Creamy Coconut Rice, and the Art of Softening Hard Days

A simple weeknight dish powered by MCTs, tropical food wisdom, and one very strange myth

Across the tropics, coconut (Cocos nucifera) is the great softener of hard things.

Too spicy? Add coconut.
Too sharp? Add coconut.
Too tired, too hot, too hungry, too wrung out from the day?
Rice and coconut have been solving that problem for centuries.

When things go sideways, you can start over. Start with coconut.

Creamy Coconut Rice dish from the recipe below. Coconuts and rice growing together, photo by Jeremy Wermeille via Unsplash.

There’s a myth about it.

Not a sweet one, …