Kataifi

Tropita – Greek Cheese Pie – SXMCooks. Kataifi is a popular Middle Eastern pastry made with a special form of shredded filo dough, it looks like angel hair pasta and can be used to create a variety of savoury dishes and sweet desserts.  While I love to use filo (fillo / phyllo) dough sheets I…

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Salt Fish Jamaican Style

My friend and co-worker is Jamaican. She loves to cook as much as I do and in fact she put herself through a cooking course held here on island. She excelled in the two-year course. I bought some salt fish so she could make us Jamaican style salt fish. In Jamaica they eat this dish…

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A good life is all about “good food, good drink, good places and good people.”

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Hello there – this blog is all about living and cooking on St. Maarten/St. Martin, a Caribbean island that is brimming with culinary delights. It is the island that has an entire village known as the Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean.

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