Plátanos y Tostones! (Wait, what? Plantains and plantains?)

[Eve]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Yeah, my mom still says that. I like them ok, and will eat them if served to me, but won't go out of my way to make them unless it's sweet potato fries.

Holy crap, sweet potato fries are delicious. Now I want some.

The Red Parrot in Newport has THE BEST ONES EVAR

TITCM. Must go back soooon!

[Suu]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Yeah, my mom still says that. I like them ok, and will eat them if served to me, but won't go out of my way to make them unless it's sweet potato fries.

Holy crap, sweet potato fries are delicious. Now I want some.

The Red Parrot in Newport has THE BEST ONES EVAR

TITCM. Must go back soooon!

Bickfords has some too, but not NEARLY as good as the Red Parrot. Seriously, there is nothing better than going to the Red Parrot in the dead of January when it's like 20 degrees outside and sipping a pina colada and eating sweet potato fries. That place fucking rocks.

[trippinprincezz13]

Sweet Potato fries and homemade ketchup at Peddler's Daughter FTW. Relatively small Irish pub with a small menu, but everything on it (at least so far that I've had) is delicious. Their ketchup and tartar sauce is homemade and completely awesome. I need to go again soon  , if only for the sweet potato fries

Oh wow, looks like they've expanded their menu quite a bit. Haven't been there since March. I think we went there for St. Patricks Day. Not to eat, but we did have dinner there shortly before that, maybe Feb.  Now I really wanna go back

http://www.thepeddlersdaughter.com/finemeals.php?l=h

[Darth Cupcake]

Haverhill?! I am sad.

[trippinprincezz13]

It's only a short walk from the train station (about 5 min)!!

There's also one in Nashua apparently, but that doesn't help much.

[Suu]

TOSTONES!



Peel, chop, and fry. (Note how the cut plantain is more chunky this time.)






After they're fried, smash with the special smasher. (Mr. Suu says that if you don't have a smasher use two plates.)







Fry again.



Lightly salt (and pepper, I threw some black pepper on mine) and enjoy!

[Triple Zero]

holy shit that last pic looks absolutely delicious! also the .. fried cheese sandwiches? with red onion? or egg? and what are the brown thingies?

i dont think i've ever seen plantains in the supermarkets here, there are sometimes bananas called "baking bananas", but they're not green, actually more brown/spotted than "regular" bananas and larger, like twice as thick.

would it work with regular bananas that are still green perhaps? maybe it's not the same, but now i really feel like frying bananas.

and my opinion about sweet potatoes is .. meh. theyre considered "exotic food" here, which means i have no idea how to properly prepare them. if i boil or fry them like regular potatoes, they turn out like regular potatoes but sweeter. which is wrong. potatoes shouldnt be sweet, so these "sweet potatoes" are going to have to be made into something non-potatoesque, because the sweet doesn't seem to want to go, right?

and meat pies... well i had haggis pie in Edinburgh last August, and I liked it. I figure if I like haggies pie, I can like all meat pies, right?

[Suu]

The grilled cheese has tomato slices on it. 

And no, regular bananas are still too full of sugar and will caramelize like the yellow plantains rather than fry evenly for the tostones.

And a baking banana would be a plantain, you just get the yellow ripe ones instead of the green starchy kind.

[Triple Zero]

hey yeah, looking this up on the dutch wikipedia, i see that "banana crisps" are made of plantains and not bananas as well! they're delicious and crunchy

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I had some fried plantains today and I liked em.
Maybe the ones I've had before were crap, or my taste has changed.