Sopa de mondongo eaten with white rice. Other side dishes include salads and sweet plantains. In the countryside when a roof is built on a new house, the future owners together with their friends and family and construction workers organize a meal known as "mondongada" where mondongo is the main course. A variant known as "mondongo a la culona" from the province of Colon also includes pig knuckles and feet and replaces chickpeas with white beans. In Puerto Rico it is cooked with chickpeas, potato, squash/pumpkin, malanga, vegetables, fresh herbs such as cilantro (coriander), culantro, thyme and parsley. Salted pork feet and tail
Henry N. Parsley Jr. Henry N. Parsley Jr. Henry Nutt Parsley, junior (born October 29, 1948) is the retired tenth Bishop of Alabama, and the former Provisional Bishop of the Diocese of Easton. The Diocese of Easton seat is at Trinity Cathedral (Easton, Maryland) and was at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama. Parsley is also a former Chancellor of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He now resides in Wilmington, North Carolina and attends St. James Parish in Wilmington. In January 2006, Parsley was nominated for Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and came in second in balloting