This is an invention of necessity. I often make a Coconut Custard Tart for my cooking classes, but Adam harassed me for months to try the salted coconut from my Coconut Crisps so that the coconut would not go to waste if we had too much left over to eat. This is my answer to his harassment and thus the birth of the Salted Coconut and Maple Custard Tarts. The Pastry... ½ Cup sugar ½ Cup butter 1 ½ Cup flour Use a pastry blender to blend the pastry into a coarse meal and then p

I love this version of roti and teach many of my guests how to prepare their roti in this manner. Why don’t you give it a try and let me know if you like it? If you do want to give it a try, then make some West Indian Chicken Curry to go along with it so that you eat it the West Indian way… with curry! Ingredients 4 Cups all purpose flour 3 Teaspoons baking powder 2 Teaspoons salt 2 Teaspoons sugar 2 Cups lukewarm water (you might use more or less it depends upon the weather

Abby’s chicken curry was always something that Adam and I looked forward to having every time we returned to Antigua to visit my parents. It was made by a friend of ours from Guyana. This is my version of Abby’s West Indian chicken curry recipe… Follow this link if you want to make roti to go along side your chicken curry. For West Indians, Roti goes with chicken curry like hot dogs and buns, fish and chips… you get the point. Ingredients 1 Bulb garlic 1 Medium onion 10 Seaso