Name a dish or meal you have had

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tishamae</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Jazz

Excellent topic!! I just love all the storys, the kind that warms the

Did ya all ever hear of dukanoo-due-can-ooo? When I was a young girl living in Jamaica, Mother was tought how to make this. We all were in on it as it was special for Sundays only. It is what I was told an African desert. Everyone was busy with some part of the preperation. I had grown used to trying new things by that time, but this was going to be cooked in a banana leaf! Let me tell you I had more than one after dinner and begged for them every Sunday I could get them. !

If you ever want to make them, use the coconut trash, mix with some cornmeal, brown sugar and raisans. Wrap them in a banana leaf and tie them with the middle of the banana in squares. Boil for a while maybe an hour. Has anyone else ever had this?

I love all the stories and I look forward to more.

Gots to go get me rice n pea, chicken and gravy a check. I'm definately gonna read this again when I have more time! </div></div>

we call it Blue draws

[Stormmey]

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The colour of it blue.....mek a go google it......

wonder if it blue under that wrapper



also why draws doan look like any draws I have ever seen

[JamBrit]

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I know, right? I wonder the same ting....drawz noh look soh!!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The colour of it blue.....mek a go google it......

wonder if it blue under that wrapper



also why draws doan look like any draws I have ever seen </div></div>

[JamBrit]

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Great topic Jazz....enjoying all the stories....

Mine is <span style="font-weight: bold">Jerk Pork</span>

Living in England and at the age of @9 or 10, I had never even heard of jerk pork...mummy never cooked it nor did any other relative we visited. It was the day I would finally get to meet one of my sisters who were raised in Jamaica after my parents migrated to England. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself...At the airport (Heathrow) I remember watching all the passengers appearing from behind a wall..cloaked in my blue coat leaning over the rail my heart was beating so fast....then she came... wow!! That's my sister!! When we finally got home, and she began to unpack, she produced this package wrapped in lots of paper....whatever it was I thought, it smelled goooood!! So my sister opened it up and asked me and my other sisters if we've ever tried jerk pork before..and in unison we said &quot;noooooo&quot;....OMG....Yuh si di moment I put a piece of that pork in my mouth, I was sold....that was it and so began my love affair with Jerk Pork....I love it to this day..and i will always remember my first experience and the day I met my sister for the first time!

[Stormmey]

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The Canadian family thought I was a picky eater, but I just did not like when they say they cooked the beef, moose etc. and it still a moo

The first time I went to JA I prolly was bout nineteen or so and my first intro to oxtail I said to my half-sis and granmama I am not a meat lover. Well when I saw the oxtail I said I do not want any of that (she was seasoning it) plus I thought that is all bones.

Well when it cook and the smell when it was cooking there began my love affair wid oxtail and beef. bones.....lawd jamaicans love chewy chewy them bones eh!! my sis in jamaica chew it to a powder. we are in a restaurant and she say cho am in public I cannot chew my bones.

[Stormmey]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JamBrit</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Great topic Jazz....enjoying all the stories....

Mine is <span style="font-weight: bold">Jerk Pork</span>

Living in England and at the age of @9 or 10, I had never even heard of jerk pork...mummy never cooked it nor did any other relative we visited. It was the day I would finally get to meet one of my sisters who were raised in Jamaica after my parents migrated to England. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself...At the airport (Heathrow) I remember watching all the passengers appearing from behind a wall..cloaked in my blue coat leaning over the rail my heart was beating so fast....then she came... wow!! That's my sister!! When we finally got home, and she began to unpack, she produced this package wrapped in lots of paper....whatever it was I thought, it smelled goooood!! So my sister opened it up and asked me and my other sisters if we've ever tried jerk pork before..and in unison we said &quot;noooooo&quot;....OMG....Yuh si di moment I put a piece of that pork in my mouth, I was sold....that was it and so began my love affair with Jerk Pork....I love it to this day..and i will always remember my first experience and the day I met my sister for the first time! </div></div>

somehow jerk pork and chicken taste different and better when you buy in jamaica/cooked in jamaica. My first bout with the authentic jamaican jerk pork I think was in Portland cannot remember the specific place in Portland. I said peppa nearly mek me pee up miself but I could not stop eat it. The man we bought from said mix some sugar and wata give her, then he said Miss yu betta stapp yu na use to di peppa. I turned as red as a lobster contined eating tho and overcame that sweet agony

[JamBrit]

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I totally agree!! I never taste a jerk pork so sweet like the one my sister brought with her from Jamaica (maybe because it was the first time I was tasting it)...the seasoning and the pepper did nice cyaan done....I remember even sneaking some pieces of it out of the fridge...cowl same way...lawd it sweet mi!!

I hear yuh girl, all when di peppa a bun yuh an nose a run...yuh nuh waan stap!! LOL

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">somehow jerk pork and chicken taste different and better when you buy in jamaica/cooked in jamaica</span>. My first bout with the authentic jamaican jerk pork I think was in Portland cannot remember the specific place in Portland. I said peppa nearly mek me pee up miself but I could not stop eat it. The man we bought from said mix some sugar and wata give her, then he said Miss yu betta stapp yu na use to di peppa. I turned as red as a lobster contined eating tho and overcame that sweet agony </div></div>

[LusciousJohnson]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JamBrit</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Great topic Jazz....enjoying all the stories....

Mine is <span style="font-weight: bold">Jerk Pork</span>

Living in England and at the age of @9 or 10, I had never even heard of jerk pork...mummy never cooked it nor did any other relative we visited. It was the day I would finally get to meet one of my sisters who were raised in Jamaica after my parents migrated to England. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself...At the airport (Heathrow) I remember watching all the passengers appearing from behind a wall..cloaked in my blue coat leaning over the rail my heart was beating so fast....then she came... wow!! That's my sister!! When we finally got home, and she began to unpack, she produced this package wrapped in lots of paper....whatever it was I thought, it smelled goooood!! So my sister opened it up and asked me and my other sisters if we've ever tried jerk pork before..and in unison we said &quot;noooooo&quot;....OMG....Yuh si di moment I put a piece of that pork in my mouth, I was sold....that was it and so began my love affair with Jerk Pork....I love it to this day..and i will always remember my first experience and the day I met my sister for the first time! </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">somehow jerk pork and chicken taste different and better when you buy in jamaica/cooked in jamaica</span>. My first bout with the authentic jamaican jerk pork I think was in Portland cannot remember the specific place in Portland. I said peppa nearly mek me pee up miself but I could not stop eat it. The man we bought from said mix some sugar and wata give her, then he said Miss yu betta stapp yu na use to di peppa. I turned as red as a lobster contined eating tho and overcame that sweet agony </div></div>

all yaad food taste better cooked in jamaica in my opinion. never had anything that was better here than there

curry goat

[j-kid]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jazz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I don't know what they put in there but it was the sweetest thing to mi

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Probably was di smoky flavor.

Ackee an Saltfish cook up ah bush inna empty kerosene, or cheese tin (wan fi boil food an nedda fi ackee). Dat is probably some an mi best food memories. Cook dung wid som coconut oil an salt poak. Dat smokiness really enhance di flavor. Oh yea, wash ie dung wid som dark sugar lime or orange aid. Wi usually sneak an tief di limes off som neighbor's lime or orange tree.

Goh shoot bud, an clean an cook it ah bush ova open fire.

Are yuh starting fi si ah bush pattern here?

Corn meal, cassava, an potato pudden cook pan di likkle cast-iron stove wid fire ah bottom an top pan zinc sheet. Mi jus love dah soft custad top.

Some ah mi best food memories on business trips, noh com from fancy restaurants, dem came from small hole-inna-di-wall restaurants!

Pan di negative side, Mi use tuh hate boil chocho, boil turnips, or boil carrots wid ah passion! Dem use tuh haffi beat mi fi get mi fi nyam dem. As soon as it went down into mi stomach, up back it came right inna di plate. Fi years as an adult my would not eat it, unless it was cooked down wid meat and gravy.

[rie]

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for some fresh ackee I can get salt fish here but tin ackee is 15 us a can! No thanks. I,m going have to take a drive down to the keys, Ihear ackee grows there and breadfruit. I can get some plants I pray. I will prob have to bring them inside for a few months but wth my green thumb, once I get them they will grow. For all you south FLA Peeps question please how far down to drive for bearing ackee and breadfruit trees?

Thank you Thank you Thank you

[j-kid]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Stormmey1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The colour of it blue.....mek a go google it......

wonder if it blue under that wrapper

also why draws doan look like any draws I have ever seen </div></div>

Di person who named it, was obviously color blind, and quite drunk at the time.

Stormmy, yuh jerk pork encounter reminded mi. I went back to visit after a loooong absence from JA. Soh 4 ah wi ah drive all ova through di island ah nyam, raw oysters wid hot pepper sauce, patty, red hot peppered shrimps from di man whe ah ride di bicycle and straw basket full ah shrimps. Den wi goh Portland goh buy jerk pork. We were in hog heaven, so tuh speak!

By di time wi reach MoBay an stop fi di night, all dat peppa an different foods wi bin nyamming started fi get wi attention. Every strikin wan ha wi had severe diarrhea!

We were in ah Suite, soh wi were sharing di bathroom. Mi ah tell yuh, di food was great going down wen wi did nyam ie, but bredda, talk about passing back out ah volcano! Every blastid wan ha wi kept running back an forth tuh di bathroom all nite, soh much soh dat wi started di new line-dance craze, jus because di tilet line was backed up at di door an wi were all in agony while we waited and danced back and forth soh wi noh crap pan wi self. Wi batti did ah bun wi yuh si! Talk bout waa kill whomever the poor victim who was inna di tilet at di time ah try give birth tuh ah mini flame thrower! Ah pure banging pan door an cussing did ah gwaan dat nite! However, com mawning wi were all friends again wid big smiles, ready fi hit di road once more.

[Laurel]

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what fun stories ... all of these

great thread ~

while I hesitated the first time Blue Drawers were offered to me up round Aunty Peggy's yard ... it turned out to be one thing I have craved ever since that first bite.

I MUST beg them to cook some up for the coming Holiday Visits ...

Wooo Hooo ~