Have you ever cut open a coconut? Holy moly, that is a lot of work!! I had no idea. This morning I was all set to make myself a tofu-Pina-Colada shake when I put the knife to the coconut and… nothing. That knife wasn’t going to cut through that thing if I kept at it for days. So, I headed back downstairs to look up how to open a coconut online and found out that this was no easy task and that I’d be busy a while doing so. I scrapped the Pina Colada and went for raspberry/blueberry combo instead.
When Rob came home for lunch he said, “What’s with the coconuts?” I told him my ordeal from the morning and that we’d need a hammer and nails and who knows what else to open this thing. He told me to hang on a second and went to the garage, coming back with a hammer and screwdriver and set to work. Apparently he used to do this all the time when he was stationed in Cuba. He broke those puppies open in pretty good time, but little did I know I had another 1/2 hour of work, not to mention injuries, ahead of me. Getting the skin off of each piece of the meat was an arduous task, but I feel like I got my arm workout in for the day. All’s well that ends well, I guess – I’ve got a huge container of coconut pieces in the freezer awaiting their shake fate.
And once I’m done recovering, I’ll head back up to the kitchen to make myself some lunch. I think I’m going to go with something quick and easy.