The Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago, The Caribbean & Beyond!
My personal thoughts and reflections on my cooking escapades
YAY!!! So I know this is probably nothing to my American and Canadian readers but I am deliriously happy that as of May 1st the Food Network was FINALLY added to the cable TV lineup here in Trinidad! I have not had 24hr access to …
1. Hostess Wedding Cakes Huh? Wha? Apparently brides in search of non-traditional cakes are turning increasingly to cakes made of iced and stacked versions of twinkies and hostess cupcakes. YumSugar provides various visual examples of this growing trend, which I gotta tell ya is -not- …
I’m curious about what is going through your mind. What you want to see. What you want to know. What brings you here 🙂 So I’m making this post into an official request line. Nevermind the fact that I already have a huuuuge backlog of …
For those who are not fluent in Trini ‘all yuh’ means ‘all of you’, it is also the name of Trinidad and Tobago??????s user driven social content website. Early this morning it came to my attention that TriniGourmet.com was listed as one of their Top …
I love cooking with my crockpot but I also find that many recipes in cookbooks and online are hit or miss. As a result the number of dishes that I make a second time are few and far between. If you have a favourite tried …
Sno Cone Cart – Woodford Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad Here is a glimpse into what some of the bloggers on my Favorite Feeds are talking about: 1) On The Fresh Loaf (my favorite site for all things bread) a reader posts three results for …
This just in! Food Network Canada will feature Trinidad and Angostura Bitters this week on the show ‘The Thirsty Traveler’. Details are as follows 🙂 Trinidad: Bitters – The Thirsty Traveler – Food Network Canada The Thirsty Traveler Episode: Trinidad: Bitters HOSTED BY: Kevin Brauch …
This time around I have decided to focus my poll on the work of Wendy Rahamut. For those who don’t know her Wendy Rahamut is Trinidad’s #1 celebrity cook. She hosts a weekly cooking show, has a weekly column in the Trinidad Guardian,owns and operates …
The majority has spoken, 55% of you said ‘Show me the full article!’, so following your wishes I have switched TriniGourmet over to a full-feed format! 🙂 And, because 25% of you wanted to know what RSS is, I have also provided a separate ‘What …
In my Blogging by Mail package was a package of odd looking brown noodles. I wasn’t sure at first what they were. From the italian text I could figure out it was pasta, but with mushrooms? Was i reading it wrong? Turns out I wasn’t! …
“Cooking with Three Ingredients: Flavorful Food, Easy as 1, 2, 3“ Am I the only home cook who has their ‘fallback’ book? It seems like no matter how many cookbooks I collect, how many websites I bookmark or magzine clippings I compile, when I’m in …
Sea Salt! I love Sea Salt! I started buying it a few years ago after TruValu stopped stocking kosher salt. I loved its coarse texture, intense flavour and of course, being the health hippy that I was raised to be, its trace mineral goodness. Normally …
Here is my long overdue conclusion to the Blogger Postcards From Around the World exchange that I took part in several months ago. You can click here to see the postcard that I sent out (unfortunately I’ve gotten no feedback on whether my postcard was …
I’ve never been a big fan of ‘thin mints’. My only memories of them were in the boxes of US Girl Guide cookies that would appear from time to time in the dorms during college. I believe I’ve also had them locally but I don’t …
