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Fierce Green Scotch Bonnet Pesto.
Fierce Green Scotch Bonnet Pesto.
16
Oct 2018

Fierce Green Scotch Bonnet Pesto.

Bits and Bites

During the summer months I grow a lot of different varieties of extremely hot peppers, so I’m always looking for ways to put them to use. While I’ve never seen a recipe like this, the end results were just stunning. Based on the traditional way of making a basil pesto, however I’m putting a fiery Caribbean twist to things. So you can expect the Caribbean sunshine (scotch bonnet peppers) to really shine through. Be warned.. this is not your grandma’s pesto.

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Fierce Green Scotch Bonnet Pesto.

Bits and Bites

During the summer months I grow a lot of different varieties of extremely hot peppers, so I’m always looking for ways to put them to use. While I’ve never seen a recipe like this, the end results were just stunning. Based on the traditional way of making a basil pesto, however I’m putting a fiery Caribbean twist to things. So you can expect the Caribbean sunshine (scotch bonnet peppers) to really shine through. Be warned.. this is not your grandma’s pesto.

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Amazing Coconut Stewed Oxtails.
14
Oct 2018

Amazing Coconut Stewed Oxtails.

Beef

With winter around the corner I thought I’d share a lovely soul warming comfort dish, packed with pure Caribbean goodness. While oxtails use to be ‘poor man’s’ food, the price today tells a different story. So if you can’t source or afford oxtails, you can certainly use turkey neck cut into pieces. Based on the typical brown-sugar stewing method we use in the Caribbean, these oxtail will be properly seasoned, falling off the bone and you’ll definitely be excited to serve this up.

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Amazing Coconut Stewed Oxtails.
14
Oct 2018
Caribbean Ginger Stewed Chicken With String Beans.
28
Aug 2018
Caribbean Ginger Stewed Chicken With String Beans.

Caribbean Ginger Stewed Chicken With String Beans.

Chicken

This is a dish mom would always make on a Monday, when she would have leftover stewed chicken from Sunday’s massive lunch (well if my brother and I didn’t attack the chicken the evening before as we watched Knight Rider). The string beans or in some cases Bodi (yard bean) usually came from our little kitchen garden at the back of the house and I was somehow always involved in picking them. This time we’ll rock this from ‘scratch’.

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Caribbean Ginger Stewed Chicken With String Beans.

Chicken

This is a dish mom would always make on a Monday, when she would have leftover stewed chicken from Sunday’s massive lunch (well if my brother and I didn’t attack the chicken the evening before as we watched Knight Rider). The string beans or in some cases Bodi (yard bean) usually came from our little kitchen garden at the back of the house and I was somehow always involved in picking them. This time we’ll rock this from ‘scratch’.

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Amazing 1 Hour Caribbean Curry Goat (Power Pressure Cooker)
Amazing 1 Hour Caribbean Curry Goat (Power Pressure Cooker)
27
Aug 2018

Amazing 1 Hour Caribbean Curry Goat (Power Pressure Cooker)

Bits and Bites

I’m NOT a fan of pressure cookers as mom had us thinking from our childhood days that they were an accident waiting to happen. I guess someone in our village got injured when one exploded on her and that fear trickled though our entire community. Plus I find that when a pressure cooker is used, it does not develop the complex flavors slow cooking does. With all the requests for more recipes using pressure cookers, especially powered ones (supposedly safer now) I thought I’d put this one to a test. One Hour Curry Goat!

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Amazing 1 Hour Caribbean Curry Goat (Power Pressure Cooker)

Bits and Bites

I’m NOT a fan of pressure cookers as mom had us thinking from our childhood days that they were an accident waiting to happen. I guess someone in our village got injured when one exploded on her and that fear trickled though our entire community. Plus I find that when a pressure cooker is used, it does not develop the complex flavors slow cooking does. With all the requests for more recipes using pressure cookers, especially powered ones (supposedly safer now) I thought I’d put this one to a test. One Hour Curry Goat!

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Boiled And Fried Cassava (vegan | glutenfree)
20
Aug 2018
Boiled And Fried Cassava (vegan | glutenfree)

Boiled And Fried Cassava (vegan | glutenfree)

Bits and Bites

Usually I do this re-fried cassava recipe with bits of salted cod, but with the amount of requests I get for more vegetarian/vegan dishes, I thought we’d rock it this way instead. Cassava, yucca, manioc, mandioca or whatever name you may know this ‘ground provision’ by, is one of those of those ingredients I just adore using/eating. It takes me back to a carefree time and place on the islands, I cherish more the older I get. Let’s get started.

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Boiled And Fried Cassava (vegan | glutenfree)

Bits and Bites

Usually I do this re-fried cassava recipe with bits of salted cod, but with the amount of requests I get for more vegetarian/vegan dishes, I thought we’d rock it this way instead. Cassava, yucca, manioc, mandioca or whatever name you may know this ‘ground provision’ by, is one of those of those ingredients I just adore using/eating. It takes me back to a carefree time and place on the islands, I cherish more the older I get. Let’s get started.

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Simple Herb Roasted Chicken.
19
Aug 2018
Simple Herb Roasted Chicken.

Simple Herb Roasted Chicken.

Chicken

There’s something so comforting from not just the taste of a succlent oven roasted (say ‘bake’ chicken in the Caribbean) chicken, but that scent that permeates through your entire house originating from the kitchen. I remember being in Jamaica on vacation and roasting-off a chicken on the 4th floor of the condo complex we were staying in, and 4 floors below on the pool deck one would get the alluring whiff depending on the direction of the gentle Caribbean breeze. So simple, yet so tasty!

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Simple Herb Roasted Chicken.

Chicken

There’s something so comforting from not just the taste of a succlent oven roasted (say ‘bake’ chicken in the Caribbean) chicken, but that scent that permeates through your entire house originating from the kitchen. I remember being in Jamaica on vacation and roasting-off a chicken on the 4th floor of the condo complex we were staying in, and 4 floors below on the pool deck one would get the alluring whiff depending on the direction of the gentle Caribbean breeze. So simple, yet so tasty!

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