Donald – Where’s Yer Troozers?
This Christmas I have fufilled another of my Caribbean Food culinary dreams – to make traditional Caribbean sorrel drink the way my mother does. I succeeded. Sorrel is red, related to the Hibiscus...
View ArticleCaribbean Pie In The Sky
I love apples, baked, raw, fried, stewed, I could go on, but I think you see the picture. My mum – caribbean food home cook extraordinaire – makes a demon apple pie. With a ‘melt in your mouth’ short...
View ArticleCaribbean Chocolate Tea – Liquid Heaven
Rich, creamy and spicy. Caribbean Food Chocolate Tea. A Sunday morning treat. My Dad grew up on a farm, and one of the things they grew was chocolate. His Grandfather planted the cocoa, and the family...
View ArticleMy True Love Have My Heart And I Have His
Their eyes met across a crowded room drowning out all else around them. The prince waded through the throng of partygoers, never once losing her gaze. She was transfixed. Finally he was in front of...
View ArticleMothers – who’d be one?
I enjoy being a mother and relish the complexities and challenges it brings. I firmly believe all human beings are made to nurture, I have concluded it’s innate within all of us. This Mother’s Day,...
View ArticleLet me see you ‘stamp and go’
Patois, or Caribbean Creole is a blend of different languages, each island in the Caribbean posessing it’s own dialect. I grew up to the sound of Jamaican Patois. At times highly amusing, occasionally...
View ArticleCaribbean Food Summer Cooking
Do you hate cooking in your kitchen during the summer heat? Me too! But if you think it’s a punishment from above for past-life misdemeanors, to be standing in your kitchen perspiring, sweat running...
View ArticleCaribbean food king? My dad –‘Mr T’
My dad recently passed away, he was a fiercely loyal, loving father with a strong family ethic. I love my dad, and I miss him greatly, I am coming to terms with the fact that he has gone, and I can no...
View ArticleRoman Catholics and Dominoes.
As a child, Easter was a very important date in my Caribbean food diary. Firstly, I would be on school break. Secondly, it was a time when my mum would make her Heavenly Easter Bun, and thirdly, my dad...
View ArticleA Right Royal Knees Up
It had to be done, William and Kate had decided to tie the knot at last. I waited with baited breath for the announcement. Finally , in November, it came. I could breath again. April 29th 2011. How...
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