Mary:
>I bought one of those little coconut huts at the Asian market but don't
know
>what to do with it.

As Donna (welcome Donna--we also lived in Thailand for a time)
mentioned,
it is a baby coco. To open it, you can use a Chinese cleaver (a
machete
works well too but I doubt that you have one ;)). Holding the hut from
the
bottom with your left hand (if you are right-handed) you whack the
cleaver
into the top four or five times in a square or pentagonal pattern,
cutting
out a piece that you can lift off--kinda like making a removable lid.
Don't
cut off your fingers. And be prepared for a little spillage as a
beginner.

>From there you can suck the water out with a straw (very paleo ;)) after
which you can use a spoon to scrape out the (hopefully) jelly-like
white
pudding flesh.

>Also, how long does it keep, it's just sitting in my refrigerator.

About a week, but you don't know how long it sat at the market or how
long
before that it was picked, so who knows.

Cheers,
Kirt

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