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Jamaican Jerk Chicken with Rice & Pea and Tostones (Fried Green Plantains)

Posted in Blogroll, Caribbean, Garlic, Jamaican, Recipe, Recipes, allspice, beans, cheap meal, chicken, chile, cilantro, culture, easy, fried, grilled, history, orange juice, paprika, pinto beans, plantains, pork, red beans, rice, spices, spicy, tostones, weather on Feb 27th, 2008

Ahhh, jerk chicken. One of my favorite dishes. It’s spicy, kind of sweet and when made well should almost melt in your mouth. On a cold winters night, there’s nothing that can snap you out of a cold-weather-depression than cooking up something from the Islands.

Jerk was used as a way to preserve [...]

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Amazingly, An Actual Original Pork Chop Recipe – Braised Pork Chops with Lime and Olives (And a Side of Mashed Yuca)

Posted in Olive Oil, Recipe, Recipes, alcaparrado, allspice, avocado, capers, chile, chops, cilantro, lime, olives, orange juice, pork, spicy, yucca on Nov 5th, 2007

I used to make these braised pork-chops quite regularly – several times a year, but I hadn’t made them for probably a year until last Thursday when Amy and I realized that we hadn’t even eaten pork chops for about four months.
The recipe is actually one of my originals, although I’m sure there are others [...]

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