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[trinket 30]

You can't get away with drooling and not letting us know what it is - I am guessing it's not that funny coffee the 'libruls' drink

It is banana flower, it's kind of pain in the a$$ to make this recipe, mainly the sorting out the small flowers and you have clean a part of those flowers out or else the whole recipe becomes bitter in taste.

end product with coconut flakes and some whole spices

Oh and we don't pronounce it as "MOKA" as in coffee........more like "MO-CHA-CHA" kind chuntney type

[Peikko 1,575]

Wow, amazing and what do you use it for? Is it made into a condiment or added like a herb or spice?

[trinket 30]

More like a side dish to go with rice, can be used as condiment if you are having your rice with daal and have mocha like that.

[Peikko 1,575]

Sounds interesting. Is it an acquired taste though? Thanks for the explanations by the way

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Is it an acquired taste though?

My wife and mother both can't stand it.

[trinket 30]

Here is a video, you can see it is time consuming to clean the whole stuff. It is a bit sweet in taste, it doesn't have any banana flavour (people who don't know might assume that), it is juicy and coconut and whole spices (bay leaf, cardamoms and one cinnamon stick) and I use a bit of ginger sometimes.

This video shows using onion, but I don't use onion........I don't like using onion with everything.

I was pretty happy once I saw banana flower at the local chinese shop out here

[Ladylethal 12]

Hmmmm, you guys talking about yerba mate, chimarrão ... very common in the south of Brazil, and also common where my family has a farm, in the north, Rondonia.

I like it, but I like the regular mate tea better, the one where the herb is roasted. It gives a very different taste to the tea, and it's consumed all over Brazil. And it's different as it's mostly consumed cold.

You can by Matte in grain, in tea bags, already brewed in cups, bottles, with lemon, etc.

Damn I miss mate now.

[Amby 490]

I'm not a big tea drinker, but isn't mate expensive here? Or at least more expensive than "regular" tea?

[Ladylethal 12]

I've yet to see mate here (in PR), of either variety, but in Brazil it's very affordable.

[Amby 490]

I just did a super quick google search and I saw ranges of $7.50-25.50/lb

[Ladylethal 12]

For the green type for the chimarrão, yerba mate beverage with the special straw or the roasted type?

Here's a site that sells the roasted kind (my favorite brand of it, btw). A box like that makes a lot of tea.

http://www.mercadobrazil.com/servlet/the-1...-Tostado/Detail

[cassi9879 20]

My grandparents aren't going to my cousin's graduation. Grandma has a craft show she's going to that weekend. Now Benny says he doesn't want to go to the graduation because he wanted to visit with them. Argh!

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't like earthquakes. It's hard to describe the feeling of helplessness that they generate.

On a happier note, I was watching Apartment 12 when it happened, which is quite a good little film, though I have no idea now why I chose it. The joys of the Netflix queue

[Amby 490]

cleo I bought some seeds for baby zucchini

I don't know what variety of yellow squash the other small stuff I planted is but it looks like the stuff on this photo

[spookyturtle 9,466]

cleo I bought some seeds for baby zucchini

I don't know what variety of yellow squash the other small stuff I planted is but it looks like the stuff on this photo

Never mind the squash, what about the car? Did you drive it yet??