Tastes Like Home

Hi Everyone, So I felt like eating pancakes. I spied the apples on the counter top and began to think about how I could incorporate the apples into the pancakes.

Hi Everyone, Cooking is simple. Cooking is easy. Cooking is quick.

Hi Everyone, All rice is not created equal. Therefore, all rice is not cooked with the same water to rice ratio or using the same cooking methods.

Hi Everyone, last month, I received an email from my editor at Stabroek News, in which she relayed the contents of a letter sent to the newspaper.

Hi Everyone, When it comes to food, I do not have secrets.

Hi Everyone, people the length and breath of the Caribbean have a serious love for smoked Herring aka red Herring.

Hi Everyone, If there is one thing that you must have when you make a trip to the land of the humming bird, Trinidad and Tobago, it is bake and shark.

Hi Everyone, A few weeks ago, I received a request for a recipe for Cheese Pie, “the kind that sells at Salt and Pepper.”

Hi Everyone, a plate of boil and fry of any ground provision or a combination thereof is so satisfying that all you need is one meal of it and you are set to go for a very long time – sometimes an entire day!

Hi Everyone, the recipe I get the most requests for is dhal puri.

Hi Everyone, if you like Raisin Bread, then be prepared to love Antigua’s Raisin Bun.

Hi Everyone, After all the pancake-talk last week, did you make any?

Hi Everyone, Bring out the pans, the tawahs and the griddles, it’s time to mix the pancake batter and spread it, swirl it or drop it!

Hi Everyone, I’ve fallen in love, With beets. Food can be like people sometimes – you see them often, but never pay attention.

Hi Everyone, I have an idea to share with you. While it may not be original, I think I can safely say that perhaps many of you never thought of doing it.

Hi Everyone, on the morning of Wednesday, November 21, 2007, I received an email from an avid reader of this column and my blog.

Hi Everyone, Food never fails to surprise. You could have been eating a particular dish over and over again throughout your life and yet every time you eat it, new flavour dimensions are discovered.

Hi Everyone, This is a fresh column. It is the first for 2011 but I do not plan to bandy words such as vegetables, vegetarian, diet and healthy.

Hi Everyone, This week, we conclude our 3-part Holiday Baking Suc-cess series by discussing the ham.

Part 2 Hi Everyone, this week, we continue our Holiday Baking Success series by looking at the all-important Christmas cake.