After Papaya & Papaya once more from the backyard, it is now the turn of the Banana or more correctly Plantain. Remember the banana leaf I had placed the Papayas on – well that tree (actually they say it is a Pseudostem) flowered. Yesterday, I plucked off the flower, cooked a curry – and forgot to take photos.
Today I cut off the tree to get at the plantain shoot inside the stem. We madrasis make excellent curry – either fried or with gravy – with it. The stem was big, at about 20 feet and took me an hour to cut down and peel out. The yield was 12 feet of the shoot. Here is the photo -
Each red line (drawn by me in Paint.Net) marks one foot as is my broken machete. Note the uneven spacing between them – that’s the perspective distortion; the photo was taken from the image’s right (your left) – the next picture which also shows the cut opened stem in the background explains the distortion.
The latest craze in Chennai that is Madras is plantain shoot juice.
:-(
It has taken over from the ‘Green Grass Juice’ craze. The Green grass used is actually Cynodon Dactylon, Hindi Dhub or Haryali, Sanskrit Dhurva Patram, Tamil Arugampul and more commonly called as Bahama or Bermuda Grass - yeah, the same grass which created such a problem at Feroz Shah Kotla fiasco cricket match.
Today I cut off the tree to get at the plantain shoot inside the stem. We madrasis make excellent curry – either fried or with gravy – with it. The stem was big, at about 20 feet and took me an hour to cut down and peel out. The yield was 12 feet of the shoot. Here is the photo -
Each red line (drawn by me in Paint.Net) marks one foot as is my broken machete. Note the uneven spacing between them – that’s the perspective distortion; the photo was taken from the image’s right (your left) – the next picture which also shows the cut opened stem in the background explains the distortion.
The latest craze in Chennai that is Madras is plantain shoot juice.
:-(
It has taken over from the ‘Green Grass Juice’ craze. The Green grass used is actually Cynodon Dactylon, Hindi Dhub or Haryali, Sanskrit Dhurva Patram, Tamil Arugampul and more commonly called as Bahama or Bermuda Grass - yeah, the same grass which created such a problem at Feroz Shah Kotla fiasco cricket match.
Each red line (drawn by me in Paint.Net) marks one foot as is my broken machete. Note the uneven spacing between them – that’s the perspective distortion; the photo was taken from the image’s right (your left) – the next picture which also shows the cut opened stem in the background explains the distortion.
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