Some tasty eats, from me to you!  I’ll keep adding recipes and ideas as long as my pots are rocking and my fingers are typing.

I don’t usually measure while I cook, so you’ll see lots of approximate amounts in recipes, or a range (for example, normal person garlic versus MY heavy-duty garlic); in fact, the only time I really measure is when I make baked goods.  Unless specific quantities are listed in a recipe, or it’s a recipe for a baked good, approximations are just fine for these recipes.

Please play with your food!  Adjust seasonings and quantities to your own taste–that’s what cooking is all about.  If I had to stress about a teaspoon here or ounces there, cooking would be nowhere near as fun.

Good Morning, Sunshine:

• Tropical Whole-Grain Muffins
• Spanish Scrambled Eggs
• Tropical Strawberry Smoothie
• Berry Cornmeal Pancakes
• Cooking Other People’s Food:  Sada Roti and Aloo Choka

Soups:

• Asopao (Puerto Rican Pigeon Pea Soup)
• Potato Chipotle Chowder
• West Indian Corn Soup

Salads:

• White Bean, Tomato, and Roasted Eggplant Salad
• A Salad Fit For A New Fiance (Nicoise Wannabe Salad)
• Green Banana and Saltfish Salad
• Thai-Inspired Tuna Salad

Pasta Dishes and Big Bad Mains:

• Callalloo and Coocoo, My Way (Caribbean greens and polenta)
• Chinese Eggs in Tomato Sauce, My Wife Danni Style
• Curried Chickpeas and Tofu
• Eggplant Pasta with Tomato-Basil Sauce
• Indian Sweet Potato Hash
• Lazy Girl’s Tomato Pasta Sauce
• White Bean Pasta
• Vegetable and Tofu Hoisin Stir-Fry
• An English Jacket Potato in Trinidad

Sides:

• Tropical Ground Provision Pie
• Chinese Thrown-Together Cabbage (sauteed with black bean paste)

Sauces, Dips, and Whatnot:

• Pico de Gallo (Mexican Tomato Salsa)
• Red Kidney Bean Hummus
• Hostess with the Mostest Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Dip

Breads:

• Reader, I Baked (Nigella Lawson’s Hearthbread via Rachel Wilkerson’s Blog)

Sweet Things for A Sweet Ting:

• Dark Chocolate Pudding (vegan or not)
• Guava Daiquiri
• Cooking Other People’s Food:  Cardamom Sweet Rolls
• Cooking Other People’s Food:  The Christmas Cookie Factory (Sugar Cookies and Gingerbread Cookies)

Go on, dig in… Buen provecho!