Coconut Milk

I have had several inquiries about making coconut milk, so I thought I would share a short post on how mine turned out. 

I thought the cashew milk was creamy and soooo delicious. But, coconut milk, omgosh. I may never look back to the others again. 🥰

For this particular batch I used a young coconut. The young coconuts are harvested from the tree before they have time to age and drop like the mature brown husked coconuts.
The young coconuts contain more coconut water and less coconut meat versus the mature coconut. Also, the meat is much softer and is said to have less flavor. I opted to use a young coconut as that was all I could find in the local grocery store. It was a little tricky figuring out how to cut into the coconut. I finally went to Youtube and searched for a video. Definitely glad I did that.   👌

I was able to get two cups of coconut water in which I saved for drinking plain. Yum. I was able to scrape out 1 and 1/3 cups of coconut meat. I ended up using just 1 cup for making the milk. Also, with the young coconut there was no pulp left after blending so I didn't have to strain the mixture before using.

Ingredients:
1 cup of coconut meat
2 cups of water
dates - optional
cocoa or cacao powder - optional 
vanilla - optional

Add ingredients to blender. Mix for 2 minutes, pour into a container and refrigerate. After chilling the milk does thicken. You can add more water to thin it to your preference, if desired. This milk was sooo flavorful. I can only imagine how more flavorful it would be if using a mature coconut. 💓

Oat Milk

Have you tried making oat milk? I just love how easy it is
to make this tasty, dairy free, milk alternative. I've been experimenting with different ingredients. So far my favorites are blueberry, chocolate and vanilla. Yum. 

There are several online places that state to soak the oats for several minutes before blending, then some sites that say that soaking will make your milk slimy. I have tried both ways and do find the soaked oats to be a little slimy, so I chose to not soak. 

After trying different ways of straining, I have found that using a clean dishcloth works the best. I do however use a strainer for that first straining as that gets the biggest amount of blended oatmeal out making the next 2 strainings easier.


Ingredients: 

1 cup of old fashioned oats
4 cups of water
dish cloth
high speed blender
fine mesh strainer
small bowl
dates for sweetener - optional
vanilla - optional
fresh fruit - optional
spices - optional
cacao or cocoa - optional
 
Add 1 cup of old fashioned oats, 4 cups of water and any other  
ingredients to your blender and blend for 30 to 45 seconds, strain 
through a fine mesh strainer. 

oats, frozen blueberries, cacao

Next, wet the dishcloth with water, squeeze as much water out as you can. Lay the cloth across the top of a small bowl. Slowly pour the oat milk into the enter of the cloth, gather the ends and squeeze out the liquid into the bowl. Repeat until all the milk has been strained. Rinse the cloth good and repeat the straining one more time.

Refrigerate until chilled then enjoy. Drink it plain, pour over cereal, add to your coffee. I use it for making chia pudding. Yum. So many possibilities. 


The milk does separate as it sits in the refrigerator. That doesn't change the flavor at all. Just give it a good shake and you're good to go. Should be used within 3 days.

cacao, blueberry, cinnamon vanilla, oat milks