Comida!!!

So a lot of people ask me what kinds of foods I eat here….and being a fat kid and all, I decided to write an entire blog dedicated to FOOD describing the foods here  Bon Appétit!!!

To the Market!
Banana!/green bananas
Okra
Soursop: tastes like softbrown sugar, soft like a ripe mango
Tamarind
Sorrell
Coconut
Golden apple: yellow ! kinda tastes like a sweet pea , but you eat it like an apple
Breadfruit
Bora : long green stalks, kind of the extra large green beans !
Tomatoes
Lettuce
Bolongie(eggplant)
Pawpaw(papaya)
Awara: orange hard sweet, kinda tasteless fruit that makes you look like you just at a bag of cheetos and have it all up in your teeth
Guinep: soft, little green balls, break the outer covering with your teeth, and pop it in your mouth, very soft, kind of taste like the ocean, and has a pit
Mami: orange shaped, sweet like apple, grapefruit and orange combined! YUM
Pine(Pineapple)
Plaintain
Callaloo(like spinach)
Pumpkin: not like the pumpkin back home, although its orange! Its sweet, chop up and simmer with sugar
Mango= heaven on earth…
Melon
Pear(avocado)
FiveFinger(starfruit)
Edo: starchy potatoe that is purple!
Sweetpotato not like a yam, but is very sweet, looks like a regular potatoe
Squash; green!
Guava
Cassava


Baked Goods:
Salara(red cake) made with layers of coconut and sugar
Dahl puri: soft tortilla base with crushed/fried split peas in the middle
Phulouri: little splitpeas fried dough balls
Cheese rolls; pastry with cheese in side
Cheese sticks: butter and cheese…not my favorite even though im from sconnie
Pine tarts; pastry with pineapple
Roti: kinda like a tortilla, fried and has layers from “clapping”
Black cake




Typical Guyanese Dishes/Seasonings:
Fried Rice
Chow mein
Curry
Pepper Pot( spicy potroast type of meal…served around xmas!
Porridge( oatmeal)
Saltfish and bake (friend bread and baked saltfish with seasoning
Beans and rice
Macaroni and cheese(with lots of mustard!)
Seven Curry

Achar---MY FAVORITE! Green mangoes fried with seasoning and pepper=spicies up any dish!
Pepper Sauce-Hot sauce
Marrymans Pork(basil)
Dhal-splitpea sauce
Mango Sour- put on a lot of things..like plaintain chips! YUM


YUM!!!

Peace, Love and Deliciousness!