Yeah, that other video is in Tag-lish again and uses canned banana blossoms.

This video shows cooking the fresh banana blossom..sorry the running instructions is in Tag-lish..but pretty much you can follow the way she strips the blossom and chops it down then cooking it. She has added shrimp paste, broth cube, crushed garlic and fish flakes and a dash of salt and sugar too which I saw at the end. Pretty much saute, simmer, allow for some reduction and serve while hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yes it is a very common delicacy in Southeast Asia.

LOL at Tag-lish, I'm familiar with Spang-lish and May-ol (half Maya half español).

This recipe is in english, but no video, and she uses shrimp:
https://luckymom2009.wordpress...

extranjera said:LOL at Tag-lish, I'm familiar with Spang-lish and May-ol (half Maya half español).

Hahaha! We sometimes call it Enga-log too...English-Tagalog...Tag-lish- Tagalog-English...our fall back is English. Since there are about 100+ dialects there. Tagalog is where our Filipino language is more patterned with.

OK, that last recipe is the one I'm going to try. She had me with the shrimp, ginger and chiles. I need to do it soon before my banana bloom gets too big and tough. The shrimp man is usually in my neighborhood early in the morning so I will try and get some good shrimp tomorrow.

Just a side note, more coconut milk recipe..you can also cook squash with coconut milk and shrimp, if you want to try it as well.

extranjera said:OK, that last recipe is the one I'm going to try. She had me with the shrimp, ginger and chiles. I need to do it soon before my banana bloom gets too big and tough. The shrimp man is usually in my neighborhood early in the morning so I will try and get some good shrimp tomorrow.

In the recipe article, the writer mentioned "dilis"..that refers to dried anchovies. So another variation you can use.

No anchovies for me. I have fed them to my cats though, along with sardines and mussels. They don't much like the mussels. I read somewhere that those oily fish are good for the cats on occasion and since I make their food mostly from chicken, I give them canned fish occasionally.

I think I have lost my moment with this banana bloom. I was really busy this weekend and couldn't get to it and today I see that it has started opening already with some formed fruit. That's quick but may be because of the extreme heat we are having. I've kept the recipes and will try it on the next bloom when it is younger.

I did get the shrimp so I'm going to BBQ it with some pesto tonight, luckily I threw it in the freezer when I bought it. Pesto shrimp and coconut rice for dinner. yum

Yummm! Pesto and shrimp sounds so delish!!!

Kind of off topic but yes, it was really good. I try and cook as much as I can outside in this heat. So, grill the shrimp on the BBQ and plug the rice cooker in on the terrace, keeps the kitchen cool. Coconut rice is really good, just soak rice in water for 20 min, drain and cook it in coconut milk. I throw a couple of cardamom pods in too as I have lots. The basil I grow on the roof most of the year and make pesto to freeze as ice cubes so I always have some available. Easy and all cooked outside, summer food.

and just to keep it sort of tropical related... my heliconia in bloom.

Love heliconia!!!

I love rice too..but trying to switch more to brown rice...sugar issues.

Had to post this for @extranjera. I make this deeeeelicious banana pudding recipe once a year. I could eat it every day but I don't and you'll see why. I used sweetened hand-whipped cream and it really makes the difference! Take the time to do it.

http://www.pauladeen.com/not-y...

Jonna! I found these cute little bananas at our local Filipino store here..so happy to have found them! Don't know if you have it there...maybe you do..in the Filipino language we call this size of bananas as princesa (princess). They are sweeter and easier to eat since they are smaller. I photographed a hand to compare the size to a regular banana and bought some too..yummy!

I looked further what the label on the banana means..so apparently grown by Turbana Corp in Colombia..they call these size of bananas as manzano.
Ooops! Some correction...hahah, in my excitement I called it princesa..but we actually call them Senoritas in Filipino.

In Trinidad those little bananas were referred to as 'figs'. And yes they are super sweet and delicious.

Jonna I love that you have a 'shrimp man' - took me right back to my childhood when we had the milkman, the vegetable man and the bread man come through the street with their carts.

Lots to answer. Tarev, those small bananas are called 'manzanas' here as well, and they do have a slightly apple flavor. There are other small bananas sold here, I don't know all the different names though. Generally I refer to them as Manzanas as well and they know what I mean. The small red ones are the sweetest, the really tiny yellow ones have denser seeds and are really sweet but so small that they are almost not worth it.

Cheryl, thank you for that recipe. I am going to make it when this bunch is ripe. I love banana pudding, my mother used to make it and I never got the recipe.

Hetty, it is convenient to have everything show up at the door. There are still milkmen here, he has a white with black cow spots motor tricycle and he plays a recording of a cow mooing as he drives around the neighborhoods. I now prefer the boxed milk so I rarely get anything from him although the yogurt is pretty good. Of course, we can also order whatever we want from the supermarket online and they will deliver. I kind of like going to the super so I rarely do it but it is convenient and a kind of cross between the old fashioned service society that this is and the new internet one. If I am home all day I can spend a lot of it just answering the door and seeing what someone has to sell. Or, I could bring a chair to the sidewalk at dusk and sit and talk to the neighborhood ladies and they will tell me what is new or different that is being offered.

The one I really like is the laundry guy who picks up stuff that I want ironed and delivers it back a few days later. Although I have 2 different ladies who clean for me on different days, neither of them wants to iron. I love ironed sheets so when I found this guy I started giving him the sheets along with the other ironing, it's really cheap and it is such a luxury. I am really spoiled from living here. It has been almost 9 years that I haven't pumped my own gas, cleaned my windshield, bagged my own groceries or loaded them into my car and a million other small tasks that I've forgotten. I am afraid I'd be more than a little helpless and out of my element if I ever returned to the north.

I wish the Banana Man would come to our door! DH eats them daily but we can only keep 5-6 before they start to go bad. That means having to keep going to the store if only for bananas, but you know that's not going to happen! Bananas make me spend more money!!