Posts Tagged ‘dessert’

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Taste of the Caribbean: My Big Brother’s Bad-Ass Cruzan Rum Balls

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Nothing says “Damn, that was tasty!” quite like an empty plate, bowl, or in this case, a whole freakin’ tin! See the one pictured above? It was once chock-full of the yummiest dessert treats to arrive on my doorstep during the 2010 Christmas Season – homemade Cruzan Rum Balls!
The gourmet goodies came courtesy of my (and Patrick’s) big brother, Peter. We haven’t introduced you to Peter during the 11 months since Patrick and I started hosting the Uncommon Caribbean party because… well… he says he’s a bit too busy to share his travel tales. It’s not like he doesn’t have interesting stories to tell either.

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Steve
Steve

Taste of the Caribbean: Pineapple Rhum Delight

Pineapple Rhum Delight/SBPR

Culinary travel is on the rise around the world, and the Caribbean is no exception. Scores of people travel to the region each year with the express purpose of hobnobbing with celebrity chefs and sampling the many varied and distinctive gastronomic delights served up during such fabulous festivals as the St. Croix Food & Wine Experience, the Barbados Food, Wine & Rum Festival, Cayman Cookout and many more. It was while attending one of these festivals, Sainte-Marie Culinary Week in Martinique, that I came to know the dessert pictured above.
The Sainte-Marie event is extra special in that it’s the largest food festival held annually in one of the Caribbean’s premier culinary destinations.

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Steve
Steve

Taste of the Caribbean: Tortuga vs. Pusser’s Rum Cake Challenge

"B" was judged better/SBPR

It became clear to me soon after inciting a rum cake challenge between Tortuga and Pusser’s that I may not be the best person to oversee such a contest. This doesn’t mean I don’t know cake or rum, of course (You have been following along, right?)… It’s just that my Mom was an excellent baker. Breads, muffins, cookies – all of this and more she made from scratch and usually straight from memory with just some cursory aid from an odd cookbook or two. My brothers and I were those kids at school who always had the great lunches that everyone wanted a piece of.

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Steve
Steve

Taste of the Caribbean: It’s Also Just Not Christmas Without Black Cake

Mmmmm... Black Cake!/SBPR

So, as we alluded to on Friday, it’s just not Christmas for many West Indians without Ponche de Creme and Black Cake. The super-moist and decadent treat pictured above is the quintessential dessert du jour in much of the region this time of year. Not having some on-hand and at the ready to share with family, friends and assorted others who might happen by during the Holiday Season is tantamount to some serious disrespect. And whereas its close cousin, Fruit Cake, is seen as one of the least desired gifts one might expect to receive here in the States, getting a Black Cake back home in the Caribbean is always a Christmas dream come true!

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Taste of the Caribbean: Make Your Own Home Made Guava Cheese

Dypresco Home Made Guava Cheese

There’s one treat all children growing up in the Caribbean begin salivating for around this time of year: Guava Cheese. This is literally the sweetest part of the big meals soon to be shared around the holiday season throughout the West Indies.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying this holiday treat, you may be thinking to yourself: “Guava cheese!?” Well, rest assured, there is no actual cheese in guava cheese. (Funny how we in the West Indies seem to name things whatever we want with reckless abandon!) Instead, the most basic ingredients of guava cheese are simply guava and sugar… Lot’s and lots of sugar.

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Steve
Steve

Taste of the Caribbean: Sweet & Sexy Papaya Pie

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Just try to say papaya without cracking a smile… Not only does it remind me of warm childhood days back in St. Croix traipsing through the bush on imaginary adventures with my brothers, but this fruit is also just damn sexy!
It’s sweet, yes. It’s juicy too, but so are a lot of other fruits. The sexy difference lies in the papaya’s distinctly feminine physical traits.
On the outside, papayas have a sensuously round, bosom-like shape, the full effect of which is best represented pre-harvest when they’re still, um…hanging in the trees.
On the inside, well, take a look at the photo above… Do I really have to spell it out?

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Steve
Steve

Friday Happy Hour: Sangster’s Blue Mt Coffee Rum Cream

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A Friday without a Happy Hour is never a good thing. It’s like working really hard to erase a 2-goal deficit, only to have some idiot ref disallow your freakin’ amazing go-ahead goal for no apparent reason whatsoever. Yeah, it’s criminal. Really.

Deep breath.

When 1 of my Fridays deteriorates thusly (like today), I tend to skip ahead to bedtime and my favorite nightcap, Sangster’s Blue Mountain Coffee Rum Cream.
If you’re a fan of Bailey’s Irish Cream, then you will LOVE this stuff. It’s incredibly smooth and creamy, combining premium aged Jamaican rum with the rich, aromatic flavor of Blue Mountain coffee to put you instantly at ease.

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