10 Ideas to Stretch Your Wedding Food Budget
Here are 10 ideas to stretch your wedding food budget. If saving money is what you want, so you have […]
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How to Make An Easy Roucou Liquid
You may have noticed me mentioning this word (roucou) when I posted the cornmeal pastelle recipe a few weeks ago. So I
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Pastelle Press Plan
This is a simple plan you can use to make a pastelle press. I decided to draw it because I
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Trini Sayings
Trini sayings are a collection of idioms and Trini proverbs that has been passed down from generation to generation. Most
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How to make Browning Trini Style
I can’t really call this a recipe but rather a technique. Browning is really caramelized sugar and water that is
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Cream of Tartar: Usage, Substitutions and Benefits
Here’s some useful information on cream of tartar you would find most interesting. Cream of tartar is also called potassium
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Folklore of Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, with its diverse cultures, is also rich with folklore stories and superstitions that have been passed on
About Mangoes
Mangoes are the sweetest fruits around and are always plentiful when in season. Where I live mangoes grow everywhere: in
Homemade Coconut Oil – Trini Style
I never thought I would cook with coconut oil. For many years, I have been hearing and reading only negative
Green Seasoning: A Special Caribbean Ingredient
The Secret Ingredient Today’s recipe, is Green Seasoning which, to me, is the real secret behind our Trini cooking. The
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Best Way: How to Make a Swizzle Stick
Are you interested in learning how to make a Swizzle Stick? Today, you will learn how to make one with
How to make a Dhal Gutney
If you like your dhal almost pureed, you most likely know that the dhal gutney is the best tool for
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The Amazing Pastelle Press
A pastelle press is available in many sizes and is made of wood or plastic. It is inexpensive as well.
10 Useful Cooking Utensils Used in Caribbean Cooking
In every kitchen there are a number of basic cooking utensils that are necessary for everyday cooking. When it comes
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Iron Pot
The heavy cast iron pot (cooking) is also called a caldero or caldron. This main pot is similar to the
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Popular Tobago Sayings (Proverbs from the islands)
People may think that us Trinis and Tobagonians speak the same type of creole, but that isn’t so. We are
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About Tobago
Tobago is part of the unitary state of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago.The name is Carib in origin
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Carnival Lime
Well we’re back again with another installment to the blog. This time is very hectic, of course, because of the
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The Herbs We Use….No not that one!
Taste is very important to us when we’re cooking. No dish is complete without the tasty aroma of the many
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The Trini Creole: Our Peculiar twist on English.
Oh geed!…Yuh fada is ah glassmaker? He jus’ cat spraddle dry so. To the untrained inexperienced ear these words may
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A Handy and Convenient Cooking Equivalents and Substitutions
A Handy List of Cooking Equivalents and Substitutions This list of cooking equivalents and substitutions will help you convert any
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New Years Day: A Day Well Spent
Quality family time reached its climax on New Year’s Day for me. There was no better way to spend the