Plantatoes
I made up a word today. well, i think i did. it could have been anyone i guess, but i'm not doing any research to find out if someone else may have come up with it at some point. anyway. i tried plantains again for the second time in my life. the first time was in far away, in rhode island. at a mall. so i remember them being ok.. kinda dry, but ok. well tonight i had planned to get some vegetables (two of them ended up being fruits, but whatever) and cook them and eat them for dinner. so i got baby bok choi (which you can't make wrong), crookneck yellow squash, and a plantain... the kind that's not really ripe, so it was mostly green with a little yellow. i steamed the bok choi with garlic and a little Worcestershire sauce. and i cubed the plantain and cooked it in a little oil with a tiny bit of salt. and then the squash in that same oil with some pepper and salt.. anyway. it turned out a great dinner and i found that plantains taste so much like potatoes that i have a substitute now. if i can cook them in other potato ways then i'm good to go. tonight we'll see if they make me sick though. no signs yet. i'm happy about it. ok. goodnight.
2 Comments:
We ate plantains when we were in Rhode Island? All I remember eating on that trip was Arby's. Sooo much Arby's...
I wonder if we can use plantains to make pirogi or latkes? My first thought was a gratain, but it might be a little difficult to make a dairy-free bechamel. I wish I didn't love cream sauces so much. :(
I'm really excited about using the mandolin to make plantain french fries, though. I think that's what I'm MOST excited about, actually. Fresh, homemade fries with salt, hot from the fryer. Mmmm...fryer...
arby's.. mmm.. the plantains at the store were about 1.97 per lb. i think that's way way way above the price of potato, especially considering the weight of inedible peel. i think it'd be fun to make chips out of, and also i want to try mashing them.
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