They look trimmed in the store but they are covered with a fiberous soft white material. I cut off as much as I could and discovered a hard nut. There was a soft spot that I pierced with an awl and drained the milk. After I cracked the nut with a hammer like a regular coconut the meat is soft and somewhat rubbery. Should this be dried in the oven to make it grateable (is that a word)?
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ISO: ISO Help with a fresh Thai Coconut
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This seems to be young coconut. I am seeing them at our farmers'
market in the Vietnamese/Asian stalls. Here is a site that describes it soemwhat. It looks like the soft meat is to be used as is.
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/youngcoconuts.html
market in the Vietnamese/Asian stalls. Here is a site that describes it soemwhat. It looks like the soft meat is to be used as is.
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/youngcoconuts.html
Michael, you can dry it but it is so much better fresh
It can be pounded or whirred in a blender with coconut milk and used in recipes, just eaten as is, or frozen for later use. I have never dried the meat to grate later and I am not certain it would work well but try it and see.
It can be pounded or whirred in a blender with coconut milk and used in recipes, just eaten as is, or frozen for later use. I have never dried the meat to grate later and I am not certain it would work well but try it and see.
Re the subject of coconuts.....when cruising through the islands off Guyana we stopped at the....
islands "Devil's Island" where Papillon was interred.
Quite the most fascinating islands, all three of them.
We decided to camp. There were about 5 other yachts we met up with along the way and the other yachties we were travelling and us all hung our hammocks (hedjies) we had bought in Brazil up in the palm trees at this lovely beach. We caught fish to BBQ and ate coconuts in different forms.
Here I had the first "Heart of palm" ever, fresh. WOW, what a difference to the canned stuff, I've tried since.
Also some of the other yachties took coconuts grown to a certain stage where inside they were all fluffy, they dipped these in batter and we had sort of "apple fritters".
I have never been able to find a coconut like that since...I wonder if this was a different type of palm, or if I was just not really fully paying attention.
(Lol! My DH spent a lot of his time making mosquito nets to cover all the hatches when we were there as he found he was truly affected by the bites...the others of us ...all 4...don't have the same problem at all, poor man)
The prison where Papillon spent so much time was right up the path behind the beach and the eerie feeling we had wandering around there was unlike any other I have experienced.
By the way the film showed this high cliff Papillon jumped off to escape...We could find no high cliff on this island, the highest cliff was on one of the other islands where only a lone monkey lived. He was apparently banished there many years before for bad behaviour and if people went to vist him or, I believe to catch him, he spent all the time throwing things at them (like rocks) that he never got to leave the island...myth or not we only ventured to the waters edge on this island and left in a hurry when we heard "monkey" noises. Didn't want to have bleeding wounds to us or children miles from anywhere and in very foreign tropical places!
islands "Devil's Island" where Papillon was interred.
Quite the most fascinating islands, all three of them.
We decided to camp. There were about 5 other yachts we met up with along the way and the other yachties we were travelling and us all hung our hammocks (hedjies) we had bought in Brazil up in the palm trees at this lovely beach. We caught fish to BBQ and ate coconuts in different forms.
Here I had the first "Heart of palm" ever, fresh. WOW, what a difference to the canned stuff, I've tried since.
Also some of the other yachties took coconuts grown to a certain stage where inside they were all fluffy, they dipped these in batter and we had sort of "apple fritters".
I have never been able to find a coconut like that since...I wonder if this was a different type of palm, or if I was just not really fully paying attention.
(Lol! My DH spent a lot of his time making mosquito nets to cover all the hatches when we were there as he found he was truly affected by the bites...the others of us ...all 4...don't have the same problem at all, poor man)
The prison where Papillon spent so much time was right up the path behind the beach and the eerie feeling we had wandering around there was unlike any other I have experienced.
By the way the film showed this high cliff Papillon jumped off to escape...We could find no high cliff on this island, the highest cliff was on one of the other islands where only a lone monkey lived. He was apparently banished there many years before for bad behaviour and if people went to vist him or, I believe to catch him, he spent all the time throwing things at them (like rocks) that he never got to leave the island...myth or not we only ventured to the waters edge on this island and left in a hurry when we heard "monkey" noises. Didn't want to have bleeding wounds to us or children miles from anywhere and in very foreign tropical places!