Coconuts

Guess what I did last night?

Bought a coconut....     And........

Poked an ice pick into two of the soft indented spots on the top, dumped the water into a measuring cup and  then between my metal meat tenderizer and a big knife I wacked around on it until it broke into a few big pieces. Then the hardest part was getting the coconut out of the shell, not hard but a little time consuming. Next I peeled off the little paper skin with a knife but a peeler also works great. Toss the coconut pieces into the blender with about 3- 3 1/2 cups of water including the coconut water. (Some say if it is bitter do not use it, Mine tasted fine) Then blend for several minutes and strain through strainer lined with cheesecloth. Then the coconut pulp I spread out on a cookie sheet and baked in a low oven until dry like an hour or so. I let it sit in the warm oven overnight then this morning I blended that dry coconut into coconut flour in my blender!

Yay, coconut flour!

Then with my coconut milk I made this delicious coffee creamer:

primal-coconut-coffee-creamer/

More things I did with the milk is after the coconut milk was in the refrigerator it had seperated so I took of that coconut cream and whipped it with a few drops of stevia and vanilla!

Like this:

Coconut-Whipped-Cream

And I made a green smoothie with nopal cactus, celery, parsley, mango, apple, spinach, and
COCONUT MILK......

We had porridge for breakfast and on mine I put xylitol and the last of the coconut milk

MMmmm

Does that inspire anyone to attack a coconut??

It also works with shredded unsweetened coconut like this but that would be too easy for me!!

Here are a couple links:

how-to-make-your-own-coconut-milk

coconut-milk-from-shredded-coconut-video

All that and the coconut only cost 13 pesos or $1