{"id":154,"date":"2010-02-26T21:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/02\/26\/food-frakker-exploring-the-ackee\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:23:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:23:58","slug":"food-frakker-exploring-the-ackee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2010\/02\/26\/food-frakker-exploring-the-ackee\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Frakker: Exploring the Ackee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another food treasure I got from my housemate was a can of ackees.
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\nAckees are a Jamaican fruit or something. If you google that word get a stack of SEO Jamaican tourism pages with recipes for "Saltfish and Ackees." I also found this choice tidbit of information about the ackee:<\/p>\n

"Under-ripe fruit can contain high levels of toxic substances called hypoglycins. Ingestion of these toxins can result in excessive vomiting, convulsions, coma and even death."<\/a><\/p>\n

But they already had a recall over that, so everything’s cool now.<\/p>\n

Also in the birthday box of food was a bag of dried pollack, which I figured was close enough to being dried cod for purposes of making ackees and saltfish.<\/p>\n

The dried pollack was soaked overnight and then boiled for twenty minutes.
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\nAnd then shredded with a fork.
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Meanwhile, I made some fried plantains for the side. It’s always hard to get over the fact that they look like bananas but taste like potatoes.
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\nYou know what helps me get over that? Frying them in bacon fat.<\/p>\n

Then the whole wad got stewed in a frying pan with onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spices like thyme and pepper. Essentially everything that you would normally put in a breakfast hash, except instead of scrambled eggs it’s a pile of bright yellow, possibly fatal fruit.
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\nI suspect that it’s not a coincidence that the national dish of Jamaica has the same colors as the Rastafarians.<\/p>\n

The resulting dish tasted mostly of onions and peppers. But the pollack gave it a meaty, chewy satisfaction.
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\nThe ackee itself was hardly noticeable. Imagine an avocado, but with a quarter of the density and taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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