Which shall it be? Gulab Jamoon, Sawine, Barfi, Nankathai, Halwa, Maleeda…cake and cookies…ice cream…currants rolls, sweetbread, basboosa, baklava…what are you making? what are you looking forward to enjoying at Muslim homes this Eid? Have a list? Have you bought ingredients, started mixing, setting aside insect-free zones for storage? What’s on your Eid sweet menu this [...]
Category Archives: food
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 [...]
Baigani Recipe
October 3, 2007 – 4:24 pm
Here again I post another recipe involving baigan (eggplant, aubergine, melongene etc), even though, to be honest, baigan isn’t actually something I love. I don’t think I am unique in this attitude to baigan, my culinary blogger friend Cynthia talked about that in a recent post and column. I love apparently, many recipes using baigan. [...]
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 [...]
Kibbe Recipe
September 18, 2007 – 2:29 pm
KIBBE
This is one of the Syrian dishes that our family grew up with, courtesy Mom and her father. We generally make it for certain occasions, such as ‘Id, or when some family member who hasn’t had it in a while returns home. While it may be common food in parts of the Middle East, [...]
Down South to England, Part I
August 26, 2007 – 12:43 pm
Where Chennette visits London.
I traveled from Edinburgh to London by train. A trip that’s a little less than 5 hours and one I have taken only a couple times before. Whenever I tell people at home that I studied in Scotland, or the UK, if they haven’t been to Scotland, they tend to assume that [...]
Edinburgh, a visit home
August 22, 2007 – 12:05 am
Edinburgh, my home for a year, was my first port of call. I arrived after about 26 hours of traveling on 3 planes and 1 train. Not counting starting the trip from Guyana the day before. I always travel from these long trips out of Trinidad, which is still my homebase. If only I’d taken [...]
The Alton Brown Burger
August 18, 2007 – 1:55 pm
The plan was to blog, ever so briefly about my vacation, or even try to clear some of the backlog of posts I have started. But, you know the enthusiasm comes for the most recent activity. In this case, that’s the making of the Good Eats burger, courtesy my favourite person on the Food Network [...]
Fry Aloo Recipe
July 26, 2007 – 8:09 am
I am still on vacation, but my hosts in Glasgow left me home alone with the computer and internet. And TriniGourmet forwarded a request to me a few days ago for a recipe for fry aloo which is a staple accompaniment to sada roti in Trinidad. I love this dish, although in most incarnations [...]
Some Food From Guyana
July 11, 2007 – 1:47 am
While this is not really one of those draft posts awaiting publication, I thought as I was going on vacation out of the region, I could highlight a few dishes I have had recently that are part of my Guyanese foodie experience. I think I have previously delivered somewhat of an ode to my favourite [...]
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