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Simple Bread and Butter Pickles
These simple breand and butter pickles are a perfect summer condiment or midnight snack.
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Curry String Beans with Potato (Aloo)
When string beans are in season, there’s nothing more satisfying than a pot of Curry String Beans with Potato simmering away in the kitchen. This is a simple yet intensely flavorful Caribbean curry that’s perfect for vegan, vegetarian, or Ital diets, though meat lovers enjoy it just as much. Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago,…
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Summertime Creamy Cucumber Salad
When cucumbers are at their peak in the garden, there’s no better way to enjoy them than in this Summertime Creamy Cucumber Salad. Crisp slices of cucumber and onion are tossed in a tangy, herb-packed dressing made with sour cream, mayo, and fresh dill. This salad is quick to prepare, cooling on a hot day,…
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Garlic and Chive String Beans with Cashews
Every summer, when the string beans start coming in strong from my garden, I look forward to building simple, flavor-forward dishes like this one. This Garlic and Chive String Beans with Cashews recipe is part of my #InSeason series, which celebrates seasonal ingredients I grow or source locally that inspire everyday cooking at home. I…
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A Quick Summer Fruit Compote.
A Fruity Caribbean-Inspired Sauce to Elevate Your Summer Meals With friends dropping by on their way to the Toronto Caribbean Carnival (still called Caribana by many of us), I wanted to whip up something special using fruits that are at their peak during summer. Peaches, plums, and cherries were looking perfect at the market, so…
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Bold & Flavorful Chenette Chow (Guinep / Ackee Chow)
This Chenette Chow is a spicy tropical chow combining guinep fruit, ackee, onion, carrot and vinegar for tangy Caribbean flavor in a jar.
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Easy Tropical Mango Passionfruit Juice
Tropical Mango Passionfruit Juice: a refreshingly invigorating blend of mango, passionfruit pulp, sugar and water for an island-style drink.
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Garlic Chive Butter
A rich and flavorful homemade butter infused with garlic and fresh spring chives.
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Classic Shrimp Ceviche
A refreshing shrimp ceviche loaded with citrus, herbs, mango, and avocado.
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Curry Stew Pork with Kale
During my time as a lil fella on the islands, I don’t ever recall seeing Kale being sold in the markets, nor anyone in my village growing it. Over the last few years, I’ve enjoyed the Kale Salad Recipe I shared back in 2018, as well as the Cantaloupe, Cucumber, and Kale smoothie on many occasions. This version of putting Kale to use follows the traditional way we’d use other ‘greens’ in the Caribbean.
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Salted Pigtails and String Beans in Coconut Milk
Here’s yet another one of those ‘country’ dishes mom would make with dad in mind. Back then, she’d normally use Bodi (also known as bora or snakebean) when we didn’t have string beans in the kitchen garden. You’ll find variations of this dish on the website where I used salted Beef, leftover stewed pork or chicken, and I believe there’s a version where I used salted cod.
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Trinidad Tamarind Sauce for Doubles & Pholourie
As a lil fella on the islands, this was a fave snack of mine during my primary school days. There were vendors outside Harmony Hall Presbyterian School who sold this sauce in small bags, along with Mango Chow and Mango Talkari. Said vendors were well supported by my brother and me, with our daily allowance, which my mom would give us.
