Hey Cain, good luck with your surgery. You should get some jello, soup and Ensure ready so you can have something to eat after.

Dem wild turkeys got to be hard.....wonder if they are edible?

My 14 yr old and 12 yr old grandsons are spending a week with us.....I forgot how much food growing boys want/need (my son is now 39 yrs old).  Full breakfast, lunch, dinner and 5 snacks in between......and at 10pm every night before they go to bed they want tea and arrowroot biscuits and if I let them they will eat a 'tube' each of the biscuits.  I buy all kinds of food stuff for them in bulk from Costco.

hiya Deed

Turkey with shredded zuke? That’s definitely on my must do list! I have so much zucchinis that I am constantly asking people to take them.
Made fritters, noodles, cakes, stew, curry etc

wow, still can’t imagine your grandsons are so grown

lol at the amount of food they eat…growing  boys gotto eat

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on the menu today, paratha roti with garden baji, fry aloo n maybe some corn on cob

My daughter is getting lots and lots of zucchini also and is passing on most of them to me.

I have made curry zucchini/chicken, zucchini noodles sauteed with garlic in olive oil for exactly 3 minutes (so yummy), shredded and added to turkey burgers and chicken meat balls, and so far 3 sets of zucchini bread/cake.....with chocolate chips as it's the only way the grands will eat it.

Plan to make zucchini Parmesan next.

The funny thing with zucchini......I bought 6 plants in the spring and decided that too many for my lil garden so I gave 3 to my daughter and I planted 3.

Harvest so far....

My daughter - too many to count

Me - zero, zilch, nada, none!!!!

not sure what happened with my garden.

same with cucumbers.....I got 2.

my daughter.....too many to count.

Deed, that’s very strange about the zucchinis and cukes…

I also have lots of acorn squashes which my son loves to roast with brown sugar, cinnamon n black pepper

Have a few butternut on vine, 2 pumpkins, some bora, butter bean- white and purple, bigan, peppers, tomatoes, herbs etc

we have grilled zukes with olive oil, black pepper and oregano

made Parmesan zuc n eggplant in same pan

of course, I ain’t Guyanese if I never curry zuc or stew it up😹

Going to marinate about 40 drumsticks with jerk seasoning…nope did not make my own but I do add extra thyme, garlic n hot sauce

On the m menu this  eve was zucchini fritters mmmm had it with tamarind sauce also had left over fry aloo n rye bread🙃yep, didn’t feel like kneading dough

Will make some tomato choka n roti on Sunday

Cous cous is on my late night snack. VB, those turkeys are hunted around here, deer is also hunted, every now and again we hear shots. They come on the property here because no one goes after them, the hunting boundary stops across the road from us.

Well Wildflower, tomorrow we'll be picking up some fish cakes, cassava pone and the family grabbing some chicken curry and roti from a Guyanese lady who goes to the Lindsay market during summer. It's not bad, takes the edge off when my mouth start feeling like ole time foods.

@cain posted:

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Well Wildflower, tomorrow we'll be picking up some fish cakes, cassava pone and the family grabbing some chicken curry and roti from a Guyanese lady who goes to the Lindsay market during summer. It's not bad, takes the edge off when my mouth start feeling like ole time foods.

So tell all a we how all dat back home kinda food taste nuh

planning to make some cassava pone soon

i got this giant tomato in my garden so now going to roast it up and make some roti to with tomato choka

also got some of those round eggplants, may add some eddoes and make a curry

Whats cooking everybody?

From my garden, picked karaila and finger baigan. We had kaloungie stuffed with fish and shrimp and made 3 to 4 slits on the baigan to make them look like fingers, dipped them in basan mix and fried them. Goes great with Baco Noir. Cheers.

Baigan (not from my garden, but on sale at Food Basics for 88c/llb)curried with eddoes and chicken.

Cooked oil roti - 50/50 wholewheat and unbleached flours.

You know, I have not made kalounji in more than 7 yrs. some things I only cooked because my beloved enjoyed it. I no longer put steamed karaila in fish curry nor curry chunks of it with shrimps.

I got some very big karaila, from my one vine, which I promptly gave to my mom. Since she lives alone, she will cook it and share with me and my cousin. I will keep the vine to make tea.

Today I fried up some tomato with chives, basil n tiny pc Trinidad scorpion pepper then cracked few eggs and stir in …with roti for brunch.

I have some ghost, scorpion,chilli, jalapeño, one bird pepper and one habanero plants growing. Got lots of chilli, 2 ghost and 1 scorpion so far. The plants have lots and I am hoping they will start to ripen. Not sure when to pick jalapeño.

will make some veggie fry rice with mushrooms n bora so I have for tomorrow also will make fry bigan with tomatoes n potatoes all from garden 

Bitter melon is a great plant to grow in your backyard garden as no critters like it so it will produce really well undisturbed. It is a zero waste plant meaning every part of it can be consumed and it has many health benefits.

I know about the benefits…my hubby loved it. I do eat it but I don’t cook it. I also tried to convince my gay neighbours to try it😃 especially since one is in his 70s and one not yet 60! They didn’t like it. They do like Mauby when mom makes.

for the first time I have purple n white butter beans….mom will cook

Anybody cooking duck curry soon? No? Well then since I am feeling to eat it I must cook it soon!

Saturday I made dhal, rice, crispy fry masala smelts, smoke herring choka and steamed kale. Still eating it😳

Just finished a bowl of salfish stew an a boiled egg with garlic buttered Nann. First time in about eight years I had an egg and it went down ok so far.

@cain posted:

Just finished a bowl of salfish stew an a boiled egg with garlic buttered Nann. First time in about eight years I had an egg and it went down ok so far.

Hope you dint swallow it whole.

Hahaaa! Nah banna, I kept waiting for the tingle in my mouth followed by a tossing of my cookies but it never came on.

Omg what’s happening with cainstah?.?.? Did u jess say u eat hegg? Wait!  Are u still alive?😁

So yesterday I said no cooking and went off on a7k hike, got home and someone said they heard me mention tomato choka and roti…so of course I made it 🙄

today I made smoked turkey( from Costco)  cookup with lots of basil n thyme, poi, carrots n even added green beans for the first time. So far the review is good😋

I never smoked turkey, that would be difficult to keep alight.

Still haven’t gone to get that duck, not sure how I can cook duck curry without duck🤣

today I plan to make macaroni pie….my granddaughter and my son likes it a lot

have a restful wknd all

I had Pollichathu fish and biryani rice. All home made.

where you got the banana leaf?

@Former Member, at a Sri Lankan grocery; even the spices to make the sauce. Tomatoes and cucumbers from my garden. Fish is Pompano. First time I had this was in Kerala.

I see our grocery store carrying perch and pickerel, that's nice fish.

Didn't Guyana have tilapia?

@cain posted:

I see our grocery store carrying perch and pickerel, that's nice fish.

Didn't Guyana have tilapia?

I enjoy those when my son catches…never bought it yet

I knew a family in Greenwich Park who had a tilapia pond….can’t say I’ve ever cooked it but I have eaten it many times

@Mitwah posted:

I had Pollichathu fish and biryani rice. All home made.

now I feel like eating some real spicy food from Baboo

always enjoyed their lamb vindaloo

as I’ve said b4, most times I cook for just me so sometimes it’s easier to just pick up a naan n some cooked goat or lamb

Lamb bunha for supper. I like it with garlic naan. Lot's of cucumber from my garden on the side.

I had rice with crab curry made in Guyana and brought for me along with my cassareep and other stuff

still thinking about duck curry🦆

With kindah of slackness I hearing, crabcurry gettin a plane ride?

I usually stock up on my Blue Crabs in the fall when the price seems to drop.

You gotta be stocking up on blue butter just in case.

My neighbor uses the Blue Butter on her dog.

Yep, it's for animals actually. I've looked it up but not sure where to get it other than Amazon, not that I need it...hehe

She gets it from her pet store.

@cain posted:

With kindah of slackness I hearing, crabcurry gettin a plane ride?

Is more than slackness with them customs dudes…nah, they ok with cooked stuff.

I have to admit that I do enjoy blue crab curry or soup but have never cleaned it. I guess I will only eat king crab when my ppl dem stop visiting. There’s a Diana seafood place about 2 blocks from me, a few of usually buy a box of king crabs…yummy  I’ve made Cajun style crayfish and crab legs which the whole fam enjoy.

lunch today was tomato choka with paratha ( yesterday I picked another five gallon bucket of tomatoes)

@cain posted:

You gotta be stocking up on blue butter just in case.

Never heard of blue butter. I googled it and seems like it’s something I can use on my K9 paws. The old boy gets itchy paws and sometimes he gnaws on them. He gets severe allergies every august🙁   The younger girl is ok so far.

@Mitwah posted:

@Former Member, at a Sri Lankan grocery; even the spices to make the sauce. Tomatoes and cucumbers from my garden. Fish is Pompano. First time I had this was in Kerala.

made pizza for lunch. it turned out well

Did you put sardines on it or Marmite?

@cain posted:

Did you put sardines on it or Marmite?

nah. de lady prepared de dough with yeast. i put spaghetti sauce, chicken, pineapple, seasoning from de garden, onion, and a little grated cheese

@cain posted:

Did you put sardines on it or Marmite?

I usually put :Kippers+ home made tomato sauce+ pine apple+ hot red pepper flakes and oregano.

@cain posted:

Did you put sardines on it or Marmite?

Never had marmite on pizza but used to like anchovies

I also like sliced eggplant with skin on my pizza with garlic and pesto, fresh tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, pine and chicken

I do enjoy tomatoes in every way including soup but for some reason don’t like red sauce on pizza

we made a nice batch of pesto when the basil was in full bloom ( by we I mean I grew it and the tenants downstairs made it😁 i.e. my son and his gf) They also made lots of red currant jam and jalapeño spread using my garden produce…mmmmm

sun is less, garden callin me

I have an invite for a patio dinner at captains boil …still thinking about it. I have not been to a restaurant since Jan 2020 in US

I grew some butter beans for the first time. First few times I picked and gave to my mother. Yesterday I picked and cooked it with lots of tomatoes…had it with roti. I don’t think I ate butter beans since I left Guyana

Today I had boil n fry black eye beans for dinner