Food

[boatme99]

This morning I made some quick french toast

I used some nice Puerto Rican sweetbread I found on the sale rack at Wally world.

2 12" french bread style loaves, only 79¢.
It's like Portuguese Sweet bread without the yellow dye. Very tasty.

[boatme99]

Cuban marinade for a pork loin tonight.
Cubano sandwiches next week!

[Henry Krinkle]

Love a good cubano sammy.

[boatme99]

I had my first one when I moved to the Keys years ago. I thought, how have I never heard of these!

[boatme99]

Just some quick raspberry orange pancakes, this morning

[Henry Krinkle]

A tiny sampling of the Caribbean food I ate.

Ackee saltfish, festival and spinach pretending to be callaloo. The saltfish was really good, the festival good and the fake callaloo was disgusting. I saw it around a lot but never put it anywhere near my face again.



Caribbean style fried chicken with an orange marmalade hot sauce, conch fritter. Conch fritter was excellent, chicken was quite good. Also rice and peas and for a non-Caroibbean twist, caesar salad, heavy on the anchovies. Apparently the conch population around Antigua is still pretty good. I even saw quite a few while diving.



Rightish to leftish: Fungee, conch fritter, chopup and below it saltfish without ackee, ducana. The salt fish was fantastic. It seems like Antiguans in general do a better job with saltfish than Jamaicans. Granted, it's a small sampling. One puts saltfish and chopup on fungee, which is a sort of polenta type thing, and eats it altogether. The ducana is made from sweet potato and coconut and flavoured with allspice and mace. Really tasty.




The pork rib and the chicken were well cooked and were done on an open wood fire so they are better than many sauced BBQ items, but really just OK. The chile beans were a bit of a disappointment but the corn was a freaking revelation! steamed/ poached in milk with allspice, nutmeg and bay leaf. SO good, I ate there again just for the corn.



Also had curry chicken roti, goat curry, oxtail stew, Caribbean spiced mahi-mahi, various seafood prepartions, boiled banana, fried green plantain, banana fritters and so much more.

[Henry Krinkle]

This is from a couple of days ago. I am not sure one could eat a more " Saskatchewan meal" than this. Flame seared elk medallions and wild rice.

[Raza]

A tiny sampling of the Caribbean food I ate.

Ackee saltfish, festival and spinach pretending to be callaloo. The saltfish was really good, the festival good and the fake callaloo was disgusting. I saw it around a lot but never put it anywhere near my face again.



Caribbean style fried chicken with an orange marmalade hot sauce, conch fritter. Conch fritter was excellent, chicken was quite good. Also rice and peas and for a non-Caroibbean twist, caesar salad, heavy on the anchovies. Apparently the conch population around Antigua is still pretty good. I even saw quite a few while diving.



Rightish to leftish: Fungee, conch fritter, chopup and below it saltfish without ackee, ducana. The salt fish was fantastic. It seems like Antiguans in general do a better job with saltfish than Jamaicans. Granted, it's a small sampling. One puts saltfish and chopup on fungee, which is a sort of polenta type thing, and eats it altogether. The ducana is made from sweet potato and coconut and flavoured with allspice and mace. Really tasty.




The pork rib and the chicken were well cooked and were done on an open wood fire so they are better than many sauced BBQ items, but really just OK. The chile beans were a bit of a disappointment but the corn was a freaking revelation! steamed/ poached in milk with allspice, nutmeg and bay leaf. SO good, I ate there again just for the corn.



Also had curry chicken roti, goat curry, oxtail stew, Caribbean spiced mahi-mahi, various seafood prepartions, boiled banana, fried green plantain, banana fritters and so much more.

Wow, most of that looks amazing. The last time I was in the Caribbean, I was a kid; I did not appreciate local foods the way I do now.

[Raza]

This is from a couple of days ago. I am not sure one could eat a more " Saskatchewan meal" than this. Flame seared elk medallions and wild rice.

I've had elk before, but never elk medallions. I have this place I get elk burgers from and they always get raves from people who try them. I love me some elk.

[Henry Krinkle]

Wow, most of that looks amazing. The last time I was in the Caribbean, I was a kid; I did not appreciate local foods the way I do now.

I think most of us didn't. Anywhere I went all I wanted was chilli.