Best Plantain Recipes

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Remove the jars and lids from the simmering water with a jar lifter or tongs; fill with the tomatoes and some chilies and bay leavesFill and close. Mix cornmeal, bread crumbs and salt and pepper on another plate.

Taste, and add additional hot peppers or hot sauce, salt, and pepper. This year I found myself not only with the two cherry tomatoes I actually planted, 'Sweet Millions' and 'Black Cherry', but also with several volunteer plants that sprung up among this...

Sadly, modern hosts are more likely to serve up a fruitcake joke than a slice of the real thing.A kooky or eccentric person may be labeled “nutty as a fruitcake”. Panforte, a classic Italian dessert, is similarly filled with fruit and nuts.

That is 'good eating' as we used to say. Add the chopped tomatoes and juice and simmer until thickened. Break up several pieces of bacon and drop into pan. Make them the size of a huge Tomcat's head.I hope you enjoy making tomato gravy, grits and cathead...

Also in the southwest, they grind small hominy until it is very fine and use it for tamale and tortilla dough.The canned hominy you find on the shelf in your grocery has less food value when compared to the homemade hominy of years ago.

They are not bundled together as whole plants. The sauce can be poured on greens, peas, butterbeans, and other vegetables for seasoning, and the peppers can be eaten.A combination of banana peppers and cayenne peppers makes an excellent pepper sauce.Cornbread...

He called up the vendor and yelled at them. The recipe I used contained 1 teaspoon bleach, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 1 teaspoon white vinegar to 1 quart or liter of water. (I show here a stand-in bouquet that fellow DG subscriber frostweed received as a...

If yours gets out of hand, the only thing left to do is start cooking with it. My favorite dish to make with this variety of oregano is lemony Greek potatoes. Spread the potatoes onto a baking sheet, top with snipped oregano leaves and squeeze on some...

Roll the top crust and cut into strips for lattice covering.Place pear mixture into the pie plate and make the lattice topping. Remove from heat and allow to cool.Roll bottom crust and line the pie plate.

The problem was that nobody knew what it meant. Herbalists still recommend balm as a tonic and as a sedative. I sure hope I didn't drop that sprig of balm in my milk.Complementary and Alternative Medicines, Third edition, Fetrow and Avila,PharmD, Lippincott...

You're going to love making your own vanilla sugar. Chefs refer to this as vanilla "caviar," but she had no doubt about what to call it. Little fingers are good at picking off the stubborn bits! While we rinsed and dried the bottles, we discussed how...

Bredes; either using plenty of water and cooking for some time which will lead to a kind of soup ('bouillon') or without any water on strong fire which will produce a more consistent result ('fricassee').

Grease two 8" round pans and line with paper circles. I'm not sure I've ever even seen parchment paper, but the circles I trace out of brown paper bags or plain white paper seem to work fine.

Some surprises were in order and the editors found that things like ordinary bagged carrots had just as much flavor and were as tender as their pricey counterparts sold bundled with the tops intact.Each vegetable, from artichokes to zucchini is discussed...

Add to the leaf mixture and mix thoroughly pour into a spray bottle and spray mixture onto infected leaves.4 cups sliced fresh rhubarb, or thawed and drained frozen sliced rhubarbPrepare the pie shell.

I put the grated pumpkin in a pot, add a tablespoon of butter and a cup of sugar, then cook it on low heat. Even if it's not a holiday of my country, it has somehow become mine too, ever since I joined Dave's Garden.

Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. The following is a recipe to use lavender in a refreshing drink.In a medium saucepan, combine water sugar and strawberries. My favorite blend is lavender and tangerine and I have found that goat milk soap...

Each flower produces three stigmas, also called threads or strands, used for culinary purposes. In Arabia saffron-flavored tea is so popular it's available in tea bags in the supermarket.It seems ironic that the world's most expensive spice is a common...

To store, wash and blot it dry with a paper towel. At this point it is no longer good for use as cilantro, but you can let it go and harvest the coriander seeds later in the season.Cilantro is best used fresh as the dried leaves lose their flavor.

Not only were the foods delicious, but they became family traditions straight out of the garden. It seems like we did not even think about frying them until we moved South. If you have an abundance of green tomatoes, be sure to check out the other recipes...

Ground almond meal/flour is used for a high protein, low carbohydrate pasta for the carb-counting dieter.For gluten-free pasta, use kamut or spelt flours as direct substitutes for wheat flour.I have noticed that most herb pasta recipes will use up to...

Remove the cut stems, leaves and roots and compost them to keep down pest populations. It was even rumored that it was among several fruits and vegetables were said to cause the Plague and were to be avoided at all costs.

Decorate with slices of strawberries from your garden. I like chunks of cold ice cream in my coffee while my husband likes to stir to melt the chunks. In 1995, we bought a industrial strength blender and created soups, juices, peanut butter and, of course,...

I especially like to add them to salads, where they add another layer of flavor. From Italian pasta dishes (like spaghetti Bolognese) to French stews (such as beef Bourgiugnon) , thyme connects you to old-world flavors, and to the kind of cooking that...

After boiling the meat with pepper, laurel and vegetables, I add garlic into the soup and filter it through a strainer, then add jello and pour over the meat (no bones allowed!)The second day I will make the beef vegetable salad, my favorite.

Then I cut each half into 3 to 5 wedges, depending on the size of the potato, just as if I were cutting up an orange for the table. But many of us are confounded when facing any of the "other" common root vegetables, such as turnips, parsnips, or rutabaga.