
Lower the fire and add the rest of the onions and shallots, tomato paste and pepper to taste. Using a pressure cooker, place the meat and half of the tomato paste, shallots, onions and oil into the cooker and allow the conch meat and seasonings to cook for 30-45 minutes.Īdd hot water to provide moisture as needed.Īfter 30-40 minutes, add 1 gallon boiling water, covering meat and close cover securely with regulator in place.Ĭook for an hour until the meat is tender. Using a meat mallet, pound the conch until tenderized.Ĭlean the meat thoroughly with the lime and/or sour orange juice. Place cakes on a greased cookie baking sheet. If mixture is too wet add a little flour to make it manageable. Heat drain and add 8oz melted butter, nutmeg and cream.įorm mixture into ball, press slightly between palm. Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease cookie sheet with butter. I will now share my recipe for Hot Sweet Yellow Yam Cakes and Lombi(Stewed Conch): Sorrel, Rum punch, Port Wine, Fruit Punch

Mango Ice Cream, Pineapple Upside down Cake, Black Cake, cassava pone Roast Beef and vegetables (Carrots, Celerey, Brussels sprouts) Spicy Fricassee of Rooster Or (Coq au Vin) Steam Doctor Fish Jamaican hard dough breadįive Spice Parsley, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, chickpeas salad with honey mustard dressing Steam Okra/ Pack Choy with garlic and olive oil Roast Breadfruit boats stuffed with Ackee and Salfish Spicy Shad with sautéed grape tomatoes and sweet peppers Jelly Black Rice with cashew and baby Lima Beans


Roasted leg of Goat with Scotch Bonnet /red onions Breakfast menus will invariable continue into lunch.ĭinner will usually consists of the following dishes: Roast beef, potato salad, rice and peas, curried goat, stewed fowl, jerk chicken, jerk pork, pot roast pork shoulder, roast turkey, green salad, macaroni pie, yellow Yam balls, potato au gratin.įor my personal festivities on Christmas Eve, my Dinner menu is as follows:Ĭarrots, Cabbage and Lettuce Salad with mint dressingīaked chicken legs stuffed with bacon and breadcrumbs Parties and every get together will undoubtedly continue into Christmas morning, which will be greeted with a large breakfast consisting of Johnny cakes, bakes, liver with onions, kidney with bacon, scrambled eggs, bacon, corn flakes and milk, slices of ham, steak and onions, calaloo and cod fish, hard dough bread, hominy corn porridge, Ackee and Saltfish, salted mackerel with green bananas and roast breadfruit, fried sweet plantains, boiled yellow yam, boiled dumplings and Steam fish and pepper pot washed down with chocolate tea, coffee, English tea, Milo, Ovaltine or Horlicks. For example, you will find influences of Haitian cuisine in my menus.Īmong the English-speaking Caribbean for the most part, the large feastings will include Christmas Souse, Black pudding, honey Baked ham with Pineapple and cherries, escoveitched fish, special Breads like sweet breads and of course black cake, eggnog and rum punch. It should be noted, because of the fact that there are so many Caribbean nationals that have intermarried in the Diaspora, each major meal will reflect the mixed influences. The special dishes that you will find in homes will be the tastiest and most delicious you will find anywhere in the world! The biggest feast and merriment will begin on Christmas Eve into Christmas and New Years Day!įor Spanish and French Caribbean nationals, including those living in the Diaspora – Puerto Ricans and Dominicans mostly, they will be feasting on pickled bananas, yuca, tamales, pernill, Coquito, Plain Cakes and beers while the Haitians will partake of Black rice, Red rice& Peas, griot, lambi (stewed Conch), Creamy potato and red beets salad, baked ham with pineapple and cherries, Lasagna, Creme, Haitian Rum and Haitian Cake. The excitement and merriment starts increasing on Christmas Eve! This is of course after the multitude of office parties and surprise get togethers, church services and Christmas cantatas and plays, 23, 2015: Christmas is finally here and as I wrote in my last article, for Caribbean nationals, it is excitement and merriment until New Years Day in the homes of all Caribbean Nationals who celebrate the holidays!
