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Sharing recipes ideas to help you spice-up your homecooking journey with real ingredients. Get comfy and scroll through for meal pics and wholesome, tropical and flavour-filled dishes using peas, ground provisions, seasonal fruits, veggies, spices, seeds, nuts, flour and fresh herbs from the garden. Healthy, tasty, tropical vegetarian food.

When I went from being busy on the road to working quietly from home, cooking regularly (and better) was something i was looking forward to and it’s now a light and sweet part of life ever since. But at first, I had no clue where to start or what kinds of dishes I could rotate for a bit until i found new ones to add to my repertoire.

Every meal doesn’t have to involve a big production to be healthy, filling and enjoyable.

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coconut curry chana dhal (split peas), creamed potato, black rice & salad with lettuce from the garden

pumpkin curry, chana dhal (split peas), black rice and salad

paratha roti, red lentil dhal, sautéed courgette and curry coconut channa

simmer herbs, spices & citrus fruit peels on the stove for a sweet *natural air freshener*

roti prep stages. I love the roti days, from the dough-making process to the peas, potato and colourful filling cooking. Prepping the dough is like working on an art piece in stages; it can take awhile but is worth the effort and time when you taste the flavours, hear the sweet response when the pretty plate is served, and get to eat with your hands. Growing up on Trini food, eating with your hands is a regular thing that I still enjoy to this day.

‘buss up shut’ with curry channa and aloo (potato), bhaigan choka, tomato stew and spinach (*no fork needed*.)

fusilli pie (using my macaroni pie recipe)

fusilli pie, brown rice, kidney beans in coconut & carrot sauce, curry channa & aloo, zaboca (avocado)

sweet coconut curry pumpkin, stew gungo peas with tomato, steamed spinach and candied plantain

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baigan choka with curry okra, pickled cucmber, fried plantain – and chips to scoop them up

I grew up eating and now making meals from scratch with real ingredients. In different seasons, i’ve eaten strictly ital/vegan for about 5 years, veg & fish only and the opposite for a shorter stint so not here to advise on what’s best for you. Nowadays, it’s healthy, light yet filling vegetarian food. Light loving reminder (to me too): what comes out of our mouth matters more than what goes in. Words are meals too.