The next decade....what's in store?
Musings of a yamfooted traveller still trying to shake off those last 20 pounds as she treks across the Caribbean
The other day there was a huge grasshopper living in the house. There are lots of bugs here....bush on three sides of the house you know.
Anyway, when I buy plantains, I leave them out so they can get nice and ripe for frying. I came back one day to find what looked like when a bird takes a bite of a mango on a tree. I thought nothing of it, but I knew it wasnt a rat because I didnt see any evidence of that (not like you Stunner!).
Then I got some green bananas and those too were left in the fruit basket to get ripe. Came back one day to find a bit in one of the fingers.
Now the grasshopper has disappeared. Left out some new plantains but nothing has been bitten. So I am definitely thinking that it must have been the grasshopper. But mi neva know seh dem did 'ave teet?
Posted by yamfoot at March 9, 2008 11:28 PMTry baking the plantain. Slice, brush them with a little olive oil on both sides and bake. They will come out crispy and nice with less calories than when you fry them.
Posted by: larr at March 10, 2008 01:56 PMYammy,
In my most Trini/JA accent. You mad no backside gurl.Here I was saying I am nutts, as I try to learn how to roast ahh breadfruit, scale freaking fish, how much East Indian mango me can get away with eating before me ahh get nuff runney belly, and you bring up dee Grasshopper.
Only inna dee Carribbean.
As these issues/ words were not part of my life/ vocabulary three years ago. Onward we go right, saying tahk God for the sun.
Leh me know when you figure out wha nyaming yuh plantain. I love them as well, and its' one of the few things I remember from my childhood days in Trini. NY City, Plantain was never as good, as dee Haitians like them green, and the Koreans who sold them, never knew what Plantain was all about even though them was selling plantain in Park Slope Bklyn. No joke.
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