These easy-to-make exotic-flavored meatballs work equally well atop rice for a main dish or as hors d’oeuvres—with optional green curry or Asian dipping sauce.
I, admittedly, do not have a green thumb. But I have always wanted a garden.My parents had a huge garden when I was younger, and I have such fond memories of it...searching for the green beans amidst the stalks and snapping them in front of the tv, sneaking a raw one into my mouth every few…
While not nearly as sweet as bananas, plantains do have a sweet flavor. In this soup we keep that sweetness at bay by using firm plantains with green skins rather than riper brown-skinned ones--the sugars will have not yet developed, so the fruit will add starchy body to the soup without too much sweetness.
