Emily’s “Carnival Body” Quinoa Salad Healthy Recipes ft Megan Martin The answer is yes! We’ve heard your requests for healthy and sustainable alternatives and recipes for 2020 and of course, team Simply Local has you covered with a healthy Quinoa Salad. Once again, we welcome our friend Megan Martin to the kitchen to help us… Continue reading Carnival Body Quinoa Salad
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Christmas Pigeon Peas
This vegan Christmas Pigeon Peas Recipe uses the perfect combination of ingredients to compliment the freshness of the pigeon peas and bring out that true traditional trini Christmas flavor in the dish, the way granny used to make it. If you ask the average person what one thing they must cook for the christmas holidays… Continue reading Christmas Pigeon Peas
Callaloo & Dasheen
Callaloo & Dasheen Too This is without a doubt one of my favourite dishes, not only because it tastes real bess but also because it uses the entire dasheen plant or taro. So we using the root and the stem to make this vegan dish or as like to say, the root and the fruit.… Continue reading Callaloo & Dasheen
Cow Heel Soup
Trini Cow Heel Soup Emily gets the pot bubblin’ with a local classic: Trini Cow Heel Soup! Watch as she brings this beloved soup to life using fresh ingredients alongside products from Cuisine. It will feel like Saturday afternoon everyday with this delight. Ingredients 2 tbsp Cuisine Soyabean Oil 1 large onion, diced 4 cloves… Continue reading Cow Heel Soup
Vegetarian Pelau
Vegetarian Pelau The default response when people ask for a vegetarian version to a dish is often “just omit the meat” but that doesn’t always yield great results because the meat itself is adding a lot of flavor to the dish. In the case of a vegetarian pelau, building flavor is a slightly more involved… Continue reading Vegetarian Pelau
Market Run
I try to go to the market as often as possible, preferably on a Saturday morning because that’s when the coconut vendor that I buy nuts from comes out. I actually enjoy going to the market, I don’t see it as a chore or a hassle but a relaxing outing where I get to interact… Continue reading Market Run
Quick Corn Soup
Whether around the Queen’s Park Savannah on any given evening, outside a fete or on a random busy street corner, corn soup has made its way into the top tier of street foods in Trinidad & Tobago. If made correctly, it could take you well over an hour to bubble the perfect pot of corn… Continue reading Quick Corn Soup
Bhagi Rice with Pigtail
Renee prepares a popular one pot recipe in Trinidad & Tobago, Bhagi Rice with Pigtail. Bhagi Rice Ingredients 1 bundle Bhagi, cleaned and cut 2C Rice 4C Coconut milk 1 lb Pigtail 2 Onions (medium and small diced) 2 Okras 3 Pimentos (small diced) 6 Garlic cloves (small diced) 1C Pumpkin (small diced) 4 Thyme… Continue reading Bhagi Rice with Pigtail
Roasted Veg & Channa Salad
I created this recipe recently while going through the process of cleaning out my fridge and pantry it originally consisted of roasted beets, eggplant, pumpkin, onion and garlic but this time around I didn’t have any eggplant so I left it out and added pimentos. As it turns out, roasted pimentos are really delicious. The… Continue reading Roasted Veg & Channa Salad