6 Million Platanos a day

[Caonabo]

Guess I need to google chitlins.

No platanos in the house this morning. The horror. He had eggs with mashed rulos, talk about yuck. 

Every ethnicity has their own favorite starch. Despite the Italian spaghetti jokes, my father never ate it (or any other Italian food, for that matter). Every, and I mean every, dinner included potatoes. Boiled, baked, fried, but they had to be there. 

Reminds me of a story. Dominican aunt made large lunch, chicken, yuca, salad, etc.; couple of hours later, son asks when she’s making lunch. She exclaimed he already ate it. “Oh NO mami, lunch is rice and beans!!!”  True story. 

Does Señor AlterEgo eat the same style breakfast while you are in the US of A, or does he only have it while you are visiting the RD?

 

[dv8]

I wonder can you make plantano Pasta .

i have seen harina de platano available in dominican stores so potentially it could be used for pasta making. possibly with an addition of semolina because it may be too starchy on it's own to form pasta. but AE could try it and report back, if she feels adventurous. in PP it can be found in la sirena and jumbo (also jose luis) in health food sections.

 

[JasonD]

Guess I need to google chitlins.

 

With a Dominican husband and you must Google Chitlins?

 

[mofongoloco]

Looked it up...chitlins...in Nova Scotia called ''Tripe''...
When we were served Tripe as a child we knew there was no food in the Larder.

Bless you all, who enjoy such cultural foods.

Mangu with Salt fish and onions... no thats a feed ... fish cakes Dominican stile.
Russell

Tripe (cow stomach) is mondongo.  Chitlins/Chitterlings are intestine. In Spanish I believe intestines are called guajira.  

 

[AlterEgo]

With a Dominican husband and you must Google Chitlins?

He has no clue what chitlins are.

 

Tripe (cow stomach) is mondongo.  Chitlins/Chitterlings are intestine. In Spanish I believe intestines are called guajira.  

Sounds very unappetizing. He never heard that word either. Maybe Dominicans don’t eat it??

 

[JasonD]

He has no clue what chitlins are.

 



Sounds very unappetizing. He never heard that word either. Maybe Dominicans don’t eat it??

Dominicans eat it everyday, everywhere and to make it subject related, they eat it with plantains.

You sure you have a Dominican for husband ?

 

[Tarheel]

Dominican salami (aka salty oat/cornmeal in a tube) is the grossest thing on god's green earth.  especially the end of it which is puckered by the plastic wrap and that little metal thing.  omg.  so gross and nasty.  

In the same category as fruitcakes.

 

[Tarheel]

It cannot be grosser that chitlins.

Come on! As long as you wash the pigs intestines well they are delicious.

 

[bigbird]

Tripe (cow stomach) is mondongo.  Chitlins/Chitterlings are intestine. In Spanish I believe intestines are called guajira.  

Dominicans eat it everyday, everywhere and to make it subject related, they eat it with plantains.

You sure you have a Dominican for husband ?

Since chitlins are served with plantains (keeping on topic )........

What does Clara have to say about it?

For those innocently unaware, “mondongo” is a cute name for cow or pig intestines, a supposed delicacy, usually boiled and then served in a tomato sauce on rice. Although in my opinion of little esteem it resembles a smooth mass of rotini-shaped viscera in form, and a worn rubber bicycle tire in texture, it remains a savoury delight to many others. Unfortunately, my own intestines cringe at the thought of processing their own kind. They go tense at the pervasive and instantly recognizable smell of cooking mondongo.

https://www.dominicancooking.com/685-mondongo-stewed-tripe.html

 

[Cdn_Gringo]

If you notice a moto with a big plastic tub on the back scooping out bowls of stuff on the side of the road, I believe that is chitlins and/or some other offal.

Haven't seen them on a menu anywhere, but maybe that's because of where I choose to eat.

 

[AlterEgo]

Dominicans eat it everyday, everywhere and to make it subject related, they eat it with plantains.

You sure you have a Dominican for husband ?

You must know a different class of Dominicans 

 

[JasonD]

You must know a different class of Dominicans 

I am going to use the same link previously used two replies back to which you "liked."

https://www.dominicancooking.com/685-mondongo-stewed-tripe.html

The site is called "Dominican Cooking," but I know a different class of Dominicans?

Elitism has no place on my life.



And BTW, many times its served with tostones which is plantain as per the subject.

 

[La Profe_1]

Since chitlins are served with plantains (keeping on topic )........

What does Clara have to say about it?

For those innocently unaware, “mondongo” is a cute name for cow or pig intestines, a supposed delicacy, usually boiled and then served in a tomato sauce on rice. Although in my opinion of little esteem it resembles a smooth mass of rotini-shaped viscera in form, and a worn rubber bicycle tire in texture, it remains a savoury delight to many others. Unfortunately, my own intestines cringe at the thought of processing their own kind. They go tense at the pervasive and instantly recognizable smell of cooking mondongo.

https://www.dominicancooking.com/685-mondongo-stewed-tripe.html

Having cooked it once for my husband when he was sick, I can testify that tripe is definitely the stomach of a cow or other ruminant, not intestines. (No I am not married to a Dominican).

https://www.thespruce.com/information-about-tripe-2342853

The recipe is subtitled "Tripe Stew" so I think it is fair to assume that stomach lining and not intestines is meant. Unless the person cooking the stew added intestines as well.

 

[JasonD]

Come on! As long as you wash the pigs intestines well they are delicious.

Going by your nick is right on your alley.

 

[Tarheel]

Going by your nick is right on your alley.

Born and raised in Nashville, TN. They have the best pork BBQ on the planet. Now in North Carolina thus the nick.

 

[dv8]

i had to google chitlins too, never heard the word before. and i do like mondongo. i think usually it's made from the stomach because that's what i see sold in supermarkets but i had it in a little coca cola themed comedor in nagua, which is apparently famous for its mondongo and it definitely contained intestines. or, as i called it "pipes". either way i like it.

what really ticks me off tho, is that dominicans always seem to leave platanos in large chunks when tossing it into soups or stews. i want to eat the stuff with a spoon, goddamit.

 

[mobrouser]

What does mondongo smell like while it's being cooked?
My mother talked about eating tripe as a child, but I don't believe she ever attempted to cook it herself.
And neither have I.

 

[JasonD]

i had to google chitlins too, never heard the word before.

In DR you won't of course, in DR Mondongo is the colloquial name for it, Americans Southerners know chitlins very well and Dominicans eat it, stomach or intestines or both.

Wondering what kind of Dominicans are some of you hanging out with that have not knowledge of mondongo?

Platanos are cheap, abundant and easy to cook thus the daily usage.

 

[GringoRubio]

In DR you won't of course, in DR Mondongo is the colloquial name for it, Americans Southerners know chitlins very well and Dominicans eat it, stomach or intestines or both.

Wondering what kind of Dominicans are some of you hanging out with that have not knowledge of mondongo?

Platanos are cheap, abundant and easy to cook thus the daily usage.

Oh lord. I actually have not run into it in the DR, but in Florida, yes. I like different cultures, so of course, politely asked to attend a black baptist church. Sunday with the long long service and singing was uplifting. I was invited to the Thursday congregational dinner. I think protestants usually put on a spaghetti dinner, but Thursday was chitlins. I smell was overpowering. Being a vegetarian, it was something like from the underworld. I politely excused myself and puked before I made it home.

Up to now, I thought mondongo meant soup which I always politely declined. Thanks for the spanish lesson.

 

[cbmitch9]

Of those 6 million, I probably eat 5 a day