Love your combination, the fried plantain is a perfect touch. anna maria on March 14th, 2010 at 9: 34 pm. From Wordnik.com. [Menestra de Porotos (Bean Stew) : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz] Reference
The skin of the plantain is dried and then roasted in a clay oven in order to achieve a particular color, texture and smell. From Wordnik.com. [19 posts from November 2007] Reference
Actually, I think a plantain is a weird little banana. From Wordnik.com. [Question 3: Virtual Property] Reference
On this he feeds his family, for the plantain is the Puerto Rican peasant's bread. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference
"Our food staple is the plantain, which is shaped like a big chin. From Wordnik.com. [Amazon Rain Forest Tribe Worships Jay Leno's Chin!] Reference
Is a 'plantain' what we'd call a 'platano macho' down here (the ones used for frying)?. From Wordnik.com. [Plantain?] Reference
The red and green cooking variety of bananas is termed as the 'plantain' from the Spanish. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Benet takes traditional Puerto Rican food such as plantain, grouper, mango and corned beef. From Wordnik.com. [canada.com Top Stories] Reference
I slept at a country seat, where they were making whiskey of a kind of plantain, of which I have spoken before, which they called Mascal (Maguey). From Wordnik.com. [Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830] Reference
You can call a plantain "a weird little banana.". From Wordnik.com. [Question 3: Virtual Property] Reference
Hard 'tis for snow to pile on broken plantain leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But the greatest problem of all is the plantain or banana. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
With it, grow two tway-blades and the rattlesnake plantain. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
They made cloth of plantain-fibre -- hatchets with stone heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The glossy leaves of the banana-plantain are exceedingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Try the fried red snapper with okra fungi, fried plantain and mild Creole sauce. From Wordnik.com. [Dwight Brown: The U.S. Virgin Islands -- 3 Unique Isles, 3 Unique Experiences.] Reference
She rushed to the river and brought water in a folded plantain leaf and dashed it into his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The stem of the banana-plantain is cut down after fruiting, and the tree is propagated by suckers. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Live chickens are running around, and the smells of coconut milk, spices and plantain fill the air. From Wordnik.com. [DINNER AS THEATER] Reference
Finger, require from 20 to 25 feet apart each way, as do the stronger-growing varieties of plantain. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
One plantain in a garden will eat out not only the flowers in the plats, but the very grass in the borders. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Rose-water and plantain in equal parts makes a refreshing wash, and elderberry water is said to be good when there is. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
But the most notable achievement to be recorded of the Atlantean agriculturists was the evolution of the plantain or banana. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
Hemp is produced from the bark of a species of the plantain-tree, forests of which are found growing wild in some provinces of the. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
The streets are very sandy, but they are ornamented with a profusion of cocoa, plantain and banana trees, which afford a partial shade. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Now it happened that little Peter was feeding his pet rabbits with plantain just outside the doors of the town-meeting that afternoon of. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
All four returned in little more than an hour, and sat down under a wild plantain tree, not three feet from Frank's place of concealment. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
Or, should it be otherwise, I am as a blighted plantain standing alone amid the sandy desert -- nothing seeks or lives beneath my shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
In addition to these three prime fruits of Java, I may mention the pine-apple, soursop, rambutan, rose-apple, guava, dookoo, and sixty different kinds of plantain and banana. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
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