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Caribbean Home Cooking

Caribbean food cooked at home abroad: a stocked cupboard and green seasoning in the freezer, the core techniques from browning to roti, Christmas pastelles and black cake, and family recipes written down before they are lost.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Caribbean Home Cooking, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Caribbean Home Cooking

Cooking Caribbean food at home: green seasoning, stews, curries, pelau, roti, rice and peas, pastelles and sorrel, family recipes and finding ingredients abroad.

  1. Choosing the first ten Caribbean dishes to master
  2. Caribbean store cupboard for the first month
  3. Map of Caribbean grocers, markets and online suppliers near you
  4. Freezer batch of green seasoning
  5. Essential pots and tools for a Caribbean kitchen
  6. Handling Scotch bonnet and other hot peppers safely
  7. Cleaning, seasoning and marinating meat safely
  8. Curry powders and spice blends compared across the islands
  9. Family recipe collection started with three dishes
  10. Weekly Caribbean meal plan around one big pot
  11. Monthly shop at the Caribbean grocer
  12. Seasoning, pepper sauce and geera restock routine
  13. Sunday lunch kept as a weekly tradition
  14. Freezer stock of cooked portions and roti skins
  15. One new dish from another island each month
  16. Video cooking calls with family back home
  17. Quarterly pantry and spice freshness check
  18. Imported ingredient spending tracked by month
  19. Browning sugar for stew without burning it
  20. Rice and peas, cook-up and pigeon peas rice
  21. Pelau from caramelised chicken to one pot
  22. Indo-Caribbean curry with chunkay and burnt masala
  23. Dhalpuri and buss up shut roti at home
  24. Fried bakes, floats, Johnny cakes and dumplings
  25. Saltfish from soaking to buljol and ackee
  26. Steamed fish, escovitch fish and fish broth
  27. Callaloo, cou-cou and a pot of oil down
  28. Jerk marinade and grilling without a jerk pit
  29. Haitian epis, griot and pikliz
  30. Pepper sauce, kuchela and chow made at home
  31. Sweet bread, coconut drops and currant rolls
  32. Measuring a recipe that was always cooked by eye
  33. Substitutes for ingredients you cannot get abroad
  34. Pressure cooker, slow cooker or the iron pot
  35. Less salt and oil in the family pot without losing flavour
  36. Ital and vegetarian versions of favourite dishes
  37. Christmas pastelles made with the family
  38. Black cake with fruit soaked ahead
  39. Sorrel, ginger beer and cream punch for Christmas
  40. Easter bun and cheese, and fish for Good Friday
  41. Seven curry for Divali or a family puja
  42. Cooking for a family party of forty
  43. Teaching children to cook the family dishes
  44. Caribbean cooking on a student budget in a shared kitchen
  45. A partner learning the family's food
  46. Cooking for an older parent living with you
  47. Guyanese pepperpot with cassareep for Christmas morning
  48. One dish across five islands
  49. Caribbean supper club for friends at home
  50. Printed family cookbook for the whole family

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing the first ten Caribbean dishes to master

Most people abroad grew up eating Caribbean food without ever being shown how to cook it, and trying to learn everything at once ends in takeaway. Picking ten dishes you actually miss, spread across a weeknight pot, a Sunday lunch, a side and a sweet, gives you a short list to practise in order. Ten dishes cooked well cover most of what a home table needs.

First tasks

  • Write down twenty Caribbean dishes you miss, without editing
  • Ask the household which three they would eat every week
  • Cut the list to ten and number them easiest first
  • Note beside each dish who in the family cooks it best

Caribbean store cupboard for the first month

Half the battle in Caribbean cooking abroad is having the basics in when the urge strikes: browning, coconut milk, red kidney beans, pigeon peas, curry powder, geera (ground roasted cumin), allspice, dried thyme and a bottle of pepper sauce. A cupboard stocked against your first ten dishes makes a stew or a curry a weeknight decision, not a special trip across town.

First tasks

  • Read through your ten dishes and list every dry or tinned ingredient
  • Check the cupboard and cross off what you already have
  • Buy the missing items in one trip to a Caribbean grocer
  • Label spices and bottles with the date opened

Map of Caribbean grocers, markets and online suppliers near you

Shado beni, fresh thyme on the stem, dasheen bush, green figs and good salted cod are easy to find in Brixton, Flatbush or Scarborough and almost impossible fifty miles away. A written map of who sells what, with prices and delivery days, saves wasted journeys and tells you when a substitute is the better choice.

First tasks

  • Search maps for Caribbean, West African, Indian and Latin grocers within an hour
  • Visit the two closest and note what fresh produce they carry
  • Ask which day the provisions and peppers are delivered
  • Compare delivery charges for two online Caribbean grocers

Make it yours.

Install Caribbean Home Cooking, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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