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Levis Roots....his cooking show

Not convinced about yams though, never really liked them, snapper is really cheap and very tasty fish
 
Orang Utan said:
it's against offcom regulations - jamie oliver got in trouble for it a while back with his flavour shaker
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and yet Levi Roots has his own range of cooking sauces

surely he could sell "sunshine kits" too?

I thought that the flavour shaker was problematic because of the offensive advertisement? that and the fact that it was crap
 
tarannau said:
Goat's a bit of a weird one. You need good cuts to begin with and I favour the wash in vinegar and water traditional approach, even if it's probably nonsense. Then rub spice mix, leave to marinate and then cook. If anything, mutton makes a better curry if you ask me
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I certainly won't be trying it again. I know where I am with a bit of sheep!
 
Louloubelle said:
and yet Levi Roots has his own range of cooking sauces

surely he could sell "sunshine kits" too?

I thought that the flavour shaker was problematic because of the offensive advertisement? that and the fact that it was crap
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he can flog his sauces all he wants as long as he doesn't mention them on his tv show
 
I'd have though most people would have most of the sunshine kit anway?...I don't have any all spice and think that unless you live in London you would struggle to pick up scotch bonnets but other than that seemed straight forward enough stuff

I once met Levi roots...I put my arm round him and we had our picture taken... he tried to duck under my arm...I guess you could have called it a roots manoeuvre :D;)
 
Missed it, will try and watch on the I & I Player.

Jamaican food goes way beyond the average curry goat and jerk chicken. There's a place in Montego Bay called Pelicans who do incredible food - their versions of staples such as Johnny cakes and ackee patties were sublime.
 
temper_tantrum said:
The marinaded lamb he cooked looked absolutely delicious. Also the rice & peas. I didn't write any of it down though, so I was thinking of seeing if there's a BBC website with the recipes on ...


Edited: Aha!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/...=eq&val_9_1=&attrib_22=cookwithchild&oper_22=
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cheers.

One of the best meals I ever had was kingfish and breadfruit from a street stall in Barbados. It had this herby bit. I hope he visits barbados especially to see that street seller and find out what the herby bit was.
 
He's a bit different to when I last saw him on Dragons Den. Don't tend to watch much cooking on telly so just watched it on catch up.

What I've had of Jamaican food I like, despite most having been served in styrofoam. Also think of it as having too many ingredients and a lot being meat based. Is there much in the way of veggie stuff?

The fish looked good, might give that a try, snapper seems to be cheap whenever I see it on the market.
 
There are a fair few Ital types who shun meats (and often fish) but I wouldn't say that there's a particularly strong tradition of veggie food out there. Folks love their cook up and meat generally. Chicken feet, fish eye and bone marrow are all much loved and crunched upon.
 
The food he cooked on the programme struck me as being HIS recipes (as very much a Jamaican who'd been in the UK a looong time) rather than a reflection of what Jamaicans in JA cook. I mean, olive oil in Jamaican cooking???????

And, oddly, seeing as I've never met the guy I did think 'what would Tarannau think of this?' :D
 
tarannau said:
There are a fair few Ital types who shun meats (and often fish) but I wouldn't say that there's a particularly strong tradition of veggie food out there. Folks love their cook up and meat generally. Chicken feet, fish eye and bone marrow are all much loved and crunched upon.
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Aye, though as much. The takeaway near work does a veggie curry but it's heavy on carrot and has stodgy bits of dumpling in. (E2A: Just read a few recipes where that seems commonplace) They do quorn in the brown stew too but I never fancied that.
 
tarannau said:
There are a fair few Ital types who shun meats (and often fish) but I wouldn't say that there's a particularly strong tradition of veggie food out there. Folks love their cook up and meat generally. Chicken feet, fish eye and bone marrow are all much loved and crunched upon.
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Most of the time in JA I ate a "veggie plate" which is generally callaloo, boiled food (green banana, yam etc), rice + peas, fried dumpling. Ate at a few Ital Rasta places and mostly got a more simple version of the above without salt.

Street food like curried veg or ackie patties, corn on the cob etc were also very nice.
 
Chip Barm said:
Aye, though as much. The takeaway near work does a veggie curry but it's heavy on carrot and has stodgy bits of dumpling in. (E2A: Just read a few recipes where that seems commonplace) They do quorn in the brown stew too but I never fancied that.
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Fried dumpling (johnny cakes) are delicious, getting them free is a bonus.
 
Fried dumpling is fine.

The bits in the curry are like little twists, they're not fried, just cooked in the sauce.
 
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