Tuesday, May 4, 2010

~A yummy Colombian food~

~This past Monday Phillip came home from visiting our 2 churches away from Bogota. He brought several gifts for our family from our church people there. One of the gifts were these plantain (large bananas). They gave them to us so we could make a Colombian food called "Patacones".
~You peel these plantains (above), and fry them whole in oil until they are tender. Then you squish them between 2 wooden cutting boards, dip them in salty water (which helps them be salty) and then fry them a little longer. Then you place them on the plate and top them with chopped ham, grated cheese, a special white sauce, a pink sauce, and then top them with crushed potato chips. I know they sound interesting, but they were delicious.~
~Phillip helped me make them, for I knew that I wouldn't have the energy to do it all by myself.~Behind us you will see the 3 hanging baskets that Phillip put together and hung for me to store fruit in the bottom one and other things in the other baskets.

3 comments:

Kim M. said...

Sounds interesting. I might like it though. I like to try things. :-)

lila said...

Didn't sound to good at first, but the but the more I read the better it sounded and the finished product looks good enough to eat. love you tons

Doug and Kim Hoffman said...

That was interesting to see how they make the plantains there. They make them differently here. Everything sounded the same until you said you added the toppings. Here they deep fry them twice, flattening them in between, and then salt them and eat! Like a substitute french fry. I've learned to love them and crave them! The salt water in between was interesting. I'll have to try that. I can never get the salt to stick after I deep fry them.

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