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More than a Few Reasons for Having Ginger in Your Kitchen!
Ginger is one of the most useful items you can have in your pantry since it can be used in so many different ways and for many different reasons. It has nutritional, medicinal as well as gastronomical benefits. Here are a few reasons for having ginger in your kitchen: [ read more ]
Chutney Anyone!
Smooth or chunky, from mangoes and papayas, pineapples, limes, bananas, apples, apricots and even coconuts, with curries, on meats and fish, at breakfast, with a snack, at lunch or dinner ...... If you guessed that we�re singing the praises of chutneys, you�re right. [ read more ]
Healthy Snacking!
While many snacks may not be healthy, snacking can be healthy and is encouraged. Besides helping to appease the hunger pangs that claw at you between meals, snacking can help you get in some of your daily required nutrients. What you snack on and the amount you eat at snack time are critical.Although some may choose to ignore the wide expanse of knowledge on nutrition and how it is related to our health, we should at least know that cookies, candies, sodas, fries and pastries are not the best foods to snack on regularly. ... [ read more ]
Delicious! Delightful! Peppers!
Peppers come in a range of colours – red, green, yellow, orange and even purple and black. They belong to different genera and a wide range of species too. There are varieties like - habanero, chilli, cayenne and bell. Some have exotic names like Sweet Banana, Cubanene, Jamaican Hot, Jalapeno, Fresno Red and Cubanelle. And then ... [ read more ]
Dominica, The Nature Isle
Looking for somewhere different to vacation? Consider visiting Dominica.
Dominica sits in the Eastern Caribbean midway between the French islands Guadeloupe
and Martinique. It is but 29 miles long with an area of about 289 square miles.
Its terrain is mountainous with a ridge of mountains (inactive volcanoes) running through
the centre of the island. Most of its population live in coastal settlements.
Politicians and others have joked from time to time that if Christopher Columbus, who is said to have discovered the islands ...[ read more ]
Nature Isle Tropical Gourmet - Economic Growth Through Community Effort!
The buzz today is about the new brand �Nature Isle Tropical Gourmet�. Did you know that since 2001, Nature Isle has created a stir on the world stage by gaining access to coveted markets otherwise off limits to most products from the Caribbean. In fact, what the Soca Warriors did for Trinidad and Reggae Boyz for Jamaica, Nature Isle Tropical Gourmet is doing for its home island of Dominica...... [ read more ]
