Trini green seasoning is a sauce commonly used in Trinidadian cuisine. It is a very flavourful seasoning that you can use as a marinade, a sauce, or a condiment. In my exploration of Trini cooking, I mainly use it as a marinade. Over the holidays I made oxtail stew, and the first step was marinating […]
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Trini Pepper Sauce
Here is our recipe for Trini pepper sauce, as approved by Ryan! We started with a base recipe we found online that looked like his family’s pepper sauce. Then he taste-tasted and we adjusted the seasonings to make it taste just right. Due to the large amount of vinegar in this recipe, the pepper sauce […]
Exploring Cartagena: Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden
One of the main sites we visited in Colombia was the Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden. Our parents, Karlos, and I woke up early one morning and took a taxi to the Guillermo Piñeres Botanical Garden. The drive was about 40 minutes, first through the bustling streets of Cartagena, and then a short way along the highway […]
Exploring Cartagena: Colombian Food!
We got a good taste for Colombian food during our week-long stay in Cartagena. Our favourite, perhaps, was all the beautifully ripe, perfectly fresh fruit! Vendors pushing wooden carts on wheels made the rounds and would pass by the front door of our airbnb. We would flag them down and buy deliciously sweet fruit; even […]
Exploring Cartagena: Mercado Bazurto
The Mercado Bazurto is a 24-hour indoor-outdoor market in Cartagena. Large and small stalls sell anything from fresh meat and fish to fruits, vegetables, blenders, and rat traps. We had heard about it from watching some travel shows about Cartagena; I think Anthony Bourdain ate here. It is a true local market, and I we […]