Homemade Coconut Milk

I had a recipe that called for canned coconut milk, but wasn't interested in using anything from a can.  I thought, "I bet I can make coconut milk just like I do my almond milk."  So, I bought 2 young thai coconuts and here is what I did to make delicious, creamy milk!

Ingredients:

2 young thai coconuts

1 cup Filtered water

Directions:

1.  Open coconuts ( Use a coco-jack, but you can look on youtube for videos on how to get those babies open!).  Pour coconut water through a fine mesh strainer into the blender.

2.  Scrape out coconut meat and rinse off any brown skin.  Add meat to blender. 

3.  Add 1 cup filtered water.  Blend well.

4.  Refrigerate.  Good for about 1 week in fridge.

Enjoy creamy, refreshing deliciousness in anything that calls for milk. :)

Creamy Banana Milk Shake

4-5 very ripe bananas
2 cups homemade almond milk
A pinch of cinnamon
Ice

Add milk, bananas, cinnamon, in that order to blender.  Fill the remainder of blender with ice.  Belndy until creamy.  Drink up!

Almond Milk

We typically don't drink this plain, but it can be used in lots of recipes and makes for creamy smoothies!

1 cup soaked almonds
3 cups water
1-2 pitted dates

Combine and blend in high speed blender until smooth.  Drain through a colander lined with cheese cloth, or better yet use a nut milk bag if you have one!