Mofongo’s three main ingredients (plantains, pork cracklings, and garlic) seem straightforward on their own, yet when fried and mashed together, they come together to deliver a completely ...

While customers at this new Springfield pizza shop can get a slew of traditional pizzas, one menu item offers a fusion of two ...

mofongo consists of seafood, meat or vegetables atop mashed plantains; pasteles are made of mashed banana (or yucca) and stuffed with pork, chicken or cod; and lechón is smoky, roasted suckling pig.

Substitute mofongo for apple pie and you have a fairly ... heaping mound of mashed fried green plantains studded with crisp pork cracklings — has many incarnations across the island: drenched ...

SPRINGFIELD — Sure, you can find calzones for sale at lots of places. But at the soon-to-open Tower Pizza in Springfield’s Tower Square, you’ll find Mofongo Madness, a calzone with fried plantains, ...