Tastes Like Home

As someone who mostly eats vegetarian during the week, leaving the weekends to unleash the carnivore in me, there are times during the week when I just crave a piece of meat.

It’s the beginning of tomato season. Various sizes and shapes of the red plump fruit are piled high on stands; pieces of cardboard with their price per pound crookedly stuck between or at the side of them.

It’s not granola but it is easy to see how it can be part of the family of granola.

On my plate this week is Jamaica’s national dish, Ackee & Salt Fish.

It’s the season of Lent – the period of 40 days leading up to Easter.

The feasting and celebration of the year of the Dragon has begun!

To all concerned: please stop telling people to burn the curry.

Last weekend I bought some yams and eddoes. While there are several dishes I could have made with them, I opted to make a Choka with each.

What’s Cooking is a series in which I answer questions and share advice about food and cooking that you may have but are too shy to ask.

Like Coconut Drops? Well, prepare to love this version and make it your new recipe of this ole time favourite.

Tastes Like Home is 17 years old today. There are certain conversations that seem to be a right of passage to indulge in when we attain a certain age – body aches and pains, energy, weight, and our diet.

It seems almost obligatory as the year ends for us to look back as we look forward.

Wanna have Garlic Pork to eat in the morning but can’t because you decided too late to set it?

So folks, in a week’s time, it will be the eve of the day!

There are lots of things for us to remember as the holidays approach, particularly in the area of food, however, I have identified 12 things that I think we all can benefit from with a reminder.

Let’s gyaff! What are you thinking about for the Christmas menu?

Well, truth be told, it’s oven time all year round in the Caribbean, although I know that many of us took a break from this cooking appliance during the heatwave we experienced for weeks this year.

Want chicken that’s flavoursome, finger-licking and succulent? Then cook it in a pot on the stovetop, low and slow.

On the occasion of every holiday, particularly religious ones – Hindu, Muslim, Christian – I get homesick.

A week from today, we will be celebrating Diwali. There will be lights.