Callalou seeds - need T&T recipes from Jamaica from you guys who have lived and visited there...

gayle-mo

gayle-mo

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We fell in love with the jerk chicken and callalou, especially! Rice and peas (beans) are good,too.

Requesting any and all T&T recipes!

I just bought callalou seeds and will be starting them soon. Anyone know where we can find chouchou seeds? smileys/smile.gif

Yum!

 
That's interesting! I can see where that would work....especially when

one considers that you can make a mock apple pie with saltine crackers!

I love chocho! Hope we can grow some.

Found some Scotch Bonnet Pepper seeds and ordered them today. Yay!

Thanks, Pat!

 
We just plant the whole chayote

Our last one went streaking up the tall tree we planted it under, and disappeared into the top leaves. Occasionally a squirrel would take a bite from a fruit, decide it wasn't tasty enough and drop the discard for us to find.

So don't plant it under anything taller than your ladder!

 
When we lived in Kingston, we had a breadfruit tree on the side of the yard.

Never got a fruit from it, though, and was really disappointed! I asked Winston, our gardener, and he said "Well, Mum, ther's a grrreat reaason for THAT!" (trying badly to write his patois) and pointed to a long stick with a hook and basket leaning against the house next door. I didn't care that they harvested our ackee, but I DID want the breadfruit. AARRGH

 
Oh, no! That was terrible!

I saw many things while in their land - and many of the people were simply wonderful! But..there were the others.... Same as here, I'd say!

So chocho is also called breadfruit? Okay....that's good to know, now maybe I can find the right seeds!

Thank you!

 
There are so many varieties of chayote - it's confusing

But I love the idea of planting the whole fruit under a tree! If I could just find a fruit! smileys/smile.gif

Thanks!

 
Like our peach tree. We've been able to get 2 peaches, each of the last 3 years. And our

neighbours tell us there are sometimes hordes of people under our apple tree, collecting. And there was a couple who'd come to our pear tree every year, she wearing an apron. They'd fill the apron every day. Finally I asked why they didn't just ask us if we wanted them. Of course, they all pick the easy ones, leave the ladder-climing for us.

Ah well, no big deal.

 
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