hawaiian luau

[freakygirl]

It's raining today, I wanted to go to the beach... my daughter wanted to stay home and have a luau.

We went to the grocery store to get milk, and came home with fresh pineapple, coconuts, strawberries, bananas and assorted melons.

We made leis with paper flowers and grass skirts with paper grass and Dads belts. They are quit cute.. and we are having lots of fun looking at stuff on the net about Hawaii. (I figured why not slip in some educational stuff with all the fun, ya know? She doesn't know she is learning.. she thinks she is just having fun)

Ok, now a question for everyone

How the hell do you get a coconut open? LOL

Never bought a fresh one before.. there is milk in them, isn't there? Is it drinkable?

Help!!!! LOL

 

[Summery]

That sounds like so much fun, FG. How creative.

I have no clue about cracking open a coconut. Though I have a few ideas, they just aren't safe.

 

[unclej]

don't try to open it with a knife!!!! take a hammer and hit it sharply on the end with the "eyes". it should poke a hole in it and you can drain the milk which is, indeed, very drinkable. then you can go ahead and smash the hell out of it and get the coconut out. hint-do your original smashin' outside.

 

[koalabear]

If you want to perfect halves, put it in a vice and use a hand saw to saw it in half. Otherwise you will have a shattered shell.

 

[Wiggles]

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

That'll work if you have a cleaver.

(I love Google!)

 

[freakygirl]

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

That'll work if you have a cleaver.

(I love Google!)

I love google too.. but see here is my problem. My daughter is 6 and thinks I know everything. So I couldn't look up on the net to find out how to do this without her seeing how dumb mom really is


Or maybe it's more like.. I didn't think to look it up on the net

 

[lickerish]

I just took a nail and hammer and whacked it through the eye of the nut. Drain the juice.. make sure to make 2 hole, easier drainage.. then take the hammer to the nut and whack it to pieces to tear out all the meat.

Yeah, do it outside.

The juice should be semi sweet.. not totally sour. If it's sour, it could be un-ripe(?) or bad.

 

[SpaceToast]

I even recall using dad's old hand drill and a thick drill bit. The point being, of course, that you want to get the milk out, then start in on the meat. Try melting some semi-sweet chocolate bits for dipping the shards in -- now that's living!

A luau.... Boy, some mothers earn Mother's Day, don't they? Aloha-

-M@

 

[freakygirl]

Anyone have a cleaver I can borrow?

 

[OpposingBalance]

first you poke out the "eyes" and drain out the milk.
(you can use a screw driver and a hammer for this, just watch your fingers)
then just give the thing a good rap with the hammer and split it open