Recipes from the Dominican Republic

One of the best things about doing this blog is discovering recipes or ingredients that I would probably never have tried in my regular cooking life—especially those that I like so much that they become a part of my family menu. One of these ingredients: pigeon peas. I love them. They have a wonderful earthy flavor and they...

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Recipes from Dominica

Do you feel the warm breeze?   The sand between your toes? Smell the ocean? That's right! It's another trip to the Caribbean. This week we are in Dominca, not to be confused with The Dominican Republic, which is in the same neighborhood but is not the same country.  Dominica, as you can see on the map below,...

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Recipes from Djibouti

Confession: I don't know how to use Twitter. I mean, I can click the little bird icon at the top of the page and I'm pretty sure that sends out a tweet, but other than that, really, I have no idea. So a couple of days ago as I was sitting in the waiting room at the 10 minute oil change place I happened to open up my heretofore...

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Recipes from Dhekelia

Do you remember Akrotiri? Well, that's where we are again. Except it's Dhekelia. Dhekelia is exactly the same sort of place as Akrotiri; it's a British-administered sovereign base area on the island of Cyprus, with the primary difference of course being that Akrotiri is on the southernmost point of the island, while Dhekelia...

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