Do you have a heart?
By solxee
@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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@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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@mildredtabitha (16147)
• 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
@mildredtabitha new things we learn here at myLot
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@mildredtabitha (16147)
• 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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@snowy22315 (182777)
• United States
18 Feb 22
That sounds like fun. I never heard of a banana heart.
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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
@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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@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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@ExplorewtMe (6332)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Feb 22
Sometimes I miss setup like this. Enjoy your day.
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@RebeccasFarm (90571)
• Arvada, Colorado
18 Feb 22
I have not. I want to live in that place.
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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!