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Mother’s Day Dinner – Barbecued Ribs and Potato Salad
One hour after returning from my mother's day lunch at a restaurant, someone requested ribs and potato salad for dinner. I am not saying who. It should be criminal to ask a "mom" to cook on mother's day, but apparently withdrawal...
Quick and Easy Carrot Rice Recipe
When I am exhausted after a long day of work (i.e., five days a week, 52 weeks per year), I crave quick and simple meals like this carrot rice recipe! Meals with too many ingredients overwhelm and frustrate me, and...
Trinidad Fried Bake (Fry Bakes) | Floats
Trini Fried Bake is a beloved staple in Trinidadian cuisine, known for its fluffy inside and golden, crispy exterior. Despite the name, fried bake is a soft, slightly chewy flatbread that's fried to perfection. It’s incredibly versatile, often served as...
Trinidad Tomatoes and Saltfish
This dish of tomatoes and saltfish or 'saltfish and tomatoes', garlic, fresh thyme, scallions, and onions is so addicting, that there will be no leftovers for the next day! Easy Like A Sunday Morning Served with Trinidadian Fried Bake, it's comfort food...
Trinidad Vacation – 2011
In my absence I visited my home-country, the beautiful island of Trinidad. ...and experienced a beautiful sunset at Maracas Beach, one of the most popular beaches on the island. After, I feasted on the world famous Trinidad fried bake and...
Super Sunday French Toast
It's called Super Sunday French Toast because if you decide to vegetate or procrastinate and accomplish nothing else for the rest of the day(except religiously check "friends" statuses or look at pics after pics of total strangers on FB), it's still...
My name is Jan and they named January after me
As I mentioned on my Facebook page, I am working on several recipes but wanted to share this story with you in the meantime. This morning I had the pleasure of meeting Jan. Driving back home (around 9 am) from the fish market,...
Cilantro and/or Parsley Shrimp with Pasta
I made this garlic herb shrimp pasta on Saturday for a quick lunch. Aside from the photography and measuring(which I am trying to get used to), this Garlic Herb Shrimp Pasta is usually pretty simple, quick to prepare, and light--no heavy...
Farmhouse Apple Cake
I found this delicious Apple Cake recipe in a local newspaper a few weeks ago. Erica Marcus of Newsday couldn't be more precise in her description that "this thin, elegant dessert [adapted from four seasons of Italian Cooking by A.J. Battafarano] is between a cake and a...











