This dish used a fair amount of ingredients (and consequently a hatchet) to put together.  The ingredients part was fine, made for a fun morning at the Indian Grocery store.  The hatchet well, that was my own fault.  Sometimes I get a bit ambitious, like yesterday when I decided I would use fresh coconut in this dish instead of buying a bag already shredded.  So, I did what anyone would do when faced with the challenge of getting fresh coconut meat.

1.  Went to YouTube.  Unfortunately, the video didn’t really work so I didn’t get past the woman in the jungle smashing the whole coconut on a large spear (which I do not own)

2.  Throw the coconut on the patio outside to see if it cracks

3. Get a chisle from the basement and pound with a rubber mallet

4. Realize the chisel isn’t right, move on to phillips screwdriver

5.  Create small hole, revel in pouring out

the milk, realize that I still can’t get the meat

6. Procure hatchet from

basement.  Scare children with hatchet.  Smash coconut with hatchet on kitchen floor

Then I made the dish.  Here’s the recipe.  It was not super duper fantastic.  But with work and a bag of shredded coconut, it could be a keeper.  http://www.mycookingjourney.com/2013/03/chow-chow-poricha-kootu-bm-26-chayote.html