As I’ve indicated in the past, I’m addicted to avocados or zabouca and/or pear, as it’s also known in the Caribbean. However, the variety of avocados grown in the Caribbean is much different than the ones you’d get from California, Mexico, and other Central American countries. Ours are much bigger, have a different texture (less…
I remember a few years back my cousin (jokingly) saying to us “my wife made me guacamole and roti for breakfast”. After the laughter subsided we soon realized that he may have a point. What we lovingly call zabouca choka in Trinidad and Tobago, is pretty much the same thing known as guacamole in other…
Zaboca (avocado) season was one of favourite times of the year when we were growing up on the islands. Now my seasons are reduced to summer, winter, spring and fall. As a kid we enjoyed, mango season, avocado season, plum season.. you get the picture… the fruit dictated the seasons for us. To this day,…
