Highly Flavored: Home-Cooked Meals: A Collection of West Indian Dishes and International Favorites

Highly Flavored is a collection of 100 recipes of authentic, traditional home-cooked West Indian meals and some international dishes with a Caribbean twist!! These recipes are the chosen favorites of family and friends mixed in with a few short and funny stories about my experiences preparing and enjoying food while growing up in the Caribbean. Included are some mouth-watering and delightful home-cooked dishes such as Breadfruit Cou-Cou with Salted Beef, Corn Meal Cou-Cou, Ackee and Salt Fish, Chicken Chow Mein, Macaroni Pie, and Black Pudding and Souse. You will also find delicious sweet treats like Coconut (Sweet) Bread, Cassava Pone, Conkies and Sugar Cakes, Classic Cherry Cheesecake, Chunky Chocolate Coconut Brownies, Coconut Crepes with Strawberries and Bananas, Coconut Cream Pie Topped with Whipped Cream, Strawberries and Mango, and healthy smoothies and shakes. An authentic, West Indian or Caribbean cookbook would not be complete without some fish dishes. Try my Pan Fried Cilantro King Fish, Steamed Red Snapper, Blackened Mahi-Mahi or Honey Glazed Salmon for a start. As a bonus, you also get recipes for some natural, tropical drinks , like Sorrel, Mauby, Golden Apple Juice, Tamarind Drink and Sour Sop Punch. So, believe me when I say, you can enjoy authentic and traditional West Indian home-cooked meals in your own home anywhere in the world! Read more