Lime and Coconut
After my New Years Eve Mexican Fiesta party i had a whole load of limes and coconuts leftover. Slightly ironic, since Coconut by Harry Nilsson was my midnight record that blew up my sound system…
Today (my birthday), i thought i’d begin putting those aforementioned limes and coconuts to good use.
Lime Pickle
I started making lime pickle according to this recipe. It seemed pretty thorough and i like the mix of spices used:
Lime Pickle from limepickle.com
I’ll keep you posted as it moves on its 5-week journey. I didn’t realise how much space 16 limes would take up and so was aiming to make 12 batches. i’ve now decided just to make 1 batch but split it in half to make ‘medium’ and ‘hot’ versions.
Coconut Milk
I have a craving for curry, and a hatred of food waste so began opening, dissecting and skinning the coconuts to make coconut milk. All the recipes i found seem to have a pretty straightforward way of making Coconut Milk:
- open the coconut, make sure they are not rancid (2 out of 6 of mine were so they got binned)
- discard (or drink) the coconut juice
- chop the flesh, removing the brown skin
- put into a blender and cover with boiled water
- blend
- put into a muslin and then drain, squeezing out all the liquid
- store the liquid – this is coconut milk
I also used the remaining blitzed coconut and dried out in the oven to make my own dessicated coconut for future use (half of which was later used on a birthday gingerbread house by lucy along with an excess bundle of pinata and xmas sweets)
Apparently in a couple of days, the coconut milk will separate and give me coconut cream but i’m going to try to use it all by then.
