He's going to suck it up and choke 'em down.

Cabbage and Ramen Noodle Salad • 05.13.10 Tortilla Soup • 02.15.10 We’re winging it over here – come along for the ride! Cuban ground beef with fried plantains • 01.22.10 “I’m sorry, you’re doing what with those bananas?”Â  That’s what everyone wanted to know when I started heating up the oil to fry the plantains.

“These are not bananas.Â  They are plantains.”Â  I didn’t have a plan for them when I purchased them, and as they sat on my counter, slow turning from green to yellow, yellow to black and yellow, I figured I’d better get off the stick and come up with a plan.

Of course, since I’ve never cooked with plantains before, I wasn’t sure where to start.Â  I thought about making muffins or something, but remembered that they are often used in savory dishes.Â  So I went internet diving to see what I could find.Â  Good ole Emeril had a recipe for a Pinon, a Cuban-style Beef and Plantain Pie. That sounded pretty darn good to me, but I thought the kids wouldn’t eat it if it was all baked together like that.Â  And then I found this recipe for Arroz ala Cubana that also sounded amazing.Â Â  I decided to riff off of both recipes and make Emeril’s beef mixture, but serve it over rice, and serve the plantains on the side.Â  Here’s what I started with (cribbed from Emeril’s recipe, sorta):

Tags: bell peppers, Cuban, ground beef, olives, onion, Pinon, plantains, raisins, rice, success!, tomatoes

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Scrambled eggs with yellow peppers, green onion and cheese • 01.06.10 I’ve been holding off on going to the store this week, because I had a bunch of produce in the drawer on the verge of giving me the finger and dissolving into goo before I could come up with a clever use for it.Â Â Â  Clever meaning something novel enough that The Boy would willingly eat it, but still sticking to our ground rules about no tricky, veggie-hiding muffins or whatever.Â  Besides, he doesn’t like muffins either.Â  Oh yes, you all envy me now, don’t you?

He also won’t eat most common dipping condiments, like catsup, ranch dressing, salsa, most cheese sauces.Â  He likes things plain.Â  And beige.Â  He does like scrambled eggs with melted cheese, so I figured we’d pull out some complementary vegetables and see what happened if I mixed them all together.
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