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In Road-side, Travel, Trinidad on May 30, 2008 at 4:07 pm
There’s nothing better than eating outdoors (I think) – bits of dirt and grime add just that lil’ som-som to your meal. And there’s definitely nothing better than eating on a sandy beach after a salty dip in the ocean.
Richard’s Bake and Shark is the best kind of beach meal, too. And at TT$25 (or US$4) there’s simply nothing better.
Richard. I tink.
On Trinidad’s Maracas Beach there’s really only one thing to eat. A Bake and Shark burger. The ‘bake’ means fry-bake and it looks like a deep fried bun slivered in half and the ’shark’ is exactly that, battered and deep fried.
What makes Richard’s stand out from the rest of the beach’s ‘bake and shark’ is the type of toppings you are invited to drown your burger with.
Under Richard’s bright red canopy lie several metal dishes containing a variety of toppings with your standard lettuce, tomatoes, onions, ketchup and mustard but then ingenious others like tamarind sauce, cilantro/coriander (Chadon Bene perhaps?) sauce, garlic sauce, spiced pineapples, cabbage, mango chutney, a thousand island type of sauce and…..the mother of all hot sauces.
(On a side note: What I learned is, if you want to try the hot sauce in Trini, you may as well eat it IN the bathroom…’cause that would save a lot of time, really).
Er…aaaanyway…if you’re still reading this and weren’t repulsed by my toilet banter…. basically you come away (after it’s wrapped and placed into a cardboard box for you by the gentleman at the head of the condiment table) with your bake and shark looking like this:
And it is simply the. best. thing. ever.
It’s worth the trip to Trinidad.
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In Fish, Recipe on May 20, 2008 at 5:08 am
This is one of my favourite recipes. You can use frozen tilapia, but I prefer fresh tilapia fillets.
Ingredients
- 1 lb tilapia fillet cut into 8 pieces
- salt (to taste)
- 1 tsp tumeric
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 2 tsp garlic
- 2 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp corriander
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 2 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 4-6 green chillies
- optional 1 green bell pepper (or any bell pepper)
- water (enough to make some gravy)
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
Preparation
- wash fish with water and then with lemon juice
- coat with salt, turmeric, chilli powder and set aside so that it can marinate for a bit
- chop ingredients in the meantime
- heat oil, saute fish and set aside
- fry onions, add garlic, ginger, a bit more red chilli powder, turmeric, cumin, corriander and stir fry
- add tomatoes and stir fry
- add salt
- add fish
- add green chillies, green pepper (optional) and water
- cover and cook 5-10 minutes
- add lemon juice
- simmer
Serve over brown (or white) rice -I prefer brown rice (Brown Basmati rice is great!)
Mmm..yummy!
