Grilled Sweet Plantains or Bananas with Guava and Salty Cheese

Take a coffee break in a Spanish-Caribbean country and you might be served a pastry filled with guava paste and cream cheese. Order a cheese course in Spain or Brazil and you’re sure to receive a salty cheese, like Manchego, with a slab of sweet, crimson quince paste. Visit the Bogotá home of my friends Marta and Andres Reyes for a barbecue and dessert will likely be grilled guava paste and cheese-stuffed plantains. (Guava and quince pastes are similar and interchangeable, but guava paste h