#tostones

Tostones 🇵🇷

Welcome to my first post! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything online after ditching my Instagram last year. I started seriously cooking a little over 10 years ago after moving into my own place as a 40-something year old. My early attempts at it stemmed from the necessity to not spend money every night. It wasn’t something I particularly enjoyed doing. Besides all the cleaning up after, I was annoyed by how long it took to make anything that I could put away in a few minutes.

In time however, with help from Youtube and numerous failed attempts, I learned to actually enjoy the process of cooking. Now it has become one of my favorite things to do and since I’ve become adept at it, I’ve been attempting to recreate meals from my childhood, particularly those made by both my late mother and grandmother.

With proper respect to the title of this blog, here are some photos from a couple batches of tostones I’ve made over the last couple weeks. Tostones are my favorite salty fried starch next to french fries and are easy to make. Just make sure your oil is hot enough and don’t forget to make a batch of mayoketchup to go alongside them.

A good traditional recipe is here.

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