Hi Everyone,
All right, brace yourself, today I am going to ask you to do something that may go against a practice you have been doing all your life, and one that you would have seen done by parents and grandparents long before you ever started cooking. At first, I too was skeptical, but it works, it really does work. Next time you want to cook salt fish, don’t boil it or soak it in boiling water to remove the salt, rather, soak it in regular cold tap water for 12 – 24 hours and you will be rewarded with perfectly de-salted salt fish that is tender, and easy to flake, to prepare in a variety of ways.
In February of this year, friends of mine were visiting from Canada – Guyanese immigrants – Roy and Monica. I fondly refer to them as RoMo. Roy is a cook-man, and in Guyanese parlance, it means that he can cook, he likes to cook, he boasts of his cooking. Whenever RoMo visits and Roy starts talking about food and his cooking exploits (which he does often), I keep my mouth shut and listen; the cook-man is in full form!
I cooked dinner for them one night when they were here in Barbados. They love okra as much as I do, so okra and salt fish was one of the many dishes on the menu. In an earlier discussion about the delights of salt fish, Roy revealed that a friend of his in
