I once tried making a coconut curry rice dish (I had had one at a restaurant a couple days prior). My boyfriend came grocery shopping with me. I had no recipe and didn't think I would need one...I thought I had it all figured out. Well long story short my boyfriend talked me into using a real coconut, since they don't have much liquid inside I put the coconut through a juicer and used it that way. I added sugar (big mistake - I only thought it would need sugar - I had never seen a recipe for anything like it before)...Tasted horrible..I tried fixing it by adding different spices...in the end it taste to bad to even eat....trashed it. I don't know what I was thinking. The next time I made it I bought a little jar of green curry paste and followed the recipe on the side..Delicious.