Welcome back to our vegan world tour as we stop in Grenada to make vegan oil down. I have not had the fortune to visit Grenada but my wife got to go a few years back. While visiting, she saw the omnivore version of oil down and requested a vegan […]
Caribbean
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This week we are back in the Caribbean as we pay a visit to the Bahamas. To get more acquainted with Bahamian cuisine, we make a vegan conch salad, a ceviche-style dish popular throughout the islands. This post is a bit of an outlier on this blog as my wife […]
This week we visit Jamaica, one of the larger islands in the Caribbean. For our visit, we cook a vegan recipe for Jamaica’s national dish ackee and saltfish. This vegan version of the Jamaican classic is served alongside bammies – coconut-soaked fried cassava cakes. Jamaican cuisine As Jamaica is an […]
This is part 2 of 2 for our visit to Trinidad. See part 1 for more information on the cuisine and a recipe for doubles. Sorrel is a cold drink made from hibiscus flowers which we first drank in Port of Spain last year. It is made by simmering hibiscus […]
Since we moved to Toronto, we have made many close friends from the Caribbean with whom we’ve talked extensively about their different cuisines. Last year, we had the good fortune of visiting Trinidad and got to try their cuisine first hand. Originally inhabited by the South American Amerindians, the islands […]