My favourite Guyanese dishes gathered from friends and family. I improvise too.
It is Balanjay Choka aka roasted eggplant season right now, in fact it starts in July and keeps on going until late September. There are many ways to use this gorgeous nightshade vegetable, but this recipe is my favourite, so when the eggplant season rolls around I think it is …
This Baked Chicken Drumsticks is made with my Kitsilano Masala, Guyanese Green Seasoning, Olive oil, and Greek tomato paste. 5 ingredients and 35 minutes. It is my easy-peasy go-to sheet pan Chicken Drumsticks recipe. Prepped in 10 minutes, placed on a parchment paper lined pan and into the oven it …
From mid-July to late September it is balanjay, aka eggplant, season. These sun soakers love the heat, and they are grown year round in hot countries where they are called by many names; aubergines, eggplants, bharta, and balanjay depending in where you are. No matter the name, it is one …
Cooking is as easy as one, two, three, with my Kitsilano Masala and Green seasoning. Go ahead and try this Guyanese Style Prawns Curry recipe. The economy is getting more and more ridiculous and so we must find ways to save money. Maybe we can even do less side hustles …
The alpha and omega of chicken soup – no matter what research you conduct you will always return to one profound thought…it makes me feel so damn good! The beginning – Chicken soup has been around for over 12,000 years when farming became a part of cultures. Traditionally, a good …
Cassava puffs are filling and delicious, Vegetarian and Low FODMAP. Follow the recipe, and enjoy the finished product without any guilt or tummy pains. These cassava puffs, with green specks of a homemade Guyanese-style chimichurri, served with a quick green mango sour, is a serious comfort food for me. The …
On a cold wintery day pandemic day, nothing beats this tummy warming, childhood favourite of mine…Mama’s Cottage Pie. There is a dish I absolutely love this time of the year, not Shepherd’s Pie but Cottage Pie. This is so easy to make, mainly because there is no need for elaborate …
Vegan foods are always on trend, but better than that is when it is a Guyanese Channa that is 100 percent gluten-free. Boiled-and-fried Channa is a popular Guyanese street food. Any time of the day or night you’d be able to find a brown paper sack filled with this fragrant boiled …
Fabian Dawson is not only a multi-awarded investigative journalist, he is also an amazing home cook. Take this Black Pepper Chicken dish as an example. The days when he is inspired to cook is always a good day in our home, it means I ain’t cooking today, yay. I should …
This basic pastry dough is so seriously very basic, fats, flour and iced water…and yumtastic Baking is a science they say, well it is and it isn’t. I love this simple basic pastry dough my mama taught me. My mama, Rachael Bacchus, would fill these flaky pastry shells with just about …
This Chocolate Chip with Orange Peel Cookie recipe is like a happy childhood and a gourmet snob colliding and high-fiving in these pandemic times. I have baked chocolate chip cookies many times and no two times have they ever been the same. This recipe has literally hit the sweet spot. …
In Guyana, these fish cakes were made with either local tropical fresh white fish, or with salted cod. But any fish will do, as long as it is well-seasoned and fried to perfection This Fish Cakes and Bread recipe is inspired by my days as a young school girl, when …
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