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lsandersonYesterday for a tapas party, I chased all over the city looking for octopus and finally found some. I also wanted to make a banana flower salad, which Thong does not much like. I bought one banana flower at Shuang Hur and Thong started shaving it with a peeler here, and then handed the job off to me. I tried the slicer on the KA mixer, but it was not an ideal solution. (The shredding disk worked even worse.)
Dai-Nam - in the Asian ghetto between 27th and 26th street sells it sliced. You have to ask at the back meat counter. A grandmother squeezed two limes in a bucket of water, and using what looked like a giant peeler, sliced the flower and removed the embryo banana. She then collected it and placed it in a bag and squeezed the water out. They got quite a charge out of it.
Dai-Nam Grocery Store
2635 Nicollet Av
Minneapolis, MN 55408 - 1629
(612) 872-1240
The salad was quite fine, although some people wuz putting stinky fish sauce on it. (Thong also does not like fish sauce.) All in all, the banana flowers were quite nice. Very much like a slaw, as Mel pointed out. Oddly enough, the 1/4 or so of it that was left over seems to have vanished from the fridge.
Dai-Nam - in the Asian ghetto between 27th and 26th street sells it sliced. You have to ask at the back meat counter. A grandmother squeezed two limes in a bucket of water, and using what looked like a giant peeler, sliced the flower and removed the embryo banana. She then collected it and placed it in a bag and squeezed the water out. They got quite a charge out of it.
Dai-Nam Grocery Store
2635 Nicollet Av
Minneapolis, MN 55408 - 1629
(612) 872-1240
The salad was quite fine, although some people wuz putting stinky fish sauce on it. (Thong also does not like fish sauce.) All in all, the banana flowers were quite nice. Very much like a slaw, as Mel pointed out. Oddly enough, the 1/4 or so of it that was left over seems to have vanished from the fridge.
