Aki? maybe it is Akee is the national fruit of Jamaica - eaten with salt fish, boiled bananas and something which might better be used as a puck for ice hockey, called a dumpling. The bananas are good, they help to relieve the saltiness of the fish.
This weird-looking fruit on the right of the plate is "sweet-sop" (cherimoya?). It tastes delicious, sweet and a bit furry and you spit out the pips. It has a cousin called "sour-sop" which is also delicious when beaten up and mixed with milk as a drink.
Sunday breakfast was Chinese roast port in variety, ribs, crunchy roast meat etc, eaten with fingers and relish and followed by tangerines and sweetsop.
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Oistahs, mon!!The oyster man comes twice a week with fresh oysters grown on mangrove roots so they do not touch the sea bed. While smaller than Whitstable or other oysters I have tried, these are definitely tastier and are eaten with a choice of relishes - I chose the milder of them. |
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First stop after leaving the airport was a roadside Coconut
Water Seller - these are not the ripe coconuts we see here which have
milk in them - these are unripe coconuts with a large amount of water
inside and a very small amount of "jelly" which will eventually
become the coconut we eat.
The taste is light and very refreshing - when my cough became worse it was several times suggested that I should mix this water with an illegal substance as a cure - but I resisted the temptation.
The taste is light and very refreshing - when my cough became worse it was several times suggested that I should mix this water with an illegal substance as a cure - but I resisted the temptation.
40 dollars may seem expensive but remember there are $Jam45 to $1 american.
