Coconut!

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I love coconut! thats all i have to say for now 555555

[yy]

???? What is this thread about????

[Susana]

I never liked coconut. There was something about the texture of the packaged coconut we have here that I just did not like.

Then I went to Thailand to live and started teacher training at AUA. My father in law picked me up one day and when I got in the car he handed me this funny looking chopped off looking thing with a straw stuck in it! "?????", I thought.

One sip and I was hooked. My favorite became a drink I only ever had in Samseng Lane during numerous shopping expeditions. It had slivers of fresh coconut in slushy coconut juice. Yum . . .

Fast forward many, many, many years. Driving toward the US border at Geuerro, Mexico, I saw a table set up beside the road with some white hacked off looking objects on display. There were smaller cubes in plastic cups with a toothpick sticking out of the top. "STOP THE CAR! They're selling coconut" I bought a cup, which incidentally came with a plastic baggie of salt & chile, and started munching on a cube.

Not coconut after all, but jicama. Another accidental love was born.

[trangam]

Coconut is a sacred plant. That you like it X ...means you have been accidentally blessed

Its a must tree in every house where I live, and before start of anything important...break the coconut.

Everything about coconut tree is useful, till its time to pass away!

[yy]

Even when it passes away, the dry parts of the coconut tree are very useful for Southeast Asian households (but increasingly less so with modernization). There is a broom called the sapu lili, made with the dried leaf stalks of coconut trees, the coconut's dried fibrous husk is used as a natural replacement for soil, and the whole dried coconut can be used as a flowering pot. I assume that they also used to make use of dried coconut stems for building materials?

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

Bit like a pig then, the only thing you can't use is the squeak.

David

[yy]

Even when it passes away, the dry parts of the coconut tree are very useful for Southeast Asian households (but increasingly less so with modernization). There is a broom called the sapu lili, made with the dried leaf stalks of coconut trees, the coconut's dried fibrous husk is used as a natural replacement for soil, and the whole dried coconut can be used as a flowering pot. I assume that they also used to make use of dried coconut stems for building materials?

Sorry, spelling error - it should be "sapu lidi" . My Malay is "koyak" (Malay for "bad").

[khonrai]

HI

I love stcky rice and mango made with fresh coconut.

I kept asking my wife to make me some as we had lots of coconut trees around near her land
but she never did and I couldn't figure out why until one day we were sitting on the front and
man with a monkey on the back of his scooter went by. she said quick flag him down

the monkey was trained to climb up the trees and drop the coconuts down.
that is what she was waiting for some one to get the coconuts.

So that night we had lots of fresh coconuts.
it was a sight to see the monkey work
the monkey would touch a coconut and the trainer would signal the monkey to pick that coconut or not to.
If the signal was given the monkey would grab the coconut and spin it until it dropped off.

[yy]

Sorry, slightly off topic. I'm wondering if the Thai sticky rice will work with thickened cream (those for whipping and pouring) as a replacement for the coconut milk? Cos I happen to have the cream and wondering what to do with it.

[khonrai]

HI

I am not a cook but I do know that my wife use's the coconut meat also in the dessert maybe as a thickener

it was fun useing the traditional shreading stool on the fresh coconuts here is a link.

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/features/cocshred.html

I am sure almost every house hold in Thailand has one.