Coconut Drinks

I have no idea where it came from, but for WEEKS now, Olivia and Tyler (mostly Tyler), have been begging to get a coconut and make a coconut drink.  I put them off 'til summer, then I put them off from week to week until finally, we had to do it!!

So, on "Iron Chef" on Food Network, the chefs just take a knife and whack the coconute in half..... So here we go....

Oops!!! Not so fast!!! Let me be the first to tell you that that doesn't happen in real life, you can't just whack the coconut and have it split beautifully and easily. I finally had to google "How to open a coconut" You have to poke holes in one side to drain the coconut milk, then you whack it with a hammer to open it.

After we FINALLY got to the coconut meat, we cut it out and put it in the magic bullet with some ice, the coconut milk, and a little sugar.

AND................................Survey Says:...................................................YUMMMMM!