Coconut Craze

I've been playing around in the kitchen using coconut in various forms as an ingredient. Sunday I made double coconut muffins. The double coconut came from using coconut oil and sweetened coconut. Combined with 2 types of flour and greek style yogurt, the muffins came out moist and yummy, and had tons of coconut flavor. I was very happy with how they came out. I will tweek the recipe and try using coconut yogurt for triple coconut muffins and see how that comes out. I will post recipes later for those who enjoy coconut as much as i do.

Tonights experiment also used coconut in two ways: coconut oil again and coconut cream. Instead of baking I went for a savory meaty use of coconut. I seared some pork chops and then added the coconut oil to the fond and pork drippings left in my pan. Once the lipids melted together, I added a ton of green curry paste to the fat and some basil and garlic. After incorporating the curry and letting it roast in the pan, I dumped in a can of coconut cream to complete the curry sauce. I put the chops back in the pan and let them drown in the sauce and transferred the pan into the oven.

Right now the chops are out of the oven, resting so I can devour them like a good carnivore. I need to find more ways to incorporate coconut into savory dishes, I really like the flavor it adds, and its fun to find ways to cook with coconut that arent deserts or have a ton of extra sugar added.

Now I want horchara.