Author: Sarina

Hindu eating habits in Trinidad (video)

Hindu eating habits in Trinidad (video)

Found an interesting article on Hindu Eating Habits in Trinidad from DesiJournal.com. Like many Trinidadians I’ve attended pujas/Indian weddings/Divali festivities. It’s always a grand time! 🙂 Filling and lighting deyas is one of my all-time favorite childhood memories 🙂 Excerpt: The Soharee leaf, a plant 

Organic Market – Trinidad

Organic Market – Trinidad

Found the following online. Definitely interested in checking it out! Title: Organic Market Category: Community/Festival Time: Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Contact: Gillian Goddard Venue: Rear Cottage, 80 Roberts St, Port of Spain Phone Contact: 868 379-6860 or 722-8559 Complete Description: Every Saturday Sun 

Ole Year Offerings (2006): Roasted Garlic White Pizza with Garlic Sauce

Pizza is the ultimate crowd pleaser and this ‘up-scale’ vegetarian version is sure to be a hit with whatever crowd you have over for the New Year. I replaced the fontina with cheddar (much cheaper and also the traditional pizza cheese here in Trinidad :D), 

Trinidad Buljol (recipe)

Salted codfish, tomatoes and the hottest peppers known to man. Probably not the most scintillating combination on paper, but believe me one taste and you -will- be hooked! Buljol is without a doubt one of my favorite breakfast foods. I love the way that the 

Ole Year Offerings (2006): Sarina’s Mint Tea Cocktail

Welcome to the first in my ‘Ole Year Offerings’ Series. In Trinidad ‘Ole Year’s’ is how we refer to New Years Eve. Much as it is around the world it is a time for gathering, celebration and anticipation. Hopefully the recipes that I’ll be sharing 

How To Create The Perfect Cheese Plate

Trini blogger (and apparent Carnival addict) Fit4Mas recently posted a guide to creating a Cheese Plate. I love cheese plates and have never known how to go about putting one together! Were there dos? Were there don’ts? Well.. now I know! And now you will 

Macaroni Pie, Callaloo and Ginger Beer

Mom’s macaroni pie, callaloo and ginger beer 😀

Trinidad “Sweet Hand” Cuisine (From American Eagle Latitudes)

Chicken with za’atar, shankleesh, basil, tomatoes and sumac oil on a bed of couscous. – Battimamzelle Restaurant (Trinidad) Photo taken by the lovely and generous Chennette 😉 American Eagle Latitudes, (the inflight magazine of American Eagle) has a great article called Trinidad “Sweet Hand” Cuisine. 

Blogging By Mail (Sweets from Trinidad) – Part 1

OOOO! My Blogging By Mail assignee received her package today 🙂 I was worried that she would not get it before Xmas day so that’s a big smile on my face 😀 Typical! Even Trini packages have to wait til the last possible moment to 

Gifts for the Wine Geek On Your List

From the Northshore Outlook comes the following gift suggestions for that Wine Geek in your life 🙂 Recommended suggestions include: The Danby 30 Bottle Wine Cooler Excerpt: One of the best wine gifts I ever received was a Danby Wine Fridge. It holds approximately 40 

A Las’ Minute Lagniappe

This morning I woke up to some fabulous news! My post “Six Moments that Changed my Foodie Life in 2006” had actually won a prize! Congratulations Sarina, you are one of the winners of the ProBlogger Group Writing Project. You’ve won $100 cash or $500 

Six Moments That Changed My Foodie Life in 2006

My happy jar of homemade Ras-Al-Hanout Based on the Butterfly Effect Meme, and the ProBlogger Writing Project, I thought that it would be an interesting idea to share those Food Items/Events that changed my Foodie Life in 2006! Feel free to add to the discussion 

Global Goodness (#1)

Woodford Square – Trinidad As you can imagine I spend a good bit of time surfing the net for my ‘foodie fix’ 🙂 I thought it would be a good idea to occasionally share some of my finds with y’all in a series I’ll call 

Discover Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad – Eating out

Blondie – Ruby Tuesdays (Trinidad) Photo taken by the lovely and generous Chennette 😉 The tourist guide “Discover Trinidad and Tobago” has a guide to eating out in the North-West. Because of its geographic focus the only establishments mentioned are those in and around the