Sentences with phrase «like breadfruit»

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In general, they treated as vegetables in the kitchen much like fellow tropical produces such as potatoes, taro, breadfruit, yam, sweet potatoes, etc..

Unusual vegetables include breadfruits, strange - looking root crops like dasheen and taro, a wide variety of pumpkins, christophene (chayote), and the leaves of the dasheen, which resemble spinach and are used in the popular Caribbean soup, callaloo.

Generously sharing a wealth of knowledge about island lore and history, Mme. Fournier also enumerated the accompanying side dishes that complete such a meal, and they are really starch - heavy: taro, manioc (often as a pan-baked sweet cake), several types of banana which are customarily wrapped in leafy bundles like some sort of tropical tamale, the islander's omnipresent staple — breadfruit, potato, umara (sweet potato), plus an island chestnut which, along with the manioc, breadfruit and some of the bananas, can be prepared by grating and mixing with sugar, milk and coconut milk into both cakes and puddings.

The best part about summer travel, however, is that wonderful fruits and vegetables like mangoes, avocados and breadfruit are all readily available.