Learning Something New Everyday...

Yesterday Luci and I took a walk to the market. I have been meaning to get there, it's so much cheaper to but produce there than at the regular grocery store, and it's fresher too. I took the wagon and she took her little shopping cart,complete with baby doll and cellphone. It was terribly hot and I must have looked like a sweating pig by the time we got there, but the trip was worth while.

We examined all of the fruits and veggies, including the giant, and I mean giant zucchini. We also came across some coconut. Luci had never seen a coconut so I decided to buy one for her to try. Trying new foods is always exciting and I love when the kids are willing to do it. We left with a hand full of tomatos, potatos, onions, peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, watermelon, grapes, bananas and a single coconut.

I remember trying coconut as a child. Every once in a while my dad would come home with some strange fruit to try, like pomogranite, star fruit or mangos. Now I'm doing the same things with my children. The one thing I didn't remember was how he opened them. SO, how do you open a coconut?

Luci and I have spent the last 24hrs. looking at our coconut. Shaking it to hear the coconut milk and looking at it some more. Finally we googled how to open a coconut. Suprisingly, people other than me must want to know this also, because there were many entries on the matter. I am a visual learner so I decided to go with the youtube videos. We watched three different videos, trying all three way with no success. I told Luci the one man must have had a Ginsu knife, because he got it right open. Now Luci wants one for her birthday.

Ultimately we got crazy and took the coconut out to the side walk and bashed it repeatedly with a hammer. Yes, we got psycho on it. It split and we brought it in the house where the kids dipped their fingers in it to try the milk. YUCK was unanomous. We then sliced some of the coconut to try. That was more of a silent yuck. I told the kids it tastes better dried. We decided we would like to dry the coconut and try it. Now the question is, How do you dry a coconut? And, how far are we willing to take this coconut exploration?