Good Eating Monday: Eat Like a Samoan!
We have an Air Force girl in our Bible study, named Hope, who's originally from American Samoa, which is a Pacific Island. As you might guess from the name, it's an American Territory, like Guam. I invited her to share native Samoan food with our group on Sunday night and she made Samoan Chop Suey ( Sapasui ) and Green Banana in Savory Coconut Sauce (Fa'allifu Fa'i ). She explained that the Green Bananas in Savory Coconut Sauce is a Samoan meal stable---it's their starch, like potatoes. Funny thing, these hot bananas in coconut milk actually tasted very similar to potatoes. They weren't sweet at all and had absolutely no banana flavor. Being green, they were quite firm and not mushy at all. To make it, she baked the bananas in their skins, then sauteed sliced onion, combined it with unsweetened coconut milk, added salt & pepper then poured the hot sauce over the hot bananas. (photo is the actual dish she made) It was good, but my taste buds ...