When Pork's A Good Thing

Busy Food Network Chef Guy Fieri Prepares Some, With Great Sides, On The Early Show

(CBS) 

Four-Bean Relish

1/3 c Red wine vinegar
4 T Basalmic vinegar
1/4 c EVOO
2 t Black pepper, fresh cracked
1/4 c Scallions, diced
3/4 c Red onions, fine dice
1/4 c Pepadoos (sweet red peppers) or roasted red bell peppers, fine diced
1/2 t Salt, sea
3 T Honey
12 oz White beans, canned drained
12 oz Chic peas, garbanzo beans, canned drained
12 oz Pinto beans, canned and drained
12 oz Black beans, canned and drained

Mix all ingredients together and let set up in refrigeration for at least on hour. Mix thoroughly before service.

Banana Pineapple Lassi

2 teaspoons dry chai spice blend
8 oz vanilla bean yogurt
1 banana, about one cup
1 small can of pineapple in heavy syrup (about 6 ounces)
3 oz Dark Rum, suggest Meyers
1 ounce Vodka

Rim 4 highball glasses with dry chai spice blend. Combine all ingredients into blender and blend on high. Pour into 4 glasses.

Yield: 4 portions
Prep time: 2 minutes
Cook time: None
Inactive Prep time: None
Ease of Preparation: Easy

Fried Plantains with Sweet Heat

3 Green plantains
1/4 cup garlic, minced
2 Fresh limes, cut
2 Tablespoons sweet chili sauce
1 Tablespoon sweet hot mustard
1 teaspoon horseradish, Old Fashioned, straight
1 Tablespoon rice vinegar, natural
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Dash cayenne pepper
Coarse sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper to taste
2 Cups canola oil

Make sauce first. Combine in a small glass or ceramic bowl the juice of 1/2 of lime, sweet chili sauce, mustard, horseradish and vinegar. Set aside.

Heat oil in heavy pan ( 12" pan 1/2" deep in oil)
Cut plantain on diagonal into 1" thick pieces, remove peel. When oil is hot, add in plantains and fry both sides until golden. Drain on paper bag, add salt, pepper and place smashed garlic on plantains. With a flat bottomed, heat proof, glass bowl, smash plantains evenly flat, embedding garlic into them. Return to hot oil and fry until dark golden brown. Remove, drain again on paper bag, adding more coarse salt to taste, the cayenne pepper and a squeeze of lime.

Serve while hot with sauce.

[yongamerica]

EEEEeewwwwwww,
A Polynesian based marinaded meat on Italian noodles, with a southern bean casserole, and Caribbean bannanas????!!!!

Each in their own right sounds good, but together, what a mess. Not in my kitchen!

This combination is as bad as his hairdo. Stick to you day job of reporting about you eating in dives and please don''t cook anymore. This set of recipes removed all doubts about your plasticine personality. Alton Brown set up up with this as a joke, right?

[harp1963]

I love your show Guy. My son and I love the "Mom and Pop" places you go to all over America and just wish we could eat at all these places too!

One of my favorites was the black guy who had the barbercue pork rib place somewhere in the south east. He rubbed all the pork ribs down by hand and smoked them just how his Dad did while he was raised doing this with his Dad. When you guys interviewed all the patrons you could see that they had a love affair with the goodness and quality of the ribs. Man, just makes me want to have some ribs just thinking about it.