OK let's talk nuts, coconuts first!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

How many of you here at SP love coconut?

What are some uses you have for it for, and have you ever heard of coconut flour?

A friend of mine at work spoke of coconut rice which I presume is rice cooked in coconut milk

Need your input on this one....................

[chubbyalaskagriz]

LOVE me some coconut, Cathy!

My Coconut Favs are: Almond Joy candy bars, Coconut-Creme Pie, Coconut Layer-Cake, the Canadian Nanaimo Bar (which is kinda like a layered Almond Joy/Fudge Bar-Cookie), deep-fried coconut shrimp and chicken strips... YUM! And I very rarely drink but if I ever do have a sip of something other than a Bud-Light I enjoy Malibou Rum w/ OJ over ice.

I worked in Dutch Harbor, AK as the sous chef at an inn there for about a year. The company that owned the inn also owned fishing vessels and huge land seafood processing plants and at certain times of the year they had hundreds of employees. We were housed in beautiful, first-class dormitory-style buildings with a fantastic galley open 'round the clock for us to eat in. There were many Asians and Polynesians on the galley's kitchen staff (many of the seafood processors were also Asian and Polynesian) and often in the dessert cooler among the jell-o's they had what looked like plated squares of WHITE jell-o, right along side the lime, cherry and lemon jell-o's. It tasted like COCONUT, but no one could ever tell me what it was, or how it was made! It was delicious, though!

I am unfamiliar with coconut flour- sorry!

[Mama Mangia]

Yukky - allergic to it....................................

Let's talk about us instead - aren't we all nuts anyway???


LOL

[chubbyalaskagriz]

mama- between you and I (strawberry & coconut allergies) we're missing-out on some of the world's dang-finest morsels!

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I know I'm a nut, but I honestly thought it was just me Mama are you allergic to all nuts or just coconut? You poor thing, I would just be so sad if I could not have coconut.

There is a salad my Aunt makes that is nothing more than:

Mandarin Oranges 2 cans drained
Pineapple Chunks 1 LG. can drained
Flaked Coconut 3/4 cup
1 8 oz. sour cream
1 cup colored mini-marshmallows

Mix all together, let marinate over night and serve. This stuff is so delicious and goes over big with the kids (BIG OR LITTLE) really good!!!!

[mrsjimmyp]

Yes...Mama...we are all or at least some us are Nuts !

I like Coconut ok...nothing special .....Hubby hates it.

[KYHeirloomer]

Friend Wife loves coconut. Me, I can take it or leave it.

But I did make Kevin's coconut shrimp shortly after he posted the recipe. Did it as a starter, and next time it will be a main course. It's really good.

[Mama Mangia]

Coconut - bad, bad, bad - all other nuts - just love 'em! Even all the nuts here! LOL

In all honesty - I love all kinds of nuts, plain, salted, in baking, in cooking - not fussy at all!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

My nephew can't stand nuts. Whenever I take a cake , cookies or brownies over- he always double-checks with me by asking: "Uncle Kevin- you didn't put any "bones" in this, right?" Hee-Hee! L'il devil! I don't know when he started calling nuts "bones" but I have to say- I clearly understand his connection!

(Also, we hear lots about peanut allergies these days, but from my professional cooking days, I seem to recall running into more folks who had walnut allergies, than peanut.)

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Gosh Kev it looks like it's you & me and KYH's Friend Wife against the world
on this coconut thang!!! I was licking my chomps thinking someone would post a really great Coconut Macroon recipe, and some Chocolate Coated Coconut balls, and well that just fell like a damp, sour, dirty old kitchen rag straight into the garbage can

Well excuse me all you other coconut "take it or leave it", "hate the stuff", am "allergic to the stuff "out & out coconut haters, but I really must tell you "Mas por mi'" hee-hee that's spanish for MORE FOR ME!!!

Here's are a few of my favorite coconut dishes Coconut Cake and Coconut Cream pie, and yes KYH the Coconut Fried Shrimp are excellent!!! I make a "Tres Leches" cake with coconut milk that is to die for!!! "Tres Leches" is spanish for three milks. Have you ever had that Kev? I believe you would love it! I wonder if Arturo ever made you one?

Anyhow I am certain that the next nut we talk about - No it's not MamaM! Gosh can ya' all please behave..........I meant cashews

Let's see how many "SP" foodies like cashews and have some terrific uses for them!!!! Come on guys let's have fun..... and see how cashews have brightened up your life...........