New Blogging Event Series...Taste of the Tropics-Chapter 1...Plantain

I am excited to be starting a new Blogging Event Series.  There are many different Blogging Events out there and I wanted to try to come out with something unique, but that also appealed to my own interests.  I LOVE Simply.Food's Flavours of...series as this appeals to my sense of global cuisine (by the way, I will be hosting this in August so start getting your Morroccan recipes ready).

With my Caribbean background, I love tropical food and then I thought what exactly determines a country to be classified as Tropical because so many countries are called this.  With some research, I learned that it is those countries that lie between the Tropic of Cancer & the Tropic of Capricorn.  This is a lot of countries, so I thought this is great because this event can go on.until infinity....with variety...introducing Taste of the Tropics

Every month a new theme will be determined...either a common ingredient from these tropical countries or the country itself can be the theme.  I will be looking for guest hosts for future months, so please email me at islandpalate@gmail.com if you would like to be the host with the following information:

Name:

Blog Name:

Blog Address:

Month of Hosting:

Desired Theme:


See available months here.

Taste of the Tropics - Chapter 1's (June, 2012) theme will be one of my favorite vegetables - PLANTAIN

My love of plantain is evident in some of my previously published recipes like Kelewele, Tatale, Plantain Paneer Kebab & Banane Peze.  It is so versatile; can be used in anything from appetizers to desserts and it is also very nutritious, rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C and potassium. It is naturally gluten free; a healthy alternative for those with gluten allergies.

Rules for the Event:

1 - Post any recipe that uses either green or yellow plantain.  Plantain flour can also be used.  Archived recipes may be used if they are reposted with the logo & the linkback.

2 - Recipe should be posted between June 1st and June 30th, 2012.  Recipes can be vegetarian or non-veg.  Origin of recipe should be from the cuisine of one of the countries listed below.

2 - The post must be linked back to this announcement page and usage of the logo is mandatory.

3 - After your recipe is posted, add it by using the linky tool below.

NORTH AMERICA	CENTRAL AMERICA	CARIBBEAN
Mexico	Belize	Anguilla
	Costa Rica	Antigua and Barbuda
SOUTH AMERICA	El Salvador	Aruba
Bolivia	Guatemala	Bahamas
Brazil	Honduras	Barbados
Colombia	Nicaragua	British Virgin Islands
Ecuador	Panama	Cayman Islands
French Guiana		Cuba
Galápagos Islands	INDIA	Dominica
Guyana	SOUTHEAST ASIA	Dominican Republic
Paraguay	Brunei	Grenada
Peru	Burma (Myanmar)	Guadeloupe
Suriname	Cambodia	Haiti
Venezuela	East Timor	Jamaica
Suriname	Indonesia	Martinique
Venezuela	Laos	Montserrat
	Malaysia	Netherlands Antilles
CENTRAL AFRICA	Philippines	Puerto Rico
Angola	Singapore	Saint Barthélemy
Cameroon	Thailand	Saint Kits and Nevis
Central African Republic	Vietnam	Saint Lucia
Chad		Saint Martin (France)
Congo	WEST AFRICA	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)	Benin	Trinidad and Tobago
Equatorial Guinea	Burkina Faso	Turks and Cacaos Islands
Gabon	Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	United States Virgin Islands
Sudan	The Gambia
Zambia	Ghana
EAST AFRICA	Guinea
Burundi	Guinea-Bissau
Comoros	Liberia
Djibouti	Mali
Eritrea	Mauritania
Ethiopia	Niger
Kenya	Nigeria
Madagascar	Saint Helena
Malawi	São tomé and Principe
Mauritius	Senegal
Mayotte	Sierra Leone
Mozambique	Togo
Reunion
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
Tanzania
Uganda

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