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BLACK BEANS
Side Dish

BLACK BEANS

These Cuban Inspired Black Beans are a nutritious and delicious side dish. I almost always have a can of black beans and the dried beans in my pantry as it’s a super quick side dish.…

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Summer and a Souse recipe
Appetizer

Summer and a Souse recipe

Some of you have noticed my absence and I apologize but sometimes summer gets in the way.   The past few weeks have been filled with BBQs, Festivals, Luncheons, days at the pool and hosting family…

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Today’s Lunch
Side Dish

Today’s Lunch

I was at wits end as to what to cook for lunch today, that seems to be the trend lately since I’ve become a bit of a scatterbrain.   Maybe it’s because of my current “condition”.…

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Guyanese comfort meal
Side Dish

Guyanese comfort meal

Potato Hash or Boil and Fry…different name, same concept.  But when I think of Boil and fry it evokes a warm, comfy feeling that I don’t get when I think of Hash.  It was a…

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A quick snack and an update
Side Dish

A quick snack and an update

This is a quick and not so healthy snack that I grew up eating.  We would buy these crunchy treats from the roadside vendors,  it’s salty, crunchy and spicy and all around satisfying.  When I…

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Eating with eyes only
Side Dish

Eating with eyes only

How ironic is it that I spent the day yesterday preparing foods that I had the misfortune not to forsee that I won’t be able to eat today?  I made corn cooked in coconut milk,…

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GUYANESE DHAL PURI
Bread

GUYANESE DHAL PURI

I’ve owed you guys this recipe for a little while now.  I’m feeling very guilty, so in the middle of my vacation I got out my laptop and decided to finally post it.  Please forgive…

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Rice with Saffron and Green Peas
Side Dish

Rice with Saffron and Green Peas

Saffron has always been one of the spices I’ve always been intrigued with.  The cost of saffron is what initially caught my attention, how can those little red, delicate strands cost $1000 per pound??  This…

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