Coconut water - incredibly rehydrating and has a zillion benefits. I do have to say, if you try it the first time you may not like it. Keep at it. It gets better and you'll be grateful that you did.
Coconut Oil - it has to be unrefined, organic, extra virgin. I currently use Nutiva (love it) and buy in the mega jar from vitacost.com for the best price. I recently learned of a brand of oil that is made using coconut water instead of regular filtered water (holy holy I must get some asap).
A Few Random Uses:
My favorite morning energizer is a tablespoon of oil in
I've thrown it into tea before
Use it for any sweet or dessert cooking, good in stir-frys too
Used it to cure Lu's thrush
Have given it to Mars for her skin issues
Use it on my face and body instead of lotion (love) on baby's skin too
Use it as a chapstick and the list goes on
Raw Coconut Shreds - they are like melt in your mouth shreds of candy goodness, throw this stuff into anything and everything for a little pizazz. Examples: peanut butter balls, granola bars, protein smoothies, roll a banana in some, mix with dates in the food processor and make a quick "Laura" bar
Coconut Milk - both the milk traditionally used in cooking and the beverage (made by So Delicious). My next adventure is to make my own.
Now for what started this post, Coconut Macaroons, made this recipe and loved them. If you don't have a dehydrator then I'm sure you can throw them in the oven to toast em up a bit. If you don't care about them being raw then cook at whatever temp until the outside seems to firm or brown up a bit.
I did modify the recipe, the original amount of honey made them way, way to sweet for me so I double the recipe and only used half the amount of honey. I also added carob chips to half the batch for a "chocolate" version - enjoy!
