The Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago, The Caribbean & Beyond!
My personal thoughts and reflections on my cooking escapades
Growing up, one of the things that I gradually began to realize set me aside from my friends and classmates was the fact that in my house Sunday lunch was never a ‘Trini’ affair. Roasted Chicken, Rice and Peas, Boiled Plaintain (shown above) replaced my …
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 😉
One month ago, Saturday August 12, I was happy to take part in a beach cleanup at Balandra, a relatively secluded beach on Trinidad’s 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 I’m all about the steak fries and MovieTowne’s are the greatest! I don’t know what they season them with, and I’ve 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 🙂 Mangoes and avocados, fresh from one of our neighbour’s country estates.
My fruit jar for this year’s 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 I’ve been watching Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods and wondering “Gee I wonder what he would think of Trinidad?”. 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 month’s theme of Meeta’s Monthly Mingle was “Earth Food” 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 I’m not quite sure, but …
• 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 …
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 …
Speedlinks to interesting stuff I’ve found on the INTERwebz 😛 1. Dragonfire has an excerpt of Ramin Ganeshram’s excellent Sweet Hands: Island Cooking From Trinidad And Tobago (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) on their site. Check it out 🙂 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 don’t 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 year’s Taste T&T festival, but you know what they say ‘save the best for last’ 😛 It’s taken me longer than I had expected to get to …
