You’re daydreaming about whipping up your famous banana bread while grocery shopping. You make a beeline to the produce section and pick up what looks like the thickest, biggest banana you’ve ever ...

If you've ever confused a plantain for a banana, you're not alone. These two long, yellow fruits could be twins -- if one twin were a little bit bigger and starchier than the other. It's easy to ...

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If your local supermarket is anything like mine, there’s a huge display of bananas. And right next to it, there’s a much smaller shelf devoted to plantains. It’s very easy to be in the fruit mind-set, ...

Mallory Arnold was born and raised in Ohio but currently resides and writes from Nashville, Tennessee. She likes running marathons, testing out fun new recipes, and writing about the fascinating, the ...

Banana can be eaten ripe as a fruit or cooked when raw as a plantain. Banana when ripe is best described as sweet, firm and creamy prepackaged in own yellow jackets. The fruit is one of our best ...

Google is not your friend when searching for "authentic" plantain recipes and reliable information. But your retired Spanish-teacher mom and Colombian exchange sister definitely rank at the top of the ...

It’s 2022, and banana bread is so lockdown 2020. But platanos upside down cake? That will never get old. As someone who always keeps yellow platanos, or plantains, handy on my kitchen counter or in my ...