RE: [CH] taro? now chayote

Harold James (hjames@mdspice.com)
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:09:11 -0400 

One way that we cooked them in Louisiana is by boiling them until 
soft not mushy. (Fork tender) scoop out insides to leave an outer 
shell. Mash the insides with a fork not a potato masher or mixer;
you want it to be a little lumpy add salt and pepper (to taste) 
1-tsp garlic powder and any amount of your favorite hot sauce (optional),
Mix well add shrimp and place back into outer shell bake at 350 
for ½ hour place a tab of butter on top cook another 10 minutes. 
Take out of oven allow to cool this is a basic way of cooking Marlinton’s 
in Louisiana there are other ways and other ingredients.

There are a number of ways that I have cooked them. Stuffed with 
Hamburger, cheese, sausage, Baked with crab and shrimp, fried in 
a heavy cream sauce with crawfish tails over angel hair pasta, Ect.


 I use them in a lot of ways most people don’t think of. They have 
a good taste and my mom and grandmother used to say that anyway that 
you can stuff a pepper you can stuff a Marlinton but you know how 
those old southern women are they always have good stuff cooking 
in the kitchen.








At Thursday, 25 April 2002, you wrote:

>Chayote is vegetable used in Lousiana, Mexico, Central and South 
America 
>mostly. It's of the gourd family and looks rather like a pale-green,
lumpy 
>pear. It most closely resembles zucchini in taste and texture (which 
can 
>be used as a substitute). It's also known as a mirliton or christophene 

>and you might find it there named as such. They are delicious but not 
>common.
>
>David "Zeb" Cook
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Emile & Dewi e.steenbrink@worldonline.nl
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:34:56 +0200
>To: CH1200@attbi.com, chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>Subject: [CH] taro?
>
>> In Hawaii they are called "taro," like the page says.  In Puerto 
Rico,
>> and presumably Cuba and other Caribbean locales, they are called
>"malanga."
>
>Yes, my recipe said it is aka red bud taro root. Yummy stuff! If 
my brother
>didn't teach me I would be clueless!!! So what about chayote?!?!?!?! 
:-)
>
>Plants are dying to get outside. My hot wax is already producing 
peppers!!!!
>Weather!!!!
>
>Miss Dewi
>CH#2192
>http://www.chilechick.tmfweb.nl
>
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