At home or abroad porridge is heavily featured on Jamaican breakfast menus. Cornmeal, oatmeal, peanut, banana porridge or hominy we love them all. For some a bowl or mug of this warm sweet nutritious goodness with a couple slices of buttered hardough bread or a few Excelsior hard crackers is all it takes to get through …
Is Green Banana dumpling a Jamaican or a Caribbean food? I’m not quite sure. Maybe it’s a ‘country ting’ a description reserved for things found only in the Jamaican countryside. I have no idea. What I do know is that one of my favorite relatives would make such a delicious meal of brown stewed fish with …
Bananas have the distinction of being both a fruit and a vegetable. Green bananas are considered a vegetable. They are a staple ingredient in African, Polynesian, Asian, Spanish, and Caribbean cuisine. Ripe bananas are a fruit that’s familiar to just about everyone on planet earth. In Caribbean cuisine green bananas are used to make a variety …
