Do you have a heart?

@sol_cee (38219)
Philippines
February 17, 2022 4:28pm CST
Last weekend, I and my family went to my mother’s hometown. I’ve never seen rice fields, cornfields, sugarcanes, coconuts and banana trees that many. And most importantly, I’ve never seen my mother that alive. She was in her best element standing, walking, touring us right where she grew up and I promised her we would come back soon. She harvested four banana hearts and made banana heart salad for lunch, with all the ingredients she got in the backyard. It was delicious! Have you ever tried any ‘unique’ salad recipe?
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Your mother must be a big haciendera. Her landholding is as far as the eyes can see? Time for you to do agri-blogging :)
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
‘Lahat ng natatanaw mo hindi akin’ ( I can just take the video and be the videographer, not the one in the video )
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@sol_cee Hahaha!
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@sunrisefan maybe you don’t eat this?
@DaddyEvil (138024)
• United States
18 Feb 22
I'm glad you all enjoyed yourselves. And no, I've neve had something like that. I'd love to try it, though.
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@DaddyEvil (138024)
• United States
18 Feb 22
@sol_cee Why? Did she put fish and rice into it?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@DaddyEvil not into it but there was fried fish and hot steaming rice on a separate dish
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Really? Not afraid to try it?
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@LadyDuck (472258)
• Switzerland
18 Feb 22
This sounds good, I use hearts of palm to make salads.
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@LadyDuck (472258)
• Switzerland
19 Feb 22
@sol_cee hearts of palms with shrimps, lettuce and corn kernels is a good salad.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
20 Feb 22
@LadyDuck it sounds so refreshing a salad
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
That’s also yummy
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@askme123 (6226)
18 Feb 22
banana heart.Is that the banana itself??
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@askme123 (6226)
19 Feb 22
@sol_cee Yes we do.But we just say bananas not banana heart
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Yes. Do you have this in your country?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
19 Feb 22
@askme123 how about the fruit? How do you call it?
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• Nairobi, Kenya
19 Feb 22
What??? You mean banana heart can be eaten? We have a small banana plantation in my rural home but we only eat the bananas. We have never eaten the purple piece I see in your photo. (I think that's what you call a heart)
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
19 Feb 22
YEs, that's the heart. So you just throw them away? Such a waste huhuhu
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
19 Feb 22
@mildredtabitha new things we learn here at myLot
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• Nairobi, Kenya
19 Feb 22
@sol_cee I have seen how it's prepared. I found out that it can be eaten raw. Does it need salt to taste good?
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@sinari (4997)
• Indonesia
18 Feb 22
Wow, that's delicious. You and your mother can pick banana heart flowers directly. I once ate vegetables made from banana heart. But I've never eaten a banana heart salad.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
The banana heart is boiled first. Fresh coconut milk is added to it. And chopped onions, ginger and other spices
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@sinari funny but my mother called it a salad
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@sinari (4997)
• Indonesia
18 Feb 22
@sol_cee Oh the way you cook it like that. We also cook banana heart in the same way as your recipe. But the name is not a salad, but a banana heart vegetable. We call it a vegetable, not a salad.
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@snowy22315 (182777)
• United States
18 Feb 22
That sounds like fun. I never heard of a banana heart.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
They’re sold in the market too
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Feb 22
When I was 12 yrs old, many many yrs. ago, we visited my step dads brothers family and they was so poor, his wife made a good salad out of what we usually had considered to be a weed that grows leaves against the ground. Something we usually picked from our gardens and lawns and threw away. It was surprisingly good. When you say the heart do you mean the peels or the leaves around the banana ?
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Feb 22
@sol_cee Have never tried any part but the inside. I never did. In fact I wondered why we buy greens when they are free all over the ground in Ohio and Kentucky and most other states during the summer months that is. It would be nice to try that salad you had. Was it really good?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
The heart is the reddish purplish stuff in the photo above. Have you tried it? Poverty can always make us creative. Maybe you never looked at that weed the same way again..
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@bunnybon7 my mother made it so it was the best I dunno how to make one though..
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@kaylachan (72456)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Feb 22
No. But, then I'm not a vegie girl. So, you probably wouldn't catch me eating stuff like that willingly.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
17 Feb 22
Lol to willingly. Mu husband always forces my kids to eat veggies
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@kaylachan (72456)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Feb 22
@sol_cee I do eat them occassionally, usually from a can or in some kind of meal, I just don't eat salads.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@kaylachan I like some salads, not all
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
20 Feb 22
So pleased that you and your family enjoyed yourself. I've not tried anything like banana hearts.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
20 Feb 22
It’s too pretty to eat though lollll
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
18 Feb 22
That’s wonderful your mother could visit her old home. Nice that she enjoyed it so much.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@RubyHawk yes she was smiling all the time
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Yes, she’s like another person loll
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
18 Feb 22
@sol_cee Good for her.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
17 Feb 22
What a nice outing for all of you. Sounds very good.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
17 Feb 22
It was something I want to do again
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
17 Feb 22
@sol_cee I would as well.
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@ExplorewtMe (6332)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Feb 22
Sometimes I miss setup like this. Enjoy your day.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Why? Are you in the city now?
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• Nairobi, Kenya
19 Feb 22
@sol_cee yes, I am
@YUSRIL10 (197)
• Indonesia
18 Feb 22
In my country banana heart is made into a side dish
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
Here (I mean in my family) we don’t have side dish. It’s just rice and viand (in this case rice and banana heart salad)
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
@YUSRIL10 (197)
• Indonesia
18 Feb 22
@RebeccasFarm (90571)
• Arvada, Colorado
18 Feb 22
I have not. I want to live in that place.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
But no winter here.
@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
17 Feb 22
It seems like you had a wonderful visit. Your mother is fortunate to have such an agricultural treasure so close.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
17 Feb 22
It was three hours by car but because of the bad road it felt longer but for thy mother, no problemo
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@moffittjc (121791)
• Gainesville, Florida
20 Feb 22
I've never even heard of banana hearts, let alone eat one! Does it taste anything like bananas, or does it have a completely different flavor? Glad you had a good time visiting your mother. She sounds like she has a very youthful spirit!
@DianneN (247184)
• United States
21 Feb 22
Sounds delicious! Never heard of it. I enjoy lobster salad.
@JudyEv (342489)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Feb 22
That does sound very delicious. I'm sure your mother had a wonderful day.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
18 Feb 22
She was not the grumpy mom in the city loll
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@Kandae11 (55195)
17 Feb 22
That was a nice visit l am sure. How often do you go there?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
17 Feb 22
Me? It was my first time ever
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