On 7/13/2015 9:44 AM, sf wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:21:51 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 5:16:46 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>>> On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:39:10 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The fried rice included pastele sausage
>>>
>>> This is the first time I've heard of pastele sausage. Is it a brand
>>> name or a type of sausage? Pastele seems to be a Puerto Rican stew
>>> that is made with or without sausage. The post that indicated it
>>> might be Portuguese ended up being a taste test of various brands of
>>> linguiça (which is one of my favorite sausages).
>>>
>>> I also found recipes for pastele sausage. One of them indicated that
>>> "banana" is actually plantain. Is that true?
>>> http://www.ilovehawaiianfoodrecipes....ipes/pasteles/
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> sf
>>
>> The pastele is a Puerto Rican tamale except the masa is replaced with grated green plantain and it's wrapped in a banana leaf instead of corn husks. The pastele sausage is made by a local sausage company and sorta copies the taste of a pastele in a sausage. It gets worse - we also have a pastele stew that is sorta supposed to taste like a pastele but I can't say if they make that in Puerto Rico.
>>
>> http://tastyislandhawaii.com/2007/07...rizo-sausages/
>
> Thanks, I saw that before I posted. Your description is a lot better
> than any I found, thanks.
>
>

Oddly enough, people sell pastele on the side of the road here. It's a
pretty random thing that happens on this rock.