Pork

This Easy Spicy Chow Mein Recipe proves that some of the best meals don’t begin with a plan. They come together because you’re hungry, you have a package of noodles in the pantry, and a few ingredients waiting in the refrigerator. That was exactly the [continue reading]

Since making Curry Short Ribs with Zucchini in 2025, I have not been able to leave short ribs alone. There is something about that cut —the soft bone in the middle, the ratio of meat to bone, the tenderness of the cooked meat that feels [continue reading]

This Curry Short Ribs with Zucchini brings together melt-in-your-mouth short ribs, tender zucchini, and a fragrant Trinidad-style curry base. It’s hearty enough for Sunday lunch, yet simple enough for a weekday dinner—the kind of dish that feels both comforting and familiar. The zucchini softens and [continue reading]

Sunday, December 7th was one of those end-of-year Sundays when everything feels busy and slow at the same time. I had been out Christmas shopping for most of the morning and came home starving. Luckily, the pork belly had already been marinating in the fridge [continue reading]

Note: using last year’s pic until I can download pics from this year’s meal. Stay Tuned. More pics to come! Thanksgiving never arrives suddenly in my home. It gathers itself quietly in the weeks before — in the steady cleaning, the reorganizing, the mental checklists, [continue reading]

Trinidad Garlic Pork — A Christmas Tradition Rooted in Memory Trinidad Garlic Pork carries the unmistakable spirit of a Trinidad Christmas. The sharpness of vinegar, the warmth of garlic, the perfume of thyme and bandhania — all of it signals the start of the holiday [continue reading]

This Week’s Story & How the Menu Came Together Some Sunday lunches arrive softly, almost choosing themselves. But Week 46 came from a different place — a blend of necessity, Thanksgiving prep, unfinished recipe work, and that spark of creativity that lights up my kitchen [continue reading]

This pot of Jamaican Stew Peas with Salted Pigtail came together as part of my Sunday Lunch Week 43 series, and honestly, it was inevitable. All month long, my social media feeds had been flooded with plates of this exact dish—glossy red beans swimming in [continue reading]

Craving Comfort—A Slow Simmered Sunday Some Sundays are guided by tradition, others by inspiration — and for Sunday Lunch Week 43, it was a craving that refused to fade. All month I’d been seeing bowls of Jamaican Stew Peas with Pigtail scroll past on my [continue reading]

There’s a quiet joy in the first pot of soup that ushers in fall or winter. For Sunday Lunch Week 39, I made a rich and creamy corn soup with pigtails, layered with the sweetness of fresh seasonal corn and the savoriness of salted meat [continue reading]