HERE’S WHAT’S UP: COOKING EXPERIMENTS
We had a couple of cooking experiments last week which we would like to share with you. They both feature the love of our life, coconut.The first is this very popular snack in Cameroon called Coconut Sweet. It is toasted coconut flakes, sweetened with sugar. It is crunchy, sweet and packed with coconut flavour. It is one of those things we dream of when we think of home. For some reason, we'd never considered making ours though we occasionally find fresh coconut here. This was our first attempting at producing the snack.We broke our coconut.
Took the flesh off the shell.
Shredded using a grater.
We made sure we ate some as we shredded.At this point, we couldn’t figure out what to do next. So we turned to our food Facebook group for help. After a couple of ideas, we resorted to putting it in the oven and turning from time to time. We spread out the shreds on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. We sprinkled some sugar on top.Then we toasted it while turning from time to time. Here is the result.It didn’t quite taste or look like the one back home. Our shreds were bent and not straight like the original coconut sweet The coconut flavour wasn’t as intense. Mr N says it’s because the coconut wasn’t fresh enough. All the same, everyone jumped at it. We managed to take another picture before they finished devouring it.Then we made our first fruit pizza. Normally, fruit pizza crust is made with cookie dough but we wanted something totally healthy. So we combined whole wheat flour, oats, an egg, coconut oil and honey in a bowl.We mixed them together then placed on a pizza pan trying to form a circle with it as much as we could.We put that in the oven to bake for a couple of minutes. This is what it looked like when it was all baked.We kept that aside to cool completely while we prepared our sauce. We put some coconut cream in a bowl.We thought beating this will make it get stiffer or “peak” according to culinary language. Brethren, we beat, mix. Beat, mix! Beat, mix!!!Instead of the frosting-like mixture we had dreamed of, we had a sauce. We spread it over our cooled crust.We topped with sliced fruits.We cut through into triangles using a pizza cutter and we enjoyed. This tasted ah-mazing!Those are some of the things that happened in our kitchen last week. Hope you enjoyed going through the pictures with us.We will be trying the Coconut Sweet again. We hope to nail it. When we do, we'll share a proper recipe.For the Fruit Pizza, we'll figure out how to make a frosting that peaks and is healthy.We look forward to an awesome week!
Took the flesh off the shell.Shredded using a grater.We made sure we ate some as we shredded.At this point, we couldn’t figure out what to do next. So we turned to our food Facebook group for help. After a couple of ideas, we resorted to putting it in the oven and turning from time to time. We spread out the shreds on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. We sprinkled some sugar on top.Then we toasted it while turning from time to time. Here is the result.It didn’t quite taste or look like the one back home. Our shreds were bent and not straight like the original coconut sweet The coconut flavour wasn’t as intense. Mr N says it’s because the coconut wasn’t fresh enough. All the same, everyone jumped at it. We managed to take another picture before they finished devouring it.Then we made our first fruit pizza. Normally, fruit pizza crust is made with cookie dough but we wanted something totally healthy. So we combined whole wheat flour, oats, an egg, coconut oil and honey in a bowl.We mixed them together then placed on a pizza pan trying to form a circle with it as much as we could.We put that in the oven to bake for a couple of minutes. This is what it looked like when it was all baked.We kept that aside to cool completely while we prepared our sauce. We put some coconut cream in a bowl.We thought beating this will make it get stiffer or “peak” according to culinary language. Brethren, we beat, mix. Beat, mix! Beat, mix!!!Instead of the frosting-like mixture we had dreamed of, we had a sauce. We spread it over our cooled crust.We topped with sliced fruits.We cut through into triangles using a pizza cutter and we enjoyed. This tasted ah-mazing!Those are some of the things that happened in our kitchen last week. Hope you enjoyed going through the pictures with us.We will be trying the Coconut Sweet again. We hope to nail it. When we do, we'll share a proper recipe.For the Fruit Pizza, we'll figure out how to make a frosting that peaks and is healthy.We look forward to an awesome week!
