Sunday, August 25, 2019

What am I going to do with all these coconuts?

Hi there, my precious Ladies!  How are you feeling today?  Nice and cool, I hope.  What with all the hubbub and activity, let's keep our emotions under control.  It's a nice cool day over here.  I like cool weather, so I'm in a good mood right now.  My parents were hankering for young coconut juice.  Young coconut juice is medicinal, they say.  So I had to take that big heavy saw on a long stick, and harvest some young coconuts.  These coconuts were a bit older, so they didn't produce that much juice.  It usually takes 3 coconuts to fill up my Mom's jug, but today it took 6.  That's because the juice turns into meat as the coconut matures, so that means I had 6 coconuts worth of meat!  What am I going to do with all these coconuts?  I'm sure you are familiar with mature coconuts, the meat is too hard to bite into so people usually scrape and squeeze it for milk.  These coconuts are not at that stage yet, one can still bite into them and eat them raw, with the texture of carrots.  I had over a kilo  of meat, I can't keep it all in my freezer!  It's full of chicken!  Then it occurred to me, why not treat it like a staple, like rice or bread?  Except that young coconut doesn't need to be cooked.  So I diced them all up into 1 or 2 bit Lego sized chunks, stuffed most of it into my freezer, then fried some up with some onion and a diced up burger.  With just salt it wasn't flavorful enough, so I added a spoon of my generic curry paste and that turned out to be the perfect flavor.  So I ate that all up, and now I'm waiting for my stomach to perhaps have a bad reaction to the food.  It shouldn't inshaAllah.  The coconut could be smaller in size though and use some softening up, so tomorrow I'll maybe blend the stuff into hummus then steam it like rice, and we'll see what happens.

How do you like my Mom dress?  Big pockets for carrying kittens!