The best homemade ice cream in the world! The very best ice cream you can imagine is being served at many restaurants. It is also an ice cream you can buy from the ice cream stand in Grand Case. The flavours are out of this world. Homemade in St. Martin you will really enjoy trying…
Category: Foodie Finds
Shop and Drop – St. Maarten/St. Martin
When are you returning to our beautiful island in the sun? Season is back and Shop and Drop Grocery St Maarten/St Martin is once again offering their services to you holiday makers who love coming to our island. Jeannie, who is behind the amazing online grocery delivery service called Shop and Drop, and her team…
Travelling Wrinklies “Flavors of Curacao” #2
An upscale culinary event organized by CHATA (Curacao Hospitality and Tourism Association) (here) where visitors and locals have the opportunity to enjoy a wide array of dishes prepared by some of the best chefs on the island. Guest chefs also make an appearance at this renowned food festival giving demos followed by a dinner tasting.…
Saba – Day Trip
Day Trip: – Boat ride – Bus tour – Gin tasting – Lunch and back to St. Maarten! Visibility was not good when we went daytripping but the captain got us to the island of Saba – the day we went the sea was quite lumpy! This map image is from (here) – you can…
Peanut Butter Biscuits
Peanut Butter Biscuit recipe – an oldie from the 1950s or before – never fails to please. Sometimes I get the munchies for sweet crunchy biscuits. I am not that much of a lover of bought biscuits/cookies. (The few I do like are seldom in the house because they are too easy to nibble on…
Nopalito
Nopalito We love Mexican food, it is not a cuisine I know very well, nor do I cook it often, so I was delighted that the cookbook club I belong to had Nopalito, a Mexican Kitchen – Gonzalo Guzman with Stacy Adimando, as the book of the month. I was quite busy those weeks so…
Willy Ice Cream
Willy Ice Cream I had a fun morning recently. I found out the backstory of some really and truly GOOD ice cream made locally on St. Martin. A friend invited me to join her on a visit to the maker of Willy Ice Cream. I jumped at the chance. Epicurean delight here I come. Date…
Aquafaba?!
Aquafaba Really – What is this? New word/new food/new fad? Aquafaba is the thick, gelatinous byproduct from chickpeas that have been soaked; it turns out it is a perfect vegan egg substitute. Usually you tend to toss this liquid away – down the drain it goes. Who knew that it would become such a health…
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…
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…