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12-31-2007, 08:05 PM
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What is your favorite brand?
Do you prefer regular over light, or vice versa?
Do you think any recipes you've made have suffered from using light?
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I don't have a favorite brand - and I have not tried light... but I recently read something about it. I think it was in one of my New Best Recipe books. They said they preferred the light - I think they said they thought it added more coconut flavor with out masking the other flavors (curry)or making it too rich.
I am planning on trying this the next time I make curry or panang curry. I'll be interested to see if anyone else has any experience with the light.
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I think it is important not to confuse the c.n. milk and cream. They very different.
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Funny you should mention it! I buy whatever coconut milk is on sale - and we usually buy a lot at a time, love it to death.
Today we stopped at a Latin American restaurant for lunch. In addition to all of the wonderful food they had blackbeans and rice cooked together in coconut milk. I could have made a meal on that alone - but everything else was too good!
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I've just been getting the least-expensive brand at the time. It's usually the same brand, most times, but I don't recall the name right now (though it IS in Spanish, and probably not a U.S.-available brand).
In general, I get the one that's L15 or L16, thus, 80 to 85 cents per can.
Although I don't like the coconut meat (a texture thing, again), I love the flavour of the coconut milk, and especially like to use it in place of regular milk in my favourite custard recipe. YUM!
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Sharon, I made a rice & bean dish cooked in coconut milk just a while back - it was soooo rich, but really flavorful.
I think I have bought both, but right now I have 3 cans of Chaokoh, a product of Thailand. I don't remember disliking the light, so probably did not make much difference.
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That's the brand we usually get.
We cook a lot of rice in coconut milk. It's something Jennifer brought back from a trip to Jamaica. A favorite is cooked in coconut milk and tossed with pickled (sushi) ginger bits and green onions.
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I usually get Trader Joe's brand. It's only .99. They only sell light. I am convinced I like the Thai Kitchen brand better but it's more than twice the cost as TJ's.
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labradors - are you thinking of Goya?
No - That's one that would almost definitely be available in the States. I'll just have to take a look when I go to the store, tomorrow.
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Took a couple extra days, because of New Year's and the rain, but here's a list (combining two different stores) of the brands of coconut milk available here:
- Tropical
- Jajá
- Vigo
- Goya
- Hom-D
- Crown
- Thai Kitchen
- Thai Agri
- ¡Ya Está!
- Elmigo
- Promos
- Roland
Again, I just usually get the least-expensive one at the time, which usually turns out to be Tropical, Roland or Thai Agri, at about 85 cents per can - certainly NOT Thai Kitchen, at about $3.00 per can.
If blueberry muffins have blueberries in them, what do vegan muffins have?