The coconut lovers are surely going to enjoy these great coconut cupcake recipes. One of the easiest recipes for coconut cupcakes is as follows.

Sour Cream Coconut Cupcakes
This coconut cupcake recipe is very easy to make and tastes delicious. The ingredients that are needed include one cup sugar, one cup sour cream, one egg, two cups flour, half tsp soda, one tsp vanilla, half tsp salt, two tsp baking powder and half cup shredded coconut. Firstly, you need to beat egg, sour cream and sugar for one minute. Sift the flour with salt, soda and baking powder and add it to the beaten mixture. Add vanilla and beat again for about two minutes. Fold in the coconut into this mixture. Pour the mixture into paper wrappers of cupcakes. Bake these coconut cupcakes for about 20 to 25 minutes at 400 degrees.

Tasty Coconut Cupcakes
This is an extremely tasty recipe for coconut cup cakes. The ingredients required for these coconut cupcakes are 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour, 1 tsp of baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt, 12 tbsp of softened, unsalted butter, 1 cup sugar, 3 large lightly beaten eggs, 1/2 cup of unsweetened canned coconut milk, 1 cup flaked unsweetened coconut and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. You start off by preheating the oven at 350F. Take 16 medium sized muffin cups and grease them lightly. Then coat them with flour and take out the excess flour. Alternatively, these cups can be lined with cupcake liners as well. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder on a wax paper and keep it aside.

Beat butter with a beater at medium speed till it becomes lighter in colour. Then, add sugar steadily and beat the mixture again at medium speed to get a light texture and color. Add the lightly beaten eggs, one tablespoon at a time and beat till the mixture becomes shiny and smooth. Then add flour and coconut milk alternately and keep beating the mixture after every addition. Add the vanilla extract and stir in the coconut flakes. Fill the cup with the batter and bake for about 20 minutes. Let the pan cool for ten minutes and then remove the cupcakes from the pan.

Simple Coconut Cupcake
The ingredients required for this coconut cupcake are four eggs, 1 ¾ cup sugar, 1 cup floor, 1 cup oil, 1 cup thinly shredded coconut and 1 tsp lemon juice. Firstly, you have to beat the eggs and sugar together. Then, you add lemon juice, oil and flour to this mixture and beat vigorously. Afterwards, fold coconut in this mixture. Pour the mixture into the paper cups and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Speaking of recipes, here is one nice little chicken recipe I've stumbled upon some time ago, while searching on some beer brands. This recipe is a main course item that calls for chicken with beer. The aforementioned dish is a European-Austrian favorite. The recipe provides enough to serve 2 people. The ingredients list calls for chicken, beer or ale, onion, leeks, parsley, carrot, and a dash of salt and pepper. First you need to season the chicken with a pinch salt and pepper. Then place the chicken in a cassarole dish with a half cup of chopped onions, three cut up carrots, a teaspoon of parsley flakes and leek.

Ensure that the chicken is submerged in beer, as per the recipe's direction to pour the beer over the chicken. The chicken needs to be cooked for a minimum of 30 minutes on each side at boiling temperature. Serve the chicken from this recipe any way you like. Cheers. One of the most delicious salads is my chicken salad. I had a chance to go to a dinner party on the marriage of one of my friends. He was a stickler for detail. He had ensured that the best dishes are prepared. Even though it was quite expensive he proudly employed the most prestigious cater in the area.

He said that the catering company's specialty was a Kashmiri recipe called 'mutton roganjosh', along with chicken salad. Tasting the unique combination of ingredients made me ask for directions to make it myself. I took three helpings of the salad and in fact I ate it as one of the main dishes instead of just as a salad. The catering company had taken the tenderest chicken and arranged it artfully. I think the appeal of grill-chicken is mostly psychological. I can't detect any contrast between chicken I fix in the oven and the kind I grill.

Just cover it with barbecue sauce and roast it until it is slightly burned and you will duplicate what most people produce when they grill chicken. Soak it or rub it with a wet or dry marinade, then see if you can tell the difference once you bake it. You may think you are able to but the truth is you will not know unless you try, and the sad truth is only few try. They will simply keep on kidding themselves. The old saying, 'ignorance is bliss' seems to stand up. So go on grilling your chicken and I'll go on baking mine and we'll both be happy. And the same goes for seafood, steak, those fancy grilled vegetables that are still just vegetables, and anything else you want to grill.

So many times we only think of turkey, chicken and fish when we want to prepare low cost and nutritious meals, but if we face the truth, we still want the flavour that you only get with beef.

Many of us have limited ideas on how cook the beef, we mostly stick with the normal things, meat loaf, hamburgers, meat balls, tacos and chilli.

But hold on, have you ever thought of creating a salad with beef? There are a surprising number of delicious recipes available that you can make with beef.

Here are two that have been created recently that your whole family are sure to enjoy.

Spring Beef Salad

You will need:
1 pound of ground beef
1 head of leaf green lettuce
1 head of red leaf lettuce
1/4 pound of fresh spinach
1-3 green onions
1-2 carrots
1-2 stalks of celery
1 tablespoon of fish oil
1/2 teaspoon of ginger
1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon parsely
1 teaspoon tarragon
1 teaspoon of reserved green onion

Directions: In a pan, brown your ground beef, while you are browning the beef add in, fish oil, ginger, soy sauce, garlic powder, salt and pepper.

In a large bowl, rip up your lettuce leaves and spinach. Chop up carrots and celery to your size liking. Then chop up the green onions into small pieces reserving 1 teaspoon for your dressing.

In a small bowl, mix together rice wine vinegar, water, tarragon, parsely and reserved green onion, set in the fridge to chill for approximately 15 minutes.

When the ground beef is done, drain off any fat that may have come out of the beef, now put into the bowl with your salad greens. Mix together. Take the dressing you created and pour all over the top of your salad, toss some more.

Your salad is ready to serve. This is a great spring or summer salad.

Beef vegetable soup with barley

This is a nice hearty soup that is great to eat any time. You could even set this up to cook in your slow cooker for the day.

You will need:
1 pound of ground beef
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped yellow onion
1 cup peas
1 cup corn
1 cup lima beans
1 cup chopped potatoes
1 1/2 cup barley
2 cups beef stock
4-6 cups water
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper

Directions:
In a large pan, begin by browning your ground beef, sprinkle a small amount of salt and pepper while meat is cooking. When the meat is browning, add in the onion, let cook for a minute or two, this will allow some of the oils to sweat from the onion and provide additional flavor to the beef and the soup. Now toss in remaining vegetables, allow to good mixing constantly for about 10 minutes, this will help the softening process on the vegetables and also release additional flavors for your soup. Add in the stock, water and spices, cover with a lid let cook on medium heat for about an hour, checking occasionally to make sure it doesn't boil over. Then lower to simmer for about 30-40 minutes. Your soup is ready to serve.

If you prefer not to use ground beef for these recipes you can used chopped up beef of your liking. Just remember to to brown the meat before any of the other steps.

Don't forget, there are a wide variety of different cuts of beef - not to mention quality types of beef, like Aberdeen Angus - so if you are confused over which cuts of beef to use, ask your butcher, they are usually all to happy to help. You can find many yummy beef recipes by searching on the internet - there are plenty of free recipe collection sites on the net, most of them will have a collection of recipes for beef. If not, you will in all probability find them in the meat recipes category.

Enjoy!