Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Jamaica Villa Menu - a sampling of what your chef might prepare!
How does this sound for lunch?
Cheese & Callaloo Quiche
or Lobster Quiche
Marinated Bean Salad
Breadfruit Chips or Potato Chips
OR this for dinner?
Cold Tomato Soup or Lobster Cocktails
Curried Chicken On a bed of White Rice
Steamed Vegetables
Fried Plantains
Orange Cake
All of these delicious dishes could be on the menu at the villa of your choice on your next Caribbean vacation! All villas in Jamaica come fully staffed, including a private cook. For our villa clients, we always arrange the arrival meal to be a traditional Jamaican Roast Chicken dinner with all the tempting sides & a tropical dessert. Then we ask that our clients sit down with the villa cook to plan the rest of the week's meals. We provide ideas to choose from, including many of the dishes above. These exact menus are from SunVillas, a rental company specializing in Jamaica. Browse all of their menus here.
Getting to Jamaica from most major US gateways is easy, all major US airlines fly to the island. From the UK, you may fly American Airlines or find flights on United Airlines too!
Getting to Jamaica from most major US gateways is easy, all major US airlines fly to the island. From the UK, you may fly American Airlines or find flights on United Airlines too!
Check out the Cheap-O Air Blog!
It's a fact. Most travel blogs out there today are simple tools for self-promotion of expiring rates and tourist traps. Sometimes my own blog falls into this category too... I'll admit. So imagine my surprise when I stumbled across a blog with a typical title but seriously quality content? Check out the Cheap-O Air Blog and this great post from Friday all about one of my favorite Jamaican dishes:
Jamaican Foodie Friday
"Jamaican food is truly a celebration of the diverse cultures we boast, along with a touch of novelty and innovation. The distinctiveness of our food and culture was contributed primarily by the Arawaks or Tainos- the earliest recorded inhabitants, The Europeans, The Africans-who came as slave laborers and The Indians and Chinese- who came as indentured servants.It’s no surprise our Motto is : ‘Out of many one People’..." read more here on their fantastic travel blog and be sure and check their main website for Cheap Flights!
Jamaican Eats
Imagine my surprise as I browsed the racks at Barnes & Noble for my monthly magazine run when I came across an entire magazine dedicated to Jamaican (& Caribbean) cuisine? Of course it came home with me and my husband and I both read it cover to cover within a few days. We found a few familiar faces and even more familiar recipes... but a few new ideas too - like jerk flavored popcorn or nuts to snack on! Check it out here.
Alton Brown is Feasting on Waves
Alton Brown, creator and star of multiple shows on the Food Network Channel, is charting a new course, Feasting on Waves. The shows follows Alton's culinary adventure through the Caribbean islands.
The official word:Alton Brown goes in search of America's culinary roots and Caribbean flavors in Feasting on Waves. He starts his journey on St. Kitts (aka St. Christopher), named by and for Christopher Columbus on his second journey to the new world. Alton, like Christopher, is traveling North and West through the Leeward Islands and on to the British Virgin Islands. Alton maintains the spirit of Feasting on Asphalt and seeks out the most authentic and traditional foods of the regions and meets the people who created them. Restaurants are the most obvious targets but Feasting is about the unexpected, so Alton also ventures to find roadside stands, street vendors, farmer's markets, farms, spice houses and homes of local cooks who make specialties of the region.
Enjoy his show and contact our Caribbean Travel Specialists to plan your own Caribbean culinary adventure!
Recipe: The Hummingbird
I discovered the Hummingbird on my first trip to Jamaica 8 years ago. I fell fast for the creamy rich concoction and spent years trying to recreate it before returning to Jamaica. With a palate that longs for savory + sweet flavor combinations, this drink soon became my all time favorite in Jamaica. The slight nuttiness of the coffee liquor and the buttery rum cream combined with the sugary sweet strawberry syrup and smoothness of a real banana makes for perfect satisfaction ANY time of day. And by anytime, I do mean that it is the hummingbird I ask for when I stroll past the bar before noon and justify my longing with the cliche "Its 5 o'clock somewhere..." Enjoy!1 fluid ounce rum cream liqueur
1 fluid ounce coffee flavored liqueur
1 fluid ounce milk
1/2 fluid ounce strawberry flavored syrup
1/2 fresh banana
1 cup crushed ice
Combine first 4 ingredients in blender then add banana and ice and blend until desired consistency.