Blue crabs and eggplant (Cirique a l’ aubergine)

  Ingredients: 8 medium live blue crabs 1 eggplant 2 tomatoes or 12 grape tomatoes 1 garlic clove 1 tsp of salt (or at will) 2 onions 1 scotch bonnet pepper (optional) 1 tbsp of tomato paste 1 tbsp of sour orange 1 tsp of lime thyme and parsley at will 1 tsp of black

Bouillon (Bouyon) Vegetable soup

Ok , Please don’t let yourself be misled by that title up there. Bouillon (bouyon : pronounced *boo-yoh* in creole) is not your usual vegetable soup. This mixture of vitamins can revitalize you in an instant. Rich in all sorts of nutritious veggies. I recently attended a Nigerian wedding. They served a bouillon as an

Farce tête-de-maure (Edam cheese spread)

The key ingredient to today’s recipe is Edam Cheese or as we, Haitians know it to be, Fromage tête-de-maure. Growing up only paying attention to the phonetics of that word, I really believed that it was spelled “Fromage tête de mort“, which literally means “dead person’s head”. Edam/Holland Cheese from the Netherlands owes its French name to

BLOG TAG : BEING ME

I was tagged by my fellow blogger Alexa D. Sterling from  The Fashion Peak Are you named after someone? Actually, no! But here’s a funny story about my name. My father’s cousin had a dream about my great grandmother telling her to tell my father to name me Nathalie. I don’t buy the story though 😛

Duri djondjon (haitian black rice)

Ah! The famous Haitian black rice. Pure bliss! No matter where you come from, you will love it. International guarantee! That rice is not like the usual wild rice (Indian rice) you know about. See, it’s not naturally/originally black. It’s prepared with the famous edible Haitian mushroom called ” djondjon” . I wish I knew the

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 23,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many

Sos pwa (bean purée)

Sos pwa is served almost every day in Haiti. It’s white rice’s best friend. They just go along so well. Today I wanted to cook something simple. But I totally forgot that the beans take more than an hour to cook. So, Save at least an hour for this! Ingredients: 1 cup of beans 2

Good Friday

Today is good Friday! In Haiti, during the holy week, meat is usually not eaten. But that rule is mostly stressed on good Friday. (Vandredi Sen- Vendredi Saint). On that day, Mom would have a lot of vegetables prepared. Potatoes beets carrots sweet potato breadfruit (which technically is a fruit ) . She sometimes prepared salads

“Pilon”

I know this is long overdue but I’ve finally come up with a logo for my blog. As you can see, I’ve chosen a mortar and pestle as a symbol, which wooden version is often used in Haiti. Every time I see a mortar and pestle , PILON in creole, all I could see or

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see