FRIDAY FOOD THING
My body seems to know better than I do when I need a particular food item added to my diet. For the past couple of weeks I’ve had inexorable cravings for raw baby carrots and — in particular — bananas.
So, banana shopping I did go…
While driving the 10 some-odd miles to the store, I remembered how I used to perform the same kind of blitzkrieg-shopping-trips — night or day — whenever I got down to only two cigarettes left in my pack. Thankfully, I quit smoking many years ago.
Not so with eating bananas.
Turns out my local grocery store had sold out of bananas. Not a banana in sight. Must have been a moon cycle or something: there were hundreds of us out there running around like packs of banana-craving werewolves. Instead of colorful bunches of yellow bananas, there were, instead, tiny clusters of red bananas in the fruit bins, imported from Ecuador. In keeping within the spirit of my ongoing attempt to buy something new every time I go grocery shopping, I could not pass up the “Ecuadorian Red Bananas“. Feeling more adventurous than usual, I also grabbed a single Ecuadorian “plantain“, whatever that was.
When I got home I noticed that both the Ecuadorian Plantain and the Ecuadorian Red Bananas were alarmingly hard, so I emailed Rich: “Are Ecuadorian Plantains supposed to be HARD?”
“Yes,” he replied. “They are usually cooked.” To illustrate, he included a link to a fried plantains recipe, where I soon discovered a somewhat unusual recipe for “Amarillos a la Moda – Flaming Plantains à la Mode“.
All I really wanted were some bananas. But that’s okay. For me, anything dessert à la flambeau would require a fire extinguisher.
“Yes. I have no flaming bananas.” And because I forgot them, I also have no carrots.
Tim,
Thanks!!! Before even finishing reading your post, I had to make and consume a banana/almond butter/ honey sandwich on a cinnamon raisin Bagel Thin.
Man, that was good!!!
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Believe it or don’t, here in Wisconsin, the Kwik-Trip gas stations/convenience stores ALWAYS have bananas, and ALWAYS have the lowest prices in town. Who’d a thunk it?
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