I have a new favorite recipe!
It's an easy-peasy gem from one of my favorite food websites: Mennonite Girls Can Cook.
If you like coconut, I strongly recommend clicking the above link and giving this crustless coconut custard pie a whirl.
I wish I had taken better pictures, but it's too late now as the pie has been eaten. Maybe I'd better make another one?
Flashback! Years ago I did field work in the Caribbean National Forest. I remember driving up and down narrow, winding, mountain roads, and at one point, seeing a coconut vendor by the side of the road near a waterfall. A person, a machete, and a pile of fresh coconuts: a complete roadside stand.
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If there is an obvious association between the pie in my kitchen and a heap of coconuts in Puerto Rico, this one will be more obscure: a broken tooth and an orchid.
Sunday I broke a tooth. Apparently my life has reached a point where, in addition to lots of things aching, other things are going to simply fall off with no warning. Like half a tooth.
Don't worry - there will be no photograph of the broken tooth. Or of any teeth whatsoever. You're welcome.
But here is a preview of the orchid:
My truly lovely dentist made time for me to come to the office Monday morning, for some very welcome smoothing of sharp edges. (Welcome and successful: further treatment in the form of a crown can be postponed for a while, I am happy to say.)
So I left the office with good news, the ability to speak without wincing, and the bonus image of this orchid which was brightening the pristine treatment room:
Is it not a beauty?
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