This post, Top 10 Vegan Veggie Recipes in Trinidad will provide you with meal ideas and a list of Trini favorites for when you need to add more vegan or vegetarian dishes to your normal meal rotations. Diwali will be celebrated this year on October [continue reading]

“This oven bbq chicken is the simplest thing you can put together–preparation is super easy, using simple ingredients and the result is moist, flavorful, and absolutely mouth-watering.” Happy Wednesday! Can you believe that January is almost over? Where did the time go? Here in NYC [continue reading]

curry , STOP! You have found the best Trinidad Doubles Recipe! As I get ready to end this year strong and set goals for the new year, I thought that I should post just one more recipe on the blog! Even though this recipe was [continue reading]

Sadly, all good things come to an end except my blogging of course. The activity- and action-packed days of summer are now a refreshing memory. My annual Fourth of July BBQ, a family vacation in exquisite Turks and Caicos, elaborate birthday parties, graduation parties, potlucks, [continue reading]

  Summer has bid us farewell. School is back in session. I have no vivid recollection of activities that occurred between the start of summer and the beginning of the school session. I know I worked maybe just a little too much and I’m getting [continue reading]

Aloo pie is fried dough filled with savory mashed potatoes that’s seasoned simply with bandhania (culantro), cumin, onion and garlic.   This snack (or meal) is right up there in popularity with doubles, saheena, pholourie,dhal pholourie, kachori and bake and shark.  My fish pie and [continue reading]

Chicken Puffs: Pâte à choux, a light pastry dough, is filled with savory, flavorful chicken paste.   It’s been a rough year thus far, and I expect the turbulence to continue for another twelve months. Corporate mergers and acquisitions, downsizing, increased workload, learning new systems, unrelenting deadlines, [continue reading]

Growing up, pumpkin talkari and dost roti (a layered roti) was one of my absolute favorite meals! Strangely enough, it is also my 10 year old daughter’s favorite meal as well. In my recipe below, cubes of pumpkin are sautéed with the simplest of ingredients; [continue reading]

“These brownies are not too fudgy, not too stick to your enamels chewy, not too cakey, but are moist, chocolaty, with just the right texture (pour moi)….and divine” December is a ridiculously busy month with year-end chaos at work, decluttering my home in preparation for [continue reading]

Channa is also known as chickpeas, garbanzo beans, or ceci beans. Aloo, on the other hand, is what we Trinidadians refer to as potato. Hence the term curry channa and aloo. In this dish, channa and aloo are simmered in a fragrant curry sauce flavored [continue reading]

In this simple recipe, a raw half ripe mango is pureed with garlic, bandania (culantro) and hot pepper(s) to create an exotic blend of flavors. Mango chutney is traditionally enjoyed with pholourie or saheena (deep fried fritters made with chickpea flour and/or regular flour), but I was inspired [continue reading]

  Dhal is to Trinidad what split pea soup is to the rest of the world. Dried split peas are cooked with sufficient water, turmeric, garlic and a whole hot pepper until the dhal is tender. It is then swizzled to create a smooth, creamy [continue reading]