Things you've brought back from the Caribbean
Feb 2, 2012 | 10:07 am
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Things you've brought back from the Caribbean
I have travelled all over Europe and love bringing home food/cooking items, etc, but my next trip is different. We are flying to San Juan and cruising St Thomas, Barbados, St Kitts, St Maartin and St Lucia. I love experiencing local foods and my favorite souvenirs and food related items.
Any suggestions on what to look for at any of these stops? So far, I've heard about banana flavored catchup and of course.... Rum.
Any suggestions on what to look for at any of these stops? So far, I've heard about banana flavored catchup and of course.... Rum.
Feb 2, 2012 | 11:24 am
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I have travelled all over Europe and love bringing home food/cooking items, etc, but my next trip is different. We are flying to San Juan and cruising St Thomas, Barbados, St Kitts, St Maartin and St Lucia. I love experiencing local foods and my favorite souvenirs and food related items.
Any suggestions on what to look for at any of these stops? So far, I've heard about banana flavored catchup and of course.... Rum.
Any suggestions on what to look for at any of these stops? So far, I've heard about banana flavored catchup and of course.... Rum.
Feb 2, 2012 | 1:14 pm
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We brought back English Harbor rum and Sister Glo's jams and preserves from Antigua.
Cane sugar was also ridiculously inexpensive as well which we brought home a lot of.
Cane sugar was also ridiculously inexpensive as well which we brought home a lot of.
Feb 2, 2012 | 4:23 pm
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i have enjoyed our vanilla rum alot. it is especially refreshing with a cold coke. seems many restraunts in st barths seem to make there own and we got bottles from a few to bring home
Feb 2, 2012 | 4:27 pm
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Can definitely support enjoyment of vanilla rum. Great taste mixed with coke. Once tried it makes plain rum and coke seem very ordinary.
Feb 2, 2012 | 4:58 pm
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Definitely RUM. There are many more flavours easily available in the Caribbean. The other is overproofed rum 120-160 - Warning: handle with care around open flame. This is the stuff that bartenders use for the fire dragon effect by spraying them from their mouth onto a match.
Feb 2, 2012 | 8:08 pm
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Saint Lucia makes these little cocoa logs, sometimes called sticks of pure cocoa cake or cocoa sticks. They cost like nothing, and have the most incredible flavor if you use cocoa.
Here's one blog entry about them
Cocoa Sticks - Rolled Bars of Cocoa for Heavenly Cocoa Tea
Makes incredible hot chocolate, like nothing you have ever tasted
These cocoa sticks are available locally at markets, tourist areas and even the airport in Vieux Fort, St Lucia. They can be found online at the Hotel Chocolat amongst other places.
The cocoa sticks are made from crushed fermented cocoa beans. The cacao sticks are rolled into a fairly hard 1" thick cylindrical roll. The cocoa sticks are usually grated when used as they are quite hard.
This hot chocolate tea drink is so rich, you will feel the moisturizing cocoa butter on your lips. The cocoa tea has a superb spicy taste that is wonderful and the tropical spices blend and complement the chocolate flavor. It is a surpring mix, but usually things that grow together go together.
Read more: http://www.infobarrel.com/A_Guide_to...#ixzz1lHhUQi2I
Here's one blog entry about them
Cocoa Sticks - Rolled Bars of Cocoa for Heavenly Cocoa Tea
Makes incredible hot chocolate, like nothing you have ever tasted
These cocoa sticks are available locally at markets, tourist areas and even the airport in Vieux Fort, St Lucia. They can be found online at the Hotel Chocolat amongst other places.
The cocoa sticks are made from crushed fermented cocoa beans. The cacao sticks are rolled into a fairly hard 1" thick cylindrical roll. The cocoa sticks are usually grated when used as they are quite hard.
This hot chocolate tea drink is so rich, you will feel the moisturizing cocoa butter on your lips. The cocoa tea has a superb spicy taste that is wonderful and the tropical spices blend and complement the chocolate flavor. It is a surpring mix, but usually things that grow together go together.
Read more: http://www.infobarrel.com/A_Guide_to...#ixzz1lHhUQi2I
Feb 3, 2012 | 6:34 am
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Feb 3, 2012 | 11:54 am
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1. Hand-carved bowls from Belize.
2. Hepatitis A from Cozumel.
3. Blue Agave tequila from Mexico.
4. So many insect bites I had an allergic reaction Guanaja, Honduras.
5. Silver jewelry from Cozumel.
6. Norovirus from Roatan Honduras.
7. Close-up video of a manta ray from Bloody Bay Wall, Cayman.
8. Coral and jellyfish stings from all over.
9. Memories.
2. Hepatitis A from Cozumel.
3. Blue Agave tequila from Mexico.
4. So many insect bites I had an allergic reaction Guanaja, Honduras.
5. Silver jewelry from Cozumel.
6. Norovirus from Roatan Honduras.
7. Close-up video of a manta ray from Bloody Bay Wall, Cayman.
8. Coral and jellyfish stings from all over.
9. Memories.
Feb 3, 2012 | 12:21 pm
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1. Hand-carved bowls from Belize.
2. Hepatitis A from Cozumel.
3. Blue Agave tequila from Mexico.
4. So many insect bites I had an allergic reaction Guanaja, Honduras.
5. Silver jewelry from Cozumel.
6. Norovirus from Roatan Honduras.
7. Close-up video of a manta ray from Bloody Bay Wall, Cayman.
8. Coral and jellyfish stings from all over.
9. Memories.
2. Hepatitis A from Cozumel.
3. Blue Agave tequila from Mexico.
4. So many insect bites I had an allergic reaction Guanaja, Honduras.
5. Silver jewelry from Cozumel.
6. Norovirus from Roatan Honduras.
7. Close-up video of a manta ray from Bloody Bay Wall, Cayman.
8. Coral and jellyfish stings from all over.
9. Memories.