Making Dough – Pt. 1
Hi Everyone, We’ve all been there – trying to make dough for breads, roti(s) or bakes and being frustrated by not knowing exactly how much water to use, or, following the suggested amount of water stipulated in a recipe only to end up with an overly sticky mass or with loose dry bits of something [...]
The taste of water
Hi Everyone, Ever wonder why you love the Coca Cola in one country but can’t stand the taste of it elsewhere? Ever wonder why you prefer certain beers? Ever wonder why the pizza in one place tastes different from another place? Ever wonder why the same international brands of items taste different from one country [...]
Feel up your food
Hi Everyone, Happy New Year! Today is the 6th birthday of this column! My, we have been chatting for a long time. I hope that the holiday season has been a good one for you, your family and loved ones. In the first column of 2010, I had asked that we all focus on freshness, [...]
My memorable 12
Hi Everyone, I cooked this year but not as much as you would think, due to a rather hectic travel and work schedule. The times that I did cook, I found myself looking for simple or quick and easy things to make. While travelling, I had a few memorable dishes that I was excited to [...]
Feasting at Christmas
Hi Everyone, By the time you read this, the Pepperpot would have been made, the garlic pork set, the ham defrosted and possibly baked, the sorrel and ginger beer made and the Christmas cake, baked. The mutton and duck would have been ordered and perhaps collected. Christmas is here. One of the very many things [...]
Serve a different meal this holiday
Hi Everyone, Though the holidays are all about traditions, as they should be, there is nothing wrong with shaking things up. One of the main reasons that people are always scouring cookbooks, blogs, magazines and other publications for ideas for the holidays is because they want to shake up the routine. They want to mix [...]
Garlicky Pork
Hi Everyone, It is traditional at this time of the year that we have large hunks of meat as roasts, especially for the large family gatherings. But this year, when liming, I want to serve up some serious cutters in the form of garlicky pork. No, this is not the traditional type of Guyanese garlic [...]
The market meet-up pt. 2P
Hi Everyone, You will recall last month (October), I invited you to a meet-up so that we could go eat at the Stabroek Market Cook Shops and show support for this vibrant part of Guyana’s street-food culture. Quite a few people turned up, but not as Bajans say, “a mob o’ton of people”. I think [...]
Bread made easy
Hi Everyone, ● Do you like making bread? ● Are you intimidated by the traditional process of having to knead and proof the dough twice? ● Do you want to be able to make bread in an hour? If you answer is yes, yes and yes. Then read on my friend! I promise that this [...]
Get a grip and show me your motion
Hi Everyone, I love my rubber spatula. Lest one becomes jealous of the other, let me say that I love my rubber spatulas. I have a small collection and honestly, you know when you love something or someone so much and they have been so good to you, that you can’t remember life before them? [...]
A celebration of simplicity: Egg Fried Rice
Hi Everyone, Let me start with a cliché – with apologies to all English teachers the world over – “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” The other day I heard that there is still a stigma attached to buying Egg Fried Rice. A friend told me that there are still people [...]
A cooking and eating dilemma
Hi Everyone, When I originally came up with the concept of Tastes Like Home, it was because I was missing the foods from home – Guyana. Over the years, the missing of the food has changed because many of the ingredients I missed are now readily available in Barbados, even if not always in the [...]
Devilishly Delicious eggs
Hi Everyone, Mention Devilled Eggs (aka Stuffed Eggs) for the menu of a social gathering these days and some people roll their eyes. “That is so yesterday,” they say. “They’re too old fashioned.” Others think they are tacky. However, put them on a buffet table, and they’re the first thing to disappear! When I was [...]
Impromptu cooking
Hi Everyone, have you ever noticed how great food tastes when it’s a dish you didn’t plan or don’t quite have the ingredients for it, or you just threw it together on the spur of the moment? And have you ever noticed that if you try to replicate it, the dish itself or the flavour, [...]
Take sea salt health claims with a grain of salt!
Hi Everyone, The salt war has come home. Last week, Canadian Professor of Nephrology, Euan Carlisle, while responding to a question about the possible cause of the large number of renal failure cases in Guyana (at the opening of The Doobay Renal Centre), said that a contributing factor might be that our diets are loaded [...]