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Yuca bread, sweet, savory, doughy treat

September 11, 2011 by Tropical Foodies

Name: Yuca bread
Eaten in: Cuba, Latin America
Foodie: Linda
 

 Guilty! I confess, I did not exactly follow the recipe for this yuca bread and the result I obtained was more like a yuca pie, but it was so delicious that it was worth sharing anyway. Aren’t some of the most amazing discoveries made by accident? … 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bread, Cassava, Cassava (Manioc/Tapioca/Yuca), Yuca

Attieke a la bassamoise or when to let your imagination go wild

September 5, 2011 by Tropical Foodies

 
Name: Attieke à la bassamoise
Eaten in: Côte d’Ivoire
Foodie: Linda
 

One of my favorite foods and one of my favorite places in the world together into one splendid dish! I can’t come up with enough superlatives to describe the cassava couscous salad whose name is derived from that of the former capital of Côte d’Ivoire.  … 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cassava (Manioc/Tapioca/Yuca), Cote d'Ivoire, Salad

Hibiscus flowers, not just a treat for the eyes

August 28, 2011 by Tropical Foodies

Name: Bissap (Hibiscus tea)
Enjoyed in: West Africa, Caribbean
Foodie: Elodie

A slightly frozen glass of bissap, slushy kind, is the perfect drink to have during the hottest months of the year, or after running after a ball for hours under the scorching sun. I always assumed that bissap was made from something called bissap flowers,… 

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bissap, drink, Hibiscus, Sorrel

Plantain bread… a strech for West Africans, staple for Puerto Ricans.

August 21, 2011 by Tropical Foodies

Name:  Plantain Bread
Foodie: Linda
Eaten in: Puerto Rico

I was quite suspicious when I first tried this recipe,  we make many different dishes with plantains in Côte d’Ivoire, but plantain bread isn’t one of them.  What could it possibly taste like? Regular banana bread? Or worse,  a weird cake-shaped dish with bits of plantains in it? Well,… 

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Filed Under: Banana, Plantain Tagged With: Banana, Plantain, Puerto Rico

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