vamos a comer!

This is a plantain.

Platano in spanish.

A cousin to the common banana.

I ate it in Ecuador a lot.

It was actually good.

Shocker, I know.

You don't peel it and pop it in your mouth like that boring old banana.

It's really hard and starchy like a potato.

Not sweet at all, unless you wait until the peel turns yellow.

(It's also eaten sweet and yellow, but not by me, if I have a choice.)

So you cut it open, slice it, fry it, squish it with a cup, then fry it again.

Really healthy.

Ok, not so healthy, but really yummy.

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Why this culinary blast from the past you ask?

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Hootis had to try 5 new fruits/vegetables that she'd never eaten before, for her Health class.

I bought Plantain, Mango, Papaya, Blood Oranges, and Spaghetti Squash.*

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The only food that everyone liked was the Plantain.  The rest received mixed reviews.

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I personally declined the Mango and Papaya.  I sometimes wonder if I eat too much food from South of the Border if my stomach bugs from South of the Border will come alive.

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They're dormant you know.

*Stick had an allergic reaction to one (or more I guess) of these foods.  We don't know which one though!  He's developed a few really odd food allergies in the last few years.

Don't even think of offering him a pistachio.

We don't like visiting the ER.

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You people have never had spaghetti squash before?? What in the world? What an atrocity!

**KT

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