Let’s not all talk at once now, ladies…. Who’s first?
Well, it was Shari’s idea to create a blog site after we had a 3 out of 4 sister week where we played with coconuts.
Shari says that sounds perverse now, Deb agreed; however, I’m not sure what else you would call it.
Shari thought we should explain why we played with coconuts and even though my name shows at the top of this post, all three of us will have contributed …… SO
Take it over Shari…
Shari here (because Jennifer is insisting, and when she insists….well, you get the idea):
Over the past year, I’ve been trying to clean up my eating habits, and Jennifer has been doing the same. It seemed as if every time she came to visit me, she had a new health tip: raw honey, quinoa, Himalayan salt, chia, to name a few. A few weeks ago, Jen came to stay a night or two, she shared her latest craze: the virtues of all things coconut, which as it seems, she got from Deb.
While we were talking about it, we decided I would order some coconut oil and give it a try. She left my house and went to Deb’s for her weekend of running the karaoke show at the VFW, and next thing I know, we’re all going to provide 2 coconuts for their next trip here. How we went from buying coconut oil to making our own, I’ll never know, but welcome to the minds of the other half of life.
That’s what I get for being the youngest.
I guess I get to pick up the story from here (at least for a bit) – This is Deb. Thanks to Jen & her unlimited knowledge of all things including her skills on the computer & her extensive research on all things healthy. Shari said she didn’t know how we got from the coconut oil to creating our own.
Before Thanksgiving, my son & his family decided to make a lifestyle change to a more whole food type of eating. In my research for healthier foods, I discovered the benefits of coconut (oil, water, milk, etc). When Jen came to stay with me one weekend, we discussed the process of making coconut milk, coconut concentrate (butter), and shredded coconut.
We know that we can purchase all of these things either locally or on-line (typically through Amazon.com), but we decided to try and do as many of them as we could. Jen & I purchased a few coconuts for that weekend & milked, smashed, blended, & made coconut butter for almost an entire day!
We then decided we MUST share this experience with Shari & her boys. What a day that was. Unfortunately, we didn’t get very many pictures of the process but, we did, however have a blast!
Jen, over to you now to wrap up our first post!
So, back to me, Jen…. That’s sort of how it all went… in a (coco)nutshell.
Shari took some pictures of our coconut extravaganza and a few of the de-lish sweets that were made… (I almost said WE made- LOL I stood around watching while the co0king experts did their things.)
Deb and Shari are going to be adding some posts talking about what they created over the 2+ days we spent together.
And ……. we’ll be sharing all sorts of things, even how we all decided it was time to get together more often…. like once a month.
Til the next time… I’ll leave you with this thought…
You’re never too young or too old to have fun … So ……
Live….. Laugh… Love …..
~Jennifer