Eat in the heat #5 Summer minestrone with kale pesto
Summer has arrived in Barbados and it's gone from being hot with a breeze to hot and humid. It's the kind of weather that reminds me of balmy summer holidays on the Adriatic coast of Italy where we'd sit at the local Trattoria drinking red wine and eating delicious bowls of minestrone with crusty bread. This was a summer soup, fresh with slithers of courgette and carrot, flavoured with rich stock, morsels of bacon and peppery olive oil. If it wasn't for the fact that my child
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
