Cynthia Nelson

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, “Will the Garlic Pork taste as good as you claim?”

Hi Everyone, Room temperature is a term used often in the preparation and cooking of certain foods, but what exactly does it mean?

Hi Everyone, Have you had your guava today? Do not miss out on the chance of have one of nature’s best gifts, especially when it’s in season.

Hi Everyone, Open your cupboard and bring out the spice jars – let’s make some Cardamom Bread and Fish Molee.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I ran myself ragged this past Tuesday in search of a pot in which to scald milk.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Are you like me – do you give your best friends and loved ones a list of food to bring when they’re coming to visit from overseas, especially if they are coming from home?

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I am rich with the bounty of the season!

Tastes Like Home I’m in love with Basil – the herb not the man.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, It’s Scottish. No, it’s Indian. It’s British.

Tastes Like home Hi Everyone, Beyond the shores of the Caribbean, when the term “Caribbean cuisine” is used it is often used to refer to the slices of mangoes adorning a plate, or a wedge of pineapple on the rim of a cocktail glass.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, Conversations that trigger a memory of one’s upbringing and how it has influenced or impacted our lives often yield two reactions – we marvel at the freedom some people had or we are astonished by the discipline enforced.

Hi Everyone, It peels just as easily, it cooks faster and it can be prepared very much the same way as you’d prepare the English potato – baked, boiled, mashed, sautéed and even be made into to chips and fries.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I haven’t made or eaten chicken salad in ages.

Hi Everyone, Whenever I travel abroad, whether for business or pleasure, I always have a list of things that I’d like to eat or to try.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, A few months after completing my cookbook, I spent several weeks with a friend in the USA and of course, I cooked.

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, I made pizza for the first time several weeks ago and marvelled at how well it turned out.

Tastes Like Home – Fond recollections as I eat Hi Everyone, Have you ever sat down to a meal and as you are eating, you think of others – be they family or friends – that you think might enjoy the meal and wish that they were there to share it with you?

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, What’s your steak preference – ribeye, strip, flank, sirloin, porterhouse, t-bone, prime rib…?

Tastes Like Home Hi Everyone, When I wrote three weeks ago asking whether Barbados and Guyana can meet on a plate, a friend and regular reader, commented, “There’s always going to be tension on these issues, as people think their national identity will change…” I completely understand the fear.

Tastes Like Home (Iraqi-style Beef and Vegetable Stew) Hi Everyone, Me: It’s a great meal to entertain with, it’s vegetables and meat, it comes with a sauce and you can serve it with steamed Basmati Rice.