Gino bought this coconut ginger soup base in hopes of a yummy taste of Thai at home. However…
He’d been talking about it for weeks and decided to make it today for lunch with some pot-stickers that I was making. I don’t like coconut but was willing to have taste of it just to try it. The recipe called for only 4 ingredients: Coconut Ginger Soup Mix, Coconut Milk, chicken breasts, and chicken broth.
The coconut milk can was difficult to open (shouldn’t have anything to do with the taste right). Gino eventually had to use a can punch to get it open and metal shards from using the can opener got into his hand. Not working out so good there…
When he opened the coconut ginger soup base, he takes a whiff and says, “This smells like something?” Then he hands it to me for a smell. I take a whiff and say, “It smells like Pine-Sol®! Seriously!” He laughs and says yes and continues making his soup. After adding the soup base to the coconut milk and chicken broth and letting it simmer.
He leans over his pot and with a spoon in his hand, he takes a taste… He looks at me and says, “It tastes like Pine-Sol®!” I wasn’t about to try it just for the fact that it smelled like Pine-Sol® and then to have him say it tasted like it too. No way! He said he couldn’t eat it so he threw it out and made stir-fry! It was the worst Thai food Gino said he’s ever tasted!
