I haven’t posted for Ramadan yet, but Lilandra has been more than making up for this – she’s been assiduously recording the Suhrs and Iftars and the general progression of the month in the family home in Trinidad and Tobago, with some forays to our village mosque. Pictures and everything. The course of my Ramadan [...]
Category Archives: Caribbean
Caribbean Fruits
August 14, 2008 – 9:37 pm
It’s time for some fruits again. Granted, not all of these are necessarily in season right this minute, like my previous post, but think of this as some more general information on fruits in the region. You never know when you might need this kind of information. Buying fruits in the Caribbean can be a [...]
Trini Cheese Paste Recipe
February 9, 2008 – 8:33 pm
It’s a bit odd to me that I am posting a recipe for cheese paste, because if it’s one food item in the Trini repertoire that should be entirely freeform in its construction, it’s this ubiquitous sandwich spread. But I made it recently and I thought, why not? It’s more than just a sandwich spread really. [...]
Cruising to Trinidad
November 27, 2007 – 11:40 am
Pearls Before Swine is one of my must-read comic strips. The friendly fierce guard dog is apparently going on a cruise. To Trinidad. I hope not Trinidad, Cuba, then the point of this post and its relevance to my blog may well be obliterated. Pearls Before Swine – Cruise Just thought I’d share, as I [...]
Diwali in Guyana
November 10, 2007 – 7:34 am
There is an annual motorcade in Guyana for Diwali (which is supposed to be held on the darkest night of the year as it is the Festival of Lights for Hindus). This year I understand was the most engineered and lit and it was indeed impressive as the 7 or 8 huge vehicles/floats made their [...]
Friday Miscellany
October 19, 2007 – 11:47 am
Checking Voter Registration online Did you know there was a website where you could check your voter registration in Trinidad & Tobago? I don’t know who VoteTTnow is, but they say the information is based on the EBC data. It is really cool, because now I know that I am in one constituency, while the [...]
A slice of macaroni pie
October 9, 2007 – 1:01 pm
A slice of macaroni pie Originally uploaded by Lilandra. I am in Jamaica, where my room is in a strange blackhole receiving deceitful mobile signals and insufficient wireless signal for the office Dell (ohhh, I miss my HP and the dead power adapter that has had me computer and internet deprived for over a week!!!). [...]
A Visit to Curaçao
September 24, 2007 – 10:19 pm
I just returned from a completely unexpected visit to Curaçao, one of the 5 islands of the Netherlands Antilles. The Netherlands Antilles, although being part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is located in the Caribbean Sea, comprising 2 groups if islands: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and [...]
Hurricane Dean
August 21, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Funny how it never occurred to me to postabout prayers and wellwishes for those in the region in the path of Hurricane Dean. I was worried, no doubt there, but I blogging didn’t occur to me… Saint Lucia, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica…now Belize and Mexico are getting battered by a Category 5 hurricane. [...]
Taste T&T 2007
May 28, 2007 – 3:35 pm
Well, I made it to the Taste! Reporting a bit delayed due to travel and no internet. But as Lilandra and TriniGourmet reported, we had a plan, we bought tickets and we made it on the Saturday – May 26 2007. All pictures (not with the D80, as I never had time to read the [...]
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