Caribbean Holiday/Event Recipes

"We eat this without the greens, but plan to try it with the greens next time we make it."

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Ingredients: mesclun, balsamic vinaigrette...

"This flavorful sauce would be delicious on grilled meats or tofu. The recipe mentions drizzling it over grilled cauliflower."

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Ingredients: light coconut milk, Madras curry powder...

"This is a great rice and beans recipe we got from our good friend Robert West in Panama. However, this is more a Jamaican style than Panamanian style rice and beans. He told us that a Jamaican woman taught him this recipe. I only try to make it as good as he did. This is great with barbeque chicken, cole slaw, and candied plantains (or platano en tentacion,..."

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Ingredients: coconut milk, dried kidney beans...

"Have had this recipe in my files for years - not sure where I found it. The citrus juice in this marinade helps to tenderize pork or chicken."

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Ingredients: ground allspice, dried thyme...

"A wonderful caribbean recipe for the grill. Serve with grilled sweet potato wedges. Prep time does not include marinating time. Another recipe from my collection that I have not yet tried, but plan to soon."

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Ingredients: ground allspice, dried thyme...

"It's like a yule log/Tronco Navideño.A sponge cake rolled into a log with a filling of your choice. You could frost it or just dust with powdered sugar. The filling I use is dulce de leche with guava marmalade, you could also use Nutella, bavarian cream or any flavor of marmalade. It's not as hard as it looks."

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Ingredients: egg whites, egg yolks...

"This is a variant of my Grandma Rita’s special Bahamain Guava Duff. As a child when I spent my summers with my grandma, when she made Guava Duff; it was like a religious ceremony and brain surgery rolled up into one. However; what made her True Guava Duff so potently delicious was that it was an adult recipe; however she would reserve some of..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cognac...

"This recipe starts with fresh pigeon peas and I am translating it from Spanish. It comes from an old cookbook, originally published in 1954 called "Cocina Criolla" by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli who was born in 1912. So I suppose she would know Puerto Rican cooking if anyone does!"

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Ingredients: pigeon peas, fresh cilantro stems...

"From Cooking Light Magazine. A great taste of the Caribbean. Serve with hot cooked rice tossed with toasted coconut."

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Ingredients: cider vinegar, cooking spray...

"Recipe is taken from the South End Cooks: Recipes from a Boston Neighborhood cookbook. The recipe states that one taste of this tropical salsa and your taste buds go on a culinary cruise."

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Ingredients: fresh mango, fresh cilantro...

"The British Virgin Islands are famous for their delicious rum cocktails - and this elixir is no exception! Make it extra-authentic by using Pusser's Rum, which is made in Tortola."

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Ingredients: dark rum, fresh lime juice...