The Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago, The Caribbean & Beyond!
My personal thoughts and reflections on my cooking escapades
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, Macoya Coca-Cola is an international goliath when it comes to marketing, and even here in Trinidad the Coca-Cola bottling plant never wears the same outfit for too long. Check out its current attire đ
One month ago, Saturday August 12, I was happy to take part in a beach cleanup at Balandra, a relatively secluded beach on Trinidadâs North Coast. Organized by Mystic Hemp, the trip to and from Balandra provided me with many opportunities to shoot (and learn …
Forget about popcorn, when I go to the movies Iâm all about the steak fries and MovieTowneâs are the greatest! I donât know what they season them with, and Iâve tried to figure it out. I suspect there is some seasoning salt going on, and …
Steamed breadfruit, smoked herring sauce, avocado Mmmm breadfruit. It really borders on the obscene how much I love this thing⌠Every time one comes our way I make a promise that I will photograph it properly, as well as its preparation. Inevitably something always comes …
The bounty keeps on coming đ Mangoes and avocados, fresh from one of our neighbourâs country estates.
My fruit jar for this yearâs December black cakes is slowly but steadily rising. Whenever I buy dried fruits I set aside half of what is leftover into the jar and top it up with rum or cherry brandy (depending on what I have on …
For the longest while Iâve been watching Andrew Zimmernâs Bizarre Foods and wondering âGee I wonder what he would think of Trinidad?â. Well, someone must have been listening to my brain waves because the next thing I know I was reading that a Trinidad and …
When I heard that this monthâs theme of Meetaâs Monthly Mingle was âEarth Foodâ I smiled. You see, I have been interested in the preservation of the environment from a very young age. Where I got this passion for conservation Iâm not quite sure, but …
⢠Dispensing Happiness: Blog Party #24 Bloggerâs Choice Stephanie âThe Happy Sorceressâ 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 …
There really is no substitute for extra-virgin olive oil, something that Iâm sure every foodie would attest to. However finding decent olive oil is getting harder and harder for me at my local supermarket. It wasnât always this way. Up until several months ago they …
Speedlinks to interesting stuff Iâve found on the INTERwebz đ 1. Dragonfire has an excerpt of Ramin Ganeshramâs excellent Sweet Hands: Island Cooking From Trinidad And Tobago (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) on their site. Check it out đ 2. After a brief disappearance dried sorrel is …
I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled across this article in the Trinidad Express. So often we pick up products in the supermarket and donât think of the names and faces behind the label. Corporations and brands just seem, by nature, to be faceless and …
Ok, the TriniGourmet is now probably the last Trini on the planet to share her experience of this yearâs Taste T&T festival, but you know what they say âsave the best for lastâ đ Itâs taken me longer than I had expected to get to …
Every now and again I like to take a look at what people are searching for here on TriniGourmet.com. It gives me ideas on what to create next, and what to expand on đ Not surprisingly there are always a few searches for pork (esp. …