I featured Cary mom Judit Beres, owner of Neomega Nutritionals, a food company that specializes in specialty cooking oils, last week. She shares this recipe for one of her daughter's favorite dinners, ...

Aborrajados is a traditional heavenly Colombian side dish. In this recipe, we made some minor but significant changes. Instead of a double fried plantain, it went from fryer to oven and we replaced ...

When I was a kid, my only exposure to plantains came when my dad thinly sliced and fried up a batch of green ones to make homemade plantain chips. They were rough-hewn: mostly crisp but still a little ...

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will show you how to eat plantains. This easy baked plantain recipe is one way ...

When Hernan Cortes first landed in Mexico in 1519, he brought with him an African slave he’d bought in Cuba. Thousands more would follow in the coming centuries, forever changing the face, the rhythms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “If you’re anything like me and have so many plantains around that a good portion of them get too ripe too soon,” Velez writes, ...

A bubbling pot of chicken stew with potatoes is a hearty, comforting thing. But substitute sweet plantains for the tubers, and suddenly dinner leaps from familiar and predictable to unexpected and a ...

A let’s-get-a-few-friends-together soiree begs for party snacks with a few surprise ingredients -- bite-size turnovers that have personality and that go down perfectly with either a glass of crisp, ...

There are many ways to feed appetites on Thanksgiving. The basics are the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, string bean casseroles, and gravy. However, if the weather has put a chill ...