Author: Sarina

Get Your C Ginger-Lime Tea (recipe)

A rainy day. A warm cup of ginger-lime tea. Bliss. This recipe for Ginger-Lime tea comes from Everyday With Rachael Rayand is chock-full of goodness. Fresh lime/lemon juice provides a boost of vitamin C, and grated ginger brings powerful antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents. The combination 

Top 3 Fish Recipes on TriniGourmet.com (July 2007)

1.Trinidad Saltfish Accra – recipe Trinidad accra are puffy fried dough balls, made of a highly seasoned dough into which shredded saltfish has been mixed. I’ve had it at weddings, gatherings, and of course bought it from street vendors – view this popular fish recipe 

Trackback Love: week ending July 28, 2007

Trackback Love: week ending July 28, 2007

• Dispensing Happiness: Blog Party #24 Blogger’s Choice Stephanie “The Happy Sorceress” is host to the Monthly Blog Party get-together. Every month she sets a theme that we food bloggers have to adhere to when creating our appetizer and complimentary cocktail. This month the theme 

Mango Cake (recipe)

Mango Cake (recipe)

This month’s theme of Sugar High Friday is “tropical paradise“. Well seeing as I live on the very tropical island of Trinidad this should be a cinch! 🙂 Currently, mangoes are in season and we are buried under several bags of the good stuff (courtesy 

Foodies Unite!: Blogging for a Good Cause

Foodies Unite!: Blogging for a Good Cause

From Monday July 16th until September 3rd Ari of the über-excellent Baking and Books will be holding a fundraising raffle for the 2007 Jewish Environmental Bike Ride. She hopes to meet her goal of raising $2000 and is offering individuals one virtual raffle ticket for 

Sarina’s Tropical Mango Hot Sauce (recipe)

Sarina’s Tropical Mango Hot Sauce (recipe)

I can’t believe it’s already been a month since the last installment of “Waiter There’s Something in my…”! Where did the time go? This time around the theme was sauces. Originally I had thought of coming up with a pasta sauce as I haven’t made 

TriniGourmet’s Top 3 Posts (as of July 2007)

TriniGourmet’s Top 3 Posts (as of July 2007)

1. Trinidad Doubles Trinidad doubles is the ultimate local street food. Cheap. Hot. Hearty. Filling – recipe here 4. Trinidad Macaroni Pie This dish is part of the traditional Trinidadian Sunday lunch and is also offered in cubed form at BBQs and other casual outdoor 

Sarina’s Caribbean Cooler (repost)

Sarina’s Caribbean Cooler (repost)

As part of my summer drink series I thought I’d pull a quintessential West Indian cocktail, the Caribbean Cooler, straight from the TriniGourmet archives. This recipe originally came from my mother’s retro copy of Jamaican Cuisine (1964) and can be seen here. Feel free to 

Mom’s Curried Eggplant, Curried Pumpkin and Rice

Mom’s Curried Eggplant, Curried Pumpkin and Rice

Just a photo of a random lunch mom made recently. She also made curried chicken but I wasn’t in the mood for any 🙂

Turmeric

Turmeric

Several months ago my mother came home with these things that looked like ginger roots, but smaller and thinner. I asked what they were and she said ‘turmeric’. She had bought them for medicinal reasons (we use a lot of herbal and aromatherapy concoctions in 

Trackback Love: July 21, 2007

Trackback Love: July 21, 2007

Every week I’m alerted to sites that are linking to TriniGourmet.com via Technorati and HitTail. Some of these links are to roundups of food challenges I have participated in whereas others are sites where others are sharing their experiences with this site or adding me 

Scallion Pancakes and Sarina’s Sparkling Green Tea (recipe)

Scallion Pancakes and Sarina’s Sparkling Green Tea (recipe)

Several months ago, Canadian food blogger kslobodian (who was also the subject of my second Nyam interview) posted a recipe for Green Onion pancakes. Green onion pancakes (or scallion pancakes as I know them) were something that I was introduced to during my college years 

Regal ‘Olive Oil’ – A Pomace Disgrace

Regal ‘Olive Oil’ – A Pomace Disgrace

There really is no substitute for extra-virgin olive oil, something that I’m sure every foodie would attest to. However finding decent olive oil is getting harder and harder for me at my local supermarket. It wasn’t always this way. Up until several months ago they 

Army Of Chocolate Biscotti

Army Of Chocolate Biscotti

Like most food bloggers I have amassed a huge set of backlinks to recipes that I want to ‘try’ one day 🙂 In fact, I would not be hurt if no one believes me anymore when I comment on their blog that I have bookmarked