Category Archives: Snacks
Banana Bread
I’ve never bought bananas to make Banana Bread with, I’ve always just used what bananas we didn’t eat that started to get over-ripe. Not to be confused with Banana cake, it’s the one yeast free bread that you can make as healthy or as decadent as you want. I make a modest Banana bread, nothingContinue reading “Banana Bread”
Caribbean Butter Flaps or Coco Bread
This bread is popular Caribbean-wide, Jamaicans call it coco bread because sometimes it’s made with coconut milk and grated coconut. You can replace coconut milk with any other milk to make this bread and just call it a butter flap. This bread was a scarce treat as my mom and aunts don’t like butter. IContinue reading “Caribbean Butter Flaps or Coco Bread”
Salted Codfish (Bacalao) and Bakes (Floats, Jonny cakes)
Salted cod fish is a favorite in the Caribbean. In restaurants and bars and snackets you can find bakes stuffed with either codfish or corned beef. The Fish has been preserved in salt and most times doesn’t even need to be refrigerated. It’s so salty that it needs to be boiled several times to removedContinue reading “Salted Codfish (Bacalao) and Bakes (Floats, Jonny cakes)”
Cinnamon and Sultana Scrolls
Ingredients Dough 2 Cups Plain Flour 1 Packet instant yeast 1 tsp Salt 1/2 cup sugar 1 Egg 1 Cup milk 200g Melted butter Spread: 200g room temp butter, cinnamon powder, all-spice, brown sugar, 1 cup of sultanas How I did it Video: Form your dough and let rise for 1 hour, covered in aContinue reading “Cinnamon and Sultana Scrolls”
Baked Barbeque Chicken Wings – Video
Caribbean fried bakes (fried dumplin) – Johnny Cake
Growing up in the Caribbean, at my home, when there is no bread we make bakes. That’s usually a Sunday when the Bakery is closed. We buy our bread fresh from the bakery every day in the Caribbean, as kids our baker, Mr. Oscar would give us dough, and mom would let us fry itContinue reading “Caribbean fried bakes (fried dumplin) – Johnny Cake”
Banana Pudding
Something nice to have during summer. An American creamy desert. I love banana Pudding, it has everything that I love about sweet creamy deserts. Fruit, cream and custard. Elements Ripe Bananas The Biscuit Vanilla Pudding Whipped Cream Ripe Bananas Pick 6 sweet firm ripe bananas. Slice thinly and place aside The Biscuit Traditionally in theContinue reading “Banana Pudding”
Nepalese Vegetarian Momos (Dumplins)
I started looking into making Perogies and decided to try this dumplin dish first. I was listening to a blog on Spotify and the speaker had a guest on who had an intersting experience with some perogies and made comments of how good they were. I’d never heard of perogies before, so googled them andContinue reading “Nepalese Vegetarian Momos (Dumplins)”
Grande Mangeur 