Please give me a poll friends...1st menu to offer....

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joanietoo

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the cooking class.....

Mango/paw-paw smoothes (rum optional)

Indian bites to snack on

Starters.....Lobster Salad(has fruit in it)

or

...................Shrimp/mango/avo salad

Main......Chicken in banana leaves

or

Caribbean Jerk Fillet

Mango chutney

or

Coriander chutney

Sides......

Turnaround Corn

Rum Coconut sauce

Stew Peas (red kidney beans)

or

Gungo Peas (pigeon peas)

Roasted sweet potatoes with lime juice

Fried Plantain

Dessert......

Chilli choc lava puds

or

Bread 'n Butter pud

Passion fruit sauce (or mango depending on the season)

Local ice cream

Local Rum shots

 
I vote for ...

Lobster salad
Chicken in banana leaves
pigeon peas (or was that a choice of one trio of sides or another?)
lava puds

Because these involve ingredients or combinations people might not otherwise try themselves (chili with chocolate) or know what to do with (banana leaves) or cook that often (lobster).

It's a scrumptious menu!

 
WOW! I assume these are adults?? My vote...

Mango/paw-paw smoothies
Indian bites to snack on (as in zucchini fritters with raita??)
Chicken in banana leaves
Fried Plantain
Chilli choc lava puds (not sure what 'pud' is, but definite on the chocolate!)

 
Ok, I'm ready to sign up. Anyone interested in carpooling? Real question inside

Are you going to have the students doing any hands on with knives or appliances? If so, you might want to hold off on the rum until after the cooking lesson.

 
My votes

Lobster Salad, Caribbean Jerk Fillet, Mango chutney, Stew Peas, - sorry, 'don't know what puds are, but chilli chocolate can't be too bad! ;o)

Kinda makes my hamburg, baked potato, and cherry tomatoes I had for dinner sound a little sad, doesn't it.

When is the first class?

 
Breadfruit does not travel easily so they are picked as ripe and.....

then cooked. I like them best wrapped in foil and snuggled into the coals.
It gets quite black on the skin. When soft cut in half, cut out the core and load it with butter and salt. Much like a baked potato.

I have boiled them (and again buttered well)

Treat them like a potato.

I like them a lot.

For these cooking classes I will get something from the market too....one or other of the 'provisions' in season.
Provisions are the starchy offerings.
Tania
Edoe
Breadfruit
Dasheen
Casava
Nigger yam (this I have a hard time asking for)
Soft yam

They can all be boiled and treated like a potato and some are loved by the locals and not much by us Westerners.
So I intend to cook it the Jamaican way for the students and they can decide for themselves.
I grow the 1st 5 on the list....not many but I do have them in the garden.

 
I figured they didn't travel well, or we'd see them around. Foil & char is the BEST way to have

them, IMHO. We had a breadfruit tree at the edge of our garden in Jamaica, but never got any fruit from it. I was puzzled, as I would see them up there! Asking Winston, our very funny gardener, brought a sardonic grin and a gesture toward the house next door, where a long stick with a hook and basket leaned against the garage wall.

 
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