I am home* for a couple weeks – vacation, then to vote.** So, taking advantage of being at home with Mom (who did the beef and beans), I present to you our Sunday Lunch today! Cornmeal Coucou, stew beef and red beans! Sunday lunch is a big thing in the Caribbean. It’s the time to [...]
Author Archives: Chennette
Cheese Sticks, revisited
April 12, 2010 – 9:12 pm
Just thought I’d post about my revisiting my Late Night Cheese Sticks recipe (otherwise known as Cheese Straws). I made them again this weekend and I really liked the way they turned out – although alot of that was not entirely intentional! I used both shredded cheddar and parmesan – the cheddar incorporated into the [...]
Café Au Lait, a (Trini) novel by Liane Spicer
April 11, 2010 – 2:00 am
As with most things not related to my work, I am very late on posting about Café Au Lait by Liane Spicer, an author and blogger from T&T who is also a reader of this blog. Aka_lol reviewed the novel a year and a half ago for example. Liane, I apologise… But I can rectify [...]
Copyright, Blogging and the Media
April 7, 2010 – 9:56 pm
This is a post that is long overdue. Very long. Georgia Popplewell of Caribbean Free Radio posted today (with the absolutely perfect title “photos don’t take themselves“) about two Trinidad and Tobago publications using one of her photos, without permission and of course without credit (Newsday even placed their watermark on the photo!). TriniGourmet, with her usual [...]
Trini Bakery Goodies – the Photos
April 1, 2010 – 12:41 am
You may recall that in my recent post, Ode to the Bread Van, I rambled on, reminiscing about all the goodies that were to be had from Trini bakeries and bread vans. With nary a picture to illustrate. Especially unfortunate for those who may not have known some of the goodies I mentioned. This post [...]
Rose Levy Berenbaum Pizza
March 24, 2010 – 9:15 am
I’ve posted about great pizza doughs before – specifically, the best flavoured and textured pizza, which we* have tried - Alton Brown’s pizza recipe. His method requires planning a day in advance to get the full development of flavour, but it gives you a lovely crispy and chewy crust (balance of crispiness and chewiness dependent on [...]
Ode to the Bread Van*, and the goodies therein
March 22, 2010 – 12:09 am
I tasted something in Guyana last week which brought back childhood memories of Trinidad. It was unexpected – they called it “bun” or “coconut bun” and I cannot remember if I’d seen it before in a bakery in Guyana. I may have, but then “bun” as a small, unprepossessing yellowish thing would have taken me [...]
Touristing in Georgetown, Guyana
March 17, 2010 – 9:59 pm
I have been living in Georgetown for almost 5 years now* and I have never really blogged about the city…I think that it is perhaps somewhat normal to take your immediate surroundings for granted. When I travel say, to Grenada for a business trip, I have limited distractions to take me away from pointing my [...]
Ratio, by Michael Ruhlman
February 26, 2010 – 1:12 am
Lilandra and I finally got around to buying (and reading) some books that have been in my wishlist..then shopping cart…for aeons. One of them (which she bought for me), is Ratio by Michael Ruhlman. I’ve been following his blog for a while – in addition to being an good read (including the comments), the photos by [...]
Chennette Chirps #1
February 17, 2010 – 8:47 pm
Lifespan of a Chennette has decided to join Twitter. She won’t be tweeting, however, but chirping. Chennette chirps sounds so much cuter, doesn’t it? And if I have to make bird sounds, may as well choose my own vocabulary. On a less frivolous note, I have been thinking about this for a while. Although I [...]
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