Haitian style baked sweet potatoes
Today’s recipe features our local sweet potatoes, which I have oven-roasted, mashed and reduced to a puree topped with prepared…
Category: “vegetables”
Artichoke battles
It’s Sunday. The table is set. Alongside each place setting are brown ramequins. Their sight brings a smile to a…
Lalo, unappealing yet tasty
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to finally enjoy the savory dish pictured above thanks to an…
Cabbage, mèchi & 7 cooks
– Should we cook the rice and meat first? – The recipe says not to cook them, but you know…
A day at the market
This brave woman carrying her fresh harvest downhill is not an unusual sighting in the mountains of Haiti. Women like…
A cabbage plantation
The other day, as I ventured outside into the far corners of our backyard, I couldn’t hide my surprise at…
Haitian Salade Russe
Good Friday is knocking at our door. Growing up, to me, that day implied a tasty feast that could leave…
My first watercress swim
Yes, you read right! I swam with watercress this past weekend. We had gone exploring in Saut d’Eau, north of…
Haitian Touffe Legume
….or how to start eating vegetables Carrot, cabbage, mirliton, eggplant, green beans…how do you get someone who hates vegetables to…