Glossary P

Plank refers to a method of cooking meat or fish on a seasoned board.

Deutsch: Pflanze
Plants, also called green plants (Viridiplantae in Latin), are living multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts and mosses, as well as, depending on definition, the green algae. Plants exclude the red and brown seaweeds such as kelp, the fungi, Archaea and bacteria. Green plants have cell walls with cellulose and characteristically obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis using chlorophyll contained in chloroplasts, which gives them their green color.

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Deutsch: Kochbanane / Indian: Nendrakkaya, Ethakaya

Plantain is a green skinned banana with a firm texture, also called a cooking banana. A cooking plantain or plantain is a fruit of one of the cultivated varieties (cultivars) of the genus Musa intended to be consumed only after cooking or other processing, rather than being eaten raw. Those fruits intended to be eaten raw may be called "dessert bananas" or just "bananas", although "banana" is also used as a collective term to include both bananas and plantains.

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Planter's punch refers to a cocktail of gold rum, bourbon, cognac, lemon juice, club soda and bitters.

Plasa refers to Gambia's food which consists of meat and smoked fish, cooked in palm oil with leafy vegetables. Plasa is usually served with Fou-Fou, which is trashed up cassava.

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Plat du jour is the French term which refers to "the main dish of the day at a restaurant"

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Plat Principal is the French term that refers to "main dish" or "main course" . In French restaurants, Plat Principat usually has a section for section and for meat and main courses are usually served with some vegetables.

Platano is a Spanish word for bananas

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Platano a la Tentacion refers to ripe plantains that are baked with wine or rum, brown sugar and cinnamon. It is a favored dish in Cuba.

Platano Canario refers to the small Canary Islands variety of banana which is prized for its soft texture and sweetness. It was the Portuguese who first planted bananas in the Islands. Everywhere you look around in Teneriffe, even in some big cities are Banana Plants, especially where my mother-in-law used to live, we have seen plenty of banana trees. In the Philippines, we also have a small banana variety which is famous in Tagaytay, still in their branches, these bananas are sold fruits and vegetable stalls along the highways. They are also very sweet, soft meat with thin skin.

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