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 [...]
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CLICK: The Yolk
October 20, 2007 – 5:15 pm
CLICK is a new food photography event, started by Bee & Jai of Jugalbandi. It’s theme based, inviting entries every month based on a culinary ingredient or concept. October 2007 is the first month and I am just about making the deadline of October 20! As part of my goal of focusing a bit more [...]
Celebrating ‘Id ul Fitr
October 19, 2007 – 1:31 am
It’s a bit later than I intended, but given a choice between restfully enjoying Eid at home in Trinidad and using precious hours and the family bandwidth to blog…I chose the celebration But we took pictures, so there would always be time to blog at our leisure. Lilandra beat me to it anyway. Darned work. [...]
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 [...]
Glasgow, “Scotland with Style”
August 30, 2007 – 2:51 pm
Where Chennette visits Glasgow, and ends her vacation. And the vacation blogging. There’s always a football match going on in Glasgow. Loads of people crowding into and singing on the Metro. Chanting and drumming on the streets. Kilts, tams and red wigs flowing around and almost overtaking the tourists. And visibly increased police presence. Every [...]
Down South to England, Part II
August 26, 2007 – 2:04 pm
Where Chennette visits Cambridge and the family Ewe. Part of my London trip involved a day trip to Cambridge to visit Ewe and her family. Especially to visit with the new Baby Boo. I took the tube all by myself from Stratford to Liverpool Street, where there were hourly trains to Cambridge at a special [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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