On Friday I headed to Babaloo Cuban Cafe on its two-month anniversary. The owner, Gladys Parada, operated a lunch truck that I never managed to try, and finally opened this sunny cafe at The Press ...
Why waste right? Just wondering if anyone had any tricks of the trade to use them up. I've searched around a bit, and all I've found is "Plantain Moi Moi" using unripe plantain flour and crayfish, ...
I have a ripe, yellow plantain. Can I eat this like I could a banana? Everything I have read online indicates that plantains must be cooked before consumption.
Ever been to a Cuban, Latin-American, or other kind of place and ordered plantains, and what has come out has been something more along the lines of a dessert...super sweet, dark or golden brown, s...
I am a big fan of plantains, and since I moved out to California a year ago I've noticed something wrong with most plantains I've bought out here. Inside, roughly in the center (of the cross-secti...
When I was in Cuba, several of the paladares served thinly sliced, fried plantains. They were similar to what you purchase in packages but hot and fresh. And absolutely delicious. Is there anywh...
I am looking for a place to buy organic plantains in Manhattan or Sunnyside. Anyone know any stores that sell organic plantains?
In better Latin and Hispanic groceries in the northeast, these are really great packaged plantain chips. Oil is immaculately fresh, plantains (green, not sweet) are carefully selected, thicknes...