Hi Everyone,
We have been chatting for several years now, so much so that things have reached the stage where I have to start some of our conversations with one of these phrases: Remember I told you… Last year I shared with you… If you have been reading me for a while… Well this is going to be one of those occasions.
Sometime around October last year, remember I told you about a phone conversation I had with one of my very good Bajan friends, Paula? Among the many things I shared with you was our collective learning about ‘stretch-out’ breadfruit. To quickly recap, stretch-out breadfruit is breadfruit that is boiled and sliced lengthways. Cutting the breadfruit lengthways is why it is called stretch-out breadfruit. The breadfruit can be served boiled, or boiled and then pan-fried and eaten with meat or seafood stews or a fry-up of salt fish or smoked herring.
The breadfruit trees here in BIM are laden with many of the perfectly round, green-skinned fruit. There are certain things in Barbados that are not necessary to be bought (although they are available for sale in supermarkets and at several vendors at the weekly markets). Fresh bay leaves, ripe tamarinds, golden apples, mangoes and breadfruit are
