Plantains

The trick to sweet fried plantains is to let them get over ripe, sowhen you fry them they are soft and mushy on the inside, carmelizedon the outside, and super sweet all the way through. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Remove the plantains from the oven and serve at once topped with cream. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tubers -- as we call plantains, yams, yucca, potatoes, squash, and others -- are important sources of nutrients, and they are also essential dishes in the Cuban diet. ❋ Unknown (1991)

{28} Along the Coast, and in other parts of Africa, the coarser, flat-sided kinds of banana are usually called plantains, the name banana being reserved for the finer sorts, such as the little ❋ Mary H. Kingsley (1881)

Yet they entered into trade with us for rice, hens, oranges, lemons, and another kind of fruit called plantains; but held every thing very high, and brought only small quantities. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

3 Along the Coast, and in other parts of Africa, the coarser, flat-sided kinds of banana are usually called plantains, the name banana being reserved for the finer sorts, such as the little “silver banana.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

The addition of the plantains is supposed to cost $.75, but they didn’t charge me, so maybe it’s free. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A quick, flavorful pork-and-raisin braise makes an almost-classic Latin American topping for roasted plantains, which is served like an open-face sandwich. ❋ Mark Bittman (2010)

In the heat of battle, I tested some wild weapons -- a flamethrower to toast weeds known as plantains and a drill attachment called the Dandelion Terminator that rips out the hearts of those yellow intruders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I would have been okay with a everything else, but the plantains were a crash-landing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We returned home to breakfast, and sent the new-married couple some sugar-candy, plantains, and raisins; the first and last of these articles had been made a present of to us, and the plantains were the produce of the mission garden. ❋ George Smith (1876)

We tried some fried plantains, which is a small green fruit that looks similar to a banana.

Early on the 24th the carpenters began to repair the sheathing under the larboard bow, where we found two planks cut about half through; and in the mean time I sent a party of men, under the direction of Mr Gore, in search, of refreshments for the sick: This party returned about noon with a few palm cabbages, and a bunch or two of wild plantain; the plantains were the smallest I had ever seen, and the pulp, though it was well tasted, was full of small stones. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Many of the weeds, such as plantains, are stressed and setting seed early, so pollen counts here in the Pollen Basket of the World are high. ❋ FUZZARELLY (2007)