Eat in the heat: #3 Fish tacos with homemade tortillas, pickled cabbage and salsa
One of my favourite family style meals, these fish tacos are incredibly tasty, easy to make and fun for the children to put together at the table. They also make the best of local ingredients that are tasty, fresh, easy to get hold of and very affordable. The fish that I use here, which is my favourite Barbadian fish, is mahi mahi, locally known (rather confusingly) as dolphin (no relation - mahi mahi often swim alongside dolphin pods and use similar migration paths). A firm
Eat in the heat: #1 Fresh lemonade and pan toasted nuts
This is the start of a new series about the food that I cook and eat in the Caribbean. Because food is different here. Not hugely different, but different enough. Firstly, there is no online food ordering, no home delivery, no click and collect. For an Ocado.com addict with three young children that's been hard to accept. There are no short cuts. I had to forget about dashing out to Marks and Spenser to pick up a meal that can simply be popped in the oven. It took me months t
