Plantain and Root Vegetables

plantain chips

BBQ-Flavoured Baked Plantain Chips

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Plantain chips are a popular snack in Ghana and other African countries. I also see more food stores in Canada (at least in Ontario) selling plantain chips, which I think is great. However, I still like to make my own plantain chips so I can make them baked instead of […]

plantain bread

Brown Butter and Cardamom Plantain Bread

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This recipe was inspired by Christopher Kimball’s Brown Butter-Cardamom Banana Bread. I saw this recipe in Kimball’s Milk Street magazine about a year ago and was meaning to try the recipe as is, but never got around to it. Recently, I had some over-ripe plantains lying around so I thought […]

leek and potato soup

Leek and Potato Soup

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Leek and potato soup is one of my go-to quick and easy, one-pot meals; this dish has pretty much gotten me through graduate school. On weeks that I’m really busy and don’t have a lot of time to cook, I make a big batch of it, freeze it in portions […]

yele kakro

Yele Kakro (Ghanaian Yam Balls)

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I was talking to my mother not so long ago and she said that she had some Ghanaian yams (also called white yams) that she was saving for me. I of course rushed over to her house because I’d literally been searching African grocery stores looking for these yams and […]