coconut recipes

What do you do with a coconut?  If you ask my wife she would tell you to throw it out.  But that would make a very short post.  Instead, I have a couple of coconut recipes for you.

These are not time tested, professionally reviewed coconut recipes.  I just made them up.  But I’m entitled to my opinion and so are you so take some notes.  First a bit of background.  I always liked shredded coconut on the various things my mom used to put it on, which wasn’t often.  Occasionally, between those coconut recipes she made, I would find the bag of shredded coconut and help myself to a handful of it.  I grew up liking it.  My wife Lisa did not.  I got away with it last week because it was a homeschooling lesson.  The kids got to see me break open a coconut with a hammer.  Then I offered them a piece to eat and they ran away.  Sometimes the kids are like me and sometimes they are like Lisa.

Anyway I looked up some health benefits of coconuts on google and Lisa said I could eat it.  (How nice of her.)  The coconut was ok but I was thinking coconut milk might be nice.  The coconut didn’t come with much milk so I bought a can of it.  To my surprise it was a bit chunky and the flavor was a bit strong.  Now what do I do?

I don’t want to drink it straight (any more) so I came up some coconut recipes that are edible.  I love hot chocolate.  I usually make it a bit too hot and add some milk to make it creamier and bring it down to the right temperature.  I just added some cold coconut milk instead for a great flavored treat.  I also added a little coconut milk to a basic vanilla shake.  I added some coconut milk and a banana.  Yummy.

I hope you like my coconut recipes.  I suppose you can use coconut milk in cooking too but I haven’t ventured out that direction since I’m the only one in my family that would eat it.