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Mango Sorbet

by abigail on July 30, 2010

Mango Sorbet

“Boy, it’s hot. This is hot. It never got this hot in Brooklyn. It’s like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot. I don’t know if I can stay here if it’s going to be this hot.” Matthew Broderick as Eugene Morris Jerome in Neil Simon’s ”Biloxi Blues” [click to continue…]

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Taking the Cure: Pineapple Chow

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When I feel a cold coming on, nothing sets me right faster than a searing dose of scotch bonnet peppers, the more incendiary the better. Chicken soup is a fine cure, to be sure. But what I crave when the fog of a summer cold sets in is a good hot Trinidadian chicken curry. Served with a stinging hot choka and [...]

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Chicken Liver Pâté

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If there’s one thing we’re good at here in the islands, it’s parties. Any excuse will do…half birthdays, weird holidays, Tuesdays. So when Bobby Gray turned 60 a few weeks ago we had ourselves a fine excuse for a party. Bobby’s wife, the lovely and talented artist Lisa Muddiman Gray, threw a surprise bash at our mutual friend Andy Mudie’s house in the [...]

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Make Your Own Bottarga

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Waste not want not, or so they say. Working on the assumption that there’s a lot of truth in that old chestnut, we’ve almost worked our way through an entire twenty pound mahi mahi. We’ve had seared mahi mahi with green seasoning, mahi mahi and coconut curry, soy-glazed mahi mahi, mahi mahi in a creole sauce, and fish head curry. The [...]

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Mushroom Asparagus Risotto

June 23, 2010

We always take at least one extra, empty suitcase when we travel to Italy. We need something to hold the olive oil, cantuccini biscotti for Audrey, salumi, cheese, coffee, pasta, rice for risotto, and honey. And the dried porcini mushrooms. I love their earthy flavor and use them to add depth to risotti, soups, stews, pot roasts and stuffings. The ones I [...]

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Bourdain, Bones and a Fish Head Curry

June 16, 2010

I’ve always had a thing for the bad boys. You know the type - mad, bad, dangerous to know. I like a man who works hard and plays harder. I’m not afraid of dirty fingernails or a dirty mind. A man who can’t curse is no man at all. Of course, under the bad boy exterior, I do expect [...]

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Scallopalooza

June 2, 2010

It’s taken a while to trickle down but the recession has hit the BVI hard this year. The two industries upon which our island economy depends, tourism and financial services, are both feeling the downturn. Rumor has it the government is running out of cash (not really surprising the way they spend it).

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Watercress Soup

May 29, 2010

I miss Bones when he travels but at least he does bring back good presents. No fancy jewelry (for me at least, Audrey’s another story). My gifts are usually (happily) food-related. Hot sauces, jellies, jams, honeys, spices, salts…and my favorite – cookbooks. Many years ago he took a solo trip to the London Boat Show; I wanted to [...]

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Think, Baby, Think

May 26, 2010

I don’t like to watch the news. I find it depressing, scary, often violent. I don’t really need the gory details of the unspeakable acts humans perpetrate upon each other. I don’t want a tally of yesterday’s car wrecks, train derailments, rapes, murders, plagues and natural disasters. I have a vivid enough imagination to conjure up for myself the myriad things [...]

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Mezcal in Mexico

May 18, 2010

I’m still trying to sort out our summer vacation but at least Christmas is already in the bag. We’re going back to Mexico to stay at the Casa Raab in the tiny village of San Pablo Etla, a few miles outside of Oaxaca. Bones put together a slide show of his photos from our last trip about six years [...]

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At the Market

May 12, 2010

Grocery shopping on a small island can be hit or miss at times. I learned long ago that menus and shopping lists are only rough drafts. Keep your plans flexible until you hit the shops and see what’s on offer. Otherwise, disappointment looms. Instead of planning for tagliatelle with a pork and mushroom ragu, try for pasta with [...]

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My Brother, His Bride and a Beach

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The bride wore flip flops. So did the groom and the Registrar. There were in fact no proper shoes at all on display when my youngest brother, Bragg, and his fiance, Erin, became husband and wife Saturday on the beach at Mango Bay, Virgin Gorda. I do love a beach wedding.

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Feast or Fetish

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I’ve been using my little break from technology to catch up on my reading. Or more correctly, my re-reading. Like any book lover, I love finding new writers. But I get just as much pleasure visiting with old friends. Recently I’ve spent time with Pat Conroy, Michael Lee West, Clyde Edgerton, and Cassandra King, all authors with a decided Southern [...]

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Sugar Apple Unplugged

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You may have noticed a distinct lack of activity recently here at Sugar Apple. I haven’t been on vacation or anything exciting like that. I’ve just been taking a little break from technology. I can’t remember the last time I unplugged, went for days without turning on the computer. It’s pretty refreshing and I highly recommend it. I must admit [...]

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Behind the Camera

April 7, 2010

Looks like Bones is not going to be the only photographer in the family. Audrey managed to talk him out of a Nikon D100 and she spent much of the long Easter weekend photographing friends, family and food (that’s my girl!). Like father, like daughter.

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