Ital Soup A Vegetarian Delight.
I’ll be honest and confess that I have little experience cooking Ital food (no salt, no meat.. usually not for me), but I’ve had several requests over the past few months and a friend of…
View ArticleStewed Pumpkin With Shrimp.
Like okra, pumpkin is one of those things I’m only just starting to really appreciate. Pumpkin is heavily used throughout the Caribbean to add extra body to stews and soups, in desserts like cassava pone…
View ArticleTasty Vegetarian Mashed Yams.
Did you know that the tuber most people outside the Caribbean call yams are really a milder sweet potato? On the islands we have several varieties of yams and in this recipe I’ll be using…
View ArticleJamaican Callaloo And Swiss Chard A Wicked Vegetarian Combination.
With both Jamaican callaloo (aka amaranth, callaloo, chorai or bhagi) and Swiss chard both in abundance in my garden this summer, I thought I’d combine them both for a delicious vegetarian recipe....
View ArticleVegetarian Stir Fry Bodi (yard beans) With Cashews.
As a young fella on the islands, my brother and I usually helped mom with the kitchen garden after school and on the weekends. I enjoyed seeing plants go from seeds to actually bearing fruit and harvest…
View ArticleHow To Cook Dasheen Bush Bhagi (vegetarian & gluten free).
Dasheen Bush is basically the leaves (usually the tender ones) of the Dasheen plant (Taro) which is used mainly in the Southern Caribbean for making Callaloo or as in this case, stewed down on it's own...
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