Coconut and Conch Shell
Taken during the 25th Chennai Photowalk at Parrys Corner
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eJuice Recipe: Coconut Hilton Mix
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Red snapper cooked in parchment
Before baking in parchment envelopes... Red snapper, Ginger, green onion, snap peas, tomato, lime, mint, coconut milk. They all steam together, there is no after picture because we ate them right up. With a sauce made of coconut milk, chili, ginger, cumin and lime. Will make again fo dinner soon.
I've got coconuts from Brazil
Truth be told, they're on my hard drive... in jpg form... but to get them there, I made a special request.
Martin is a photographer living in Germany that I've used via iStockphoto to shoot specific photos when I've needed them for my business. When he mentioned he was heading to Brazil, I casually asked him something like: "if you happen to see coconuts while you're there... specifically with a Brazilian cutting one... or processing it... or anything like that..." I needed them to showcase one of my product ingredients, coconut oil. Fast-forward a few weeks and the photos are available to me via iStock. Now I would have loved to fly to Brazil and photograph the coconuts myself, so I did the next best thing and asked Martin to tell me more about the context of the shots. Here's what he told me:The coconuts are practically everywhere you go, especially at the beaches and markets. These pics were taken at a beach near Ubatuba. Quite a funny story, we weren't too lucky with the weather, so we went to this very beautiful beach which was practically empty, nobody there, except a couple selling some fried food and coconuts from their pick-up truck. They were really nice people and happy to have customers that day since we were the only people there. They were more than happy to let me take some shots :) I don't know about California but over here you don't get these fresh green coconuts, only once they are dried and brown (and then they usually taste awful). However, there is nothing more refreshing than a fresh coconut, you can drink from it with a straw. I miss them already!
Now that I'm coco for coconuts, I went to another source to learn more. My uncle, who's married to a Brazilian, shared this:
The coconuts I've seen on trees in Brazil & Hawaii were green. You poke a hole in them to drink the juice, but the solid part inside is still under developed at that stage...when the green coconut ripens it turns yellow. They are then left in the sun to dry until the yellow outer shell hardens. This is then removed (probably with a hammer or hammer /chisel combination), and the familiar brown nut is found inside it.
You see? It never hurts to ask.
(Martin, are you heading to Ghana anytime soon?)
More about my iStock photographers here
How Many Calories in Fruit ?
Type of Fruit Amount Calories Kilojoules Apples (all varieties)
Apricots
Avocado
Banana
" Lady Finger
Blueberries
Blackberries
Breadfruit
Cantaloupe (rockmelon)
Carambola Star Fruit
Cherries
Coconut
Coconut Water
Crabapples
Cranberries
Cumquats
Currants
Custard Apple
Dates
Figs
Fruit Salad (fresh average)
Grapefruit
Grapes
Jackfruit
Kiwifruit
Lemon
Lime
Lychees
Mandarin
Mango
Mulberries
Nectarine
Olives (all types)
Oranges (all varieties)
Pawpaw (Papaya)
Passionfruit
Peaches
Pears
Pineapple
Plums
Pomegranate
Quince
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Rockmelon (Cantaloupe)
Sapotes
Strawberries
Tangerine
Tomato
Watermelon / Rockmelon
1 medium
1 large
1 large
1 medium
1 large
1 medium
1 cup
1 cup
100 grams
1 cup cubed
1 medium
1 medium
100 grams
250 mls
1 cup sliced
1/2 cup
6 large
1/2 cup
1 medium
3 only
1 medium
1 cup
1 medium
1 large bunch
1 medium
1 medium
1 medium
1 small
1 medium
1 medium
1 medium
1 cup
1 medium
1 medium
1 medium
1 small
1 medium
1 medium
1 medium
1 cup cubes
1 medium
1/2 medium
100 grams
100 grams
1 cup cubes
1 cup cubes
1 medium
1 large
1 small
1 medium
1 thick slice
65
100
20
255
100
50
50
50
100
40
55
5
270
50
90
20
50
35
200
160
50
120
20
310
320
40
25
10
10
35
100
60
30
10
80
80
15
40
75
55
35
75
50
25
25
40
140
10
35
20
70270
420
85
1065
420
210
210
210
420
165
230
20
1130
210
380
85
210
140
840
670
210
500
85
1300
1345
165
105
40
40
145
420
250
135
42
335
335
65
165
315
230
150
315
210
105
105
165
590
42
150
85
300
There's a quiz in my department and one of the question is, "Which fruit has the most calories?" Google to the rescue!!! It appears to be coconut / avocado.
Toddy Pots
via flickr.com
Pots containing toddy (a fermented alcoholic drink made from the coconut palm) in a restaurant in Kerala, India.
Thanks Vivek!
