Introducing tropical food and tropical recipes to the world!
What to do when a few pounds of frozen cassava stare at you every time you open your freezer? Make some cookies out of them! The most amazing thing about the world being so rich and diverse (and about the internet) is that if you want to try a recipe you’ve never made before, you will find a blueprint for it. I checked out tropicalchefs.com,…
This is a story of a failed recipe that turned out delicious in the end! I was supposed to make mini-pies, but ended up with some delicious patties instead. It all happened in the last step before baking….
I can go without wheat for days when eating dishes from the tropics, unintentionally so. Can you imagine having a gluten-free diet without even trying? I used to eat those little cassava balls growing up. They were a street snack served with fresh coconut…
Name: Cassava cake
Eaten in: Philippines
Category: Traditional
I grew up eating cassava, mostly mixed with plantains to make “foutou,” a traditional dish from Ivory Coast, but also as a crunchy fried snack served with dried chopped coconut. So needless to say, I was burning with curiosity when I set out to make this cassava cake from the Philippines. I was not entirely faithful to the recipe and used shredded cassava…
