While not nearly as sweet as bananas, plantains do have a sweet flavor. In this soup we keep that sweetness at bay by using firm plantains with green skins rather than riper brown-skinned ones--the sugars will have not yet developed, so the fruit will add starchy body to the soup without too much sweetness.
Living in rural Tuscany has its advantages - home fed chicken! So many of our dinners consist of chicken but to tell you the truth I had never thought of using mustard with it. So thanks to food52 I came up with a new recipe. I had guests for dinner and wanted to make a more elaborate dish so I chose to use only chicken thighs with a very velvety mustard sauce. I chose to cook the sauce in a French style using the classic method of using chicken stock and a little roux to give the sauce more smoothness. The sage and garlic gave it a really nice taste and I served it with mashed potatoes
This Hot Bacon, Ham & Cheese Roll-Ups with BBQ Dipping Sauce recipe contains oscar mayer bacon pieces, miracle whip dressing, kraft 2% milk, oscar mayer thin sliced smoked ham, kraft original barbecue sauce.
Mark Bittman’s grilled skirt steak gets the Argentinean treatment. The Minimalist serves it with tangy chimichurri sauce made with parsley and garlic.
