family portraits may not exactly capture. 

This post is brought to you by The Clorox Company. I have partnered with them to spread the word about Clorox's #RealFamilySelfies program. For more information and to view the official rules visit this site. All opinions and stories are my own.

{C}

This post is brought to you by The Clorox Company.  I have partnered with them to spread the word about Clorox's #RealFamilySelfies program.  For more information and to view the official rules visit www.statigr.am/contest/ppgx/celebrate-national-parents-day-with-clorox-by-sharing-realfamilyselfies.  All opinions and stories are my own.