In Good Taste

For big meals like Sunday lunch and holidays, I am always a little stumped as to what to serve as a salad with the meal.

Three weeks ago in my Tastes Like Home column, Nuttier for Coconuts, in celebration of all this coconut, I mentioned making potato pie and using fresh homemade coconut cream instead of dairy cream to make the pie.

A bowl or plate of rice cooked well with simple ingredients is a very satisfying meal.

If you’re looking for a different way of cooking potatoes this Diwali, then try this South-Indian version that is generally served with Poori (which I talked about yesterday in Tastes Like Home.

We are currently in the tail end of the avocado/pear season.

A couple of years ago, in my Tastes Like Home column, I had written about my experiments using hardened coconut oil (liquid coconut oil that solidified when refrigerated) to replace butter in pastries, cakes and other treats like scones and biscuits.

You might not think of lamb when it comes to making a quick dish but you should because it totally works; and if you have a pressure cooker, even better.

Boil and fry is one of my favourite ways to cook and eat green plantains.

This dish of pasta and chicken is another one of those dishes where the food is made fast.

Whenever I go out to breakfast or brunch, I ignore the bread, bagels and pancakes and head straight to the breakfast potatoes.

These buns are a celebration of baked Char Siu Bao. Char Siu Bao is Chinese barbeque pork bun.

Are you enjoying the bounty of in-season avocado? I hope so.

Have you ever noticed how good okra, saijan and mangoes taste when dropped into a bubbling pot of curry?

In last week’s edition of Tastes Like Home, I mentioned a watermelon cocktail I had at the home of friends.

The term ‘fried’ in this recipe refers to the style of cooking we Guyanese employ when we talk about cooking vegetables – fried pumpkin, fried callaloo etc.

Dips and spreads make for easy snacking, creating sandwiches, and for impromptu entertaining.

Tomato Choka is usually made with ripe, red, firm, juicy tomatoes, however, green tomatoes make excellent choka too.

The combination of canned corned beef and pasta is another one of those food-fast dishes.

The market here (in Barbados) is rife with orange-flesh sweet potatoes.

Even though we live in a tropical environment all year round, we do feel the effects of the changing weather systems throughout the year.