After trying the broth while it was simmering, I couldn't wait for Jon to get home. But then when he told me he may have more than he can eat in his bowl, I knew he wasn't really psyched about it. So I got him to tell me what was wrong. He proceeded to tell me that it was too sweet for him. I accepted his complaint and moved on since others had said the same thing in the comments section of the original post containing the recipe. I was enjoying it though....or I was until I was more than half way through the bowl and it started getting too sweet for me too. We have been trying to eat better and this began to feel like it was going against all of our previous efforts. So we threw the leftovers away and I decided the Veggie Laksa was being deleted off my pinterest wall, never to be tried again by me.
Until I got curious and researched a little something that was bothering me. The can of coconut cream I thought I bought was actually cream of coconut. I caught the mistake before cooking but didn't want to run to the store again and figured it was close enough that the substitution wouldn't matter. Before I permantently banned the recipe from my life, I decided to do a bit of research to see if my assumption was correct. And of course it wasn't! According to the information I have found on the subject, it is common to use coconut cream in soups and you can buy sweetened and unsweetened cream. But cream of coconut tends to be used in drinks because it has added sugar making it really sweet.
So apparently I don't know everything like I thought!
Maybe this soup is one of those 3rd time's the charm sort of things? Not sure I want to attempt to see if that's the case.
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