Coconut Tapioca Pudding

Happy Saturday. Today I'd like to share a recipe I've been preparing for years. We went to visit friends in the San Francisco area about 10 years ago. Some one recommended a restaurant called Betel nut. My brother Jim, his wife Virginia, Michael and I enjoyed an incredible Asian meal, we had a shy, beautiful waitress, as the meal progressed and we loved everything so much, (we'd had two martinis before lunch so everything tasted "amazing). She became more confident, she insisted that we try the tapioca pudding, it was her favorite and we just had to have some.

We ordered the tapioca pudding, it was the most incredible pudding we'd all ever tasted. When I got back home to Boston, I tried to find a recipe that would be close, tried a few and none of them had that same rich, unique flavor. I finally wrote the chef at Betel nut and asked him to please, oh please share the recipe. A couple of weeks later I received a response with the very simple recipe.

Jell-o Brand Fat Free Tapioca pudding
Coconut Milk (not lite)

Cook according to directions but substitute coconut milk for regular milk.

Note: You can use the lite coconut milk, (I have) it is still delicious but just not incredible.

That's it. I was amazed, couldn't be that easy. It is actually what he used to make the pudding for the restaurant. Well, I tried it and yes, in fact it was the wonderful pudding. I don't make it very often it is high in fat, but according to my natural path doctor Coconut oil and coconut milk is the best fat for your diet and it is non-dairy (YEA!).

I hope you'll all give this a try you won't be disappointed. I made some last week but had only prepared one small box, Kirstin said "OMG you have to make more of this". COOK ON..........