What's everyone cooking this weekend?

[JingsMahBucket]

I think I'm going to take a stab at this Trini corn soup tomorrow evening: www.homemadezagat.com/2017/02/traditional-trinidad-corn-soup.html. I'll likely add chicken wings to it and omit the dumplings to make it less carby. I remember my mum making something similar when I was little.

I have a leftover roasted chicken that I can strip the breast meat off it and use the carcass to make chicken stock with first. I'll do my shopping tomorrow afternoon and see if I can get some shado beni (aka culantro) in the neigbhourhood.

Let's share our weekend cooking experiments and recipes!!

@JingsMahBucket attached (hopefully) are English dumplings. Made with suet and flour, instead of the cornmeal and flour I use (and some people just use flour I think?). Caribbean ones are lovely and have bite to them. The first time I was given something with English dumplings I DID NOT want to eat them. I thought they looked vile. But they're very nice! I use vegetarian suet to make mine. Like the ones I'm making now... to go in the pot with the Grenadian ones...

Shall try that again

@JingsMahBucket cow foot soup! Haah! I distinctly remember my Jamaican grandma wrestling with the massive pressure cooker and complaining at me 'unu pickney no eat poor people food' It's only after growing up and tasting the Nigerian version ('nkwobi' I think it's called) that I actually can eat it happily. I missed out on my grandma's oxtail stew because I didn't like it but I looooooove any form of oxtail now. Same with pigs tails, my other grandad is Vincentian, and I love pigs tails now but rarely get to eat it (whenever I've visited st vincent, I pig out on roti with various stuff inside, and forget the rest).

Once my mat leave ends, a dutch pot is on my list of necessary purchases, but a good soup pot would be great too.

Food! All hail 🙌🏾