[Leica] Nathan's PAD 24/1/2021: Puerto Rican food

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Quite a few Indian dishes, mainly from the south and west of the country,
also call for steaming wrapped up in a banana leaf.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:57 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:

> I usually do the cooking duties in our house. But once in a while, my wife
> gets the craving for food from her native Puerto Rico and takes over the
> kitchen for the day?those dishes are very labour-intensive. So it was this
> weekend. She decided to make pasteles, a dish made of ground root
> vegetables with a core of meat and chickpeas, wrapped in banana leaf.
> Becuase this kind of food is also eaten in South American countries such as
> Colombia and Venezuela, and we have sizeable populations from those
> countries around here, my wife can find the ingredients in local
> supermarkets. Four images.
>
> Here she is, assembling the pasteles:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rpH3W88/A
>
> Banana leaf detail:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7mMt9mp/A
>
> Once everything is assembled, the pasteles are boiled:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-8g5z4Lv/A
>
> And then the deliciousness is unwrapped and devoured:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-7RGhJVR/A
>
> Bon app?tit!
>
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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