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Red Peas Soup Recipe

PLAYING FAVORITES If ever there was a favorite soup for Jamaicans, Red Peas would be the one. This thick rich hearty soup is traditionally made with lots of red kidney beans and salted pigtails. It is then finished with vegetables, dumplings and ground provisions. The standard Caribbean soup blend of yam, potatoes, dumplings, and other

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Caribbean ‘Jamaican’ Black Cake Recipe

It’s a Cultural Thing Caribbean black cake is decadently rich, very spirited and highly addictive. If you know anything much at all about English Caribbean cuisine you already know that Black Cake is our official Christmas Cake. It can also be found at most other Caribbean celebrations, year round. Even though this rich treat can be

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Cooking with Chef Sian: Breadfruit, the Superfood

Is breadfruit a superfood? What exactly is a ‘superfood’ and is breadfruit a superfood? Well. Let’s take a closer look at this perfect(ly) delicious, totally healthy, specimen called Breadfruit? Breadfruit can be cooked and eaten at all stages of growth; from small and immature, when it is similar to artichoke hearts; to starchy mature; to

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