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.
For a quick weeknight dinner, serve your family Beefy Calzones. You can get a jump-start on the prep by making a ground beef-kidney bean mixture ahead of time and freeze the portion that you don't use.
This Hedgehog "Cake" recipe contains licorice, toblerone swiss milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat, baker's semi-sweet chocolate, cool whip lite whipped topping, jelly bean and more.
