Category Archives: recipes
I made whole wheat hops bread from Mom’s recipe, posted by Lilandra with modifications for whole wheat provided by Mom over the phone. Mom and Lilandra also made up a batch of wholewheat, so I expect Lilandra will has posted the adjusted recipe and her own pictures very soon.
Hops is a traditional Trini bread, crusty [...]
I’ve been thinking about posting on dhal for a long time now, but Cynthia (of Tastes Like Home) did a dhal post last year, called Dal, Dhal, Dahl together with her column. Since she’s Guyanese, I find it strange that she left out the “Dholl” spelling that so captures the rounded vowel and emphasis of her [...]
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. [...]
I clearly have not been a prolific blogger so far for 2008, but I have stuck to my intention to cook more, read more food blogs and where possible combine the two activities. This all became easier once I settled into my new apartment and more convenient spaces. I suppose it has helped that my [...]
A couple months ago the Trini Gourmet posted about her forays into making Trinidad Kachourie, a fried delicacy from the Indo-Trini background, available wherever doubles and sahinas and baiganis are sold. Trini Kachourie is a like a fritter made from ground yellow split-peas (or our dhal) or even chick peas, and seasoned with the usual [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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