Hi There!! Here are some pictures from the weekend event at the Grand Opening of Rail B Service Station on the Southern Highway, Toledo, Belize. We had fun…good to get out and socialise! There was a lot of interest in our Copal products; it is good to see that there is a demand for natural medicines. Anyway, here are some pictures:
Paul Mahung was in top form. For all our International readers, he is our usual Master of Ceremonies down her in Toledo; you can’t have an event without MC. Mahung.
More Pictures…Well done, Isabel…
Lots of music and entertainment…this was an East Indian dance:
The ribbon cutting:
And of course, we had the traditional celebration food for lunch…cohune cabbage!!
More harvests from the farm…the ducks have been laying so we have been eating lovely eggs. Here in Belize, the shop bought eggs are really, really bad…they are runny and the yolks are anaemic. You can’t even make a proper custard with them…believe me, I have tried and I ended up with a yellow snot that won’t thicken. Thanks to our Zazen duckies for their contribution to the farm!
It’s getting hot again in Belize as the dry season continues. Vanilla Agar Cubes is a really nice cooling dessert for these hot days. I managed to find agar at the Taiwanese store though I am sure that you could find some in a health food store in Belize. It’s a really easy recipe…light and refreshing.
After the big rain, everything has started to pick up again. We have bananas coming out of our ears; we have been making banana flour. Also, just eating them ripe and green. Dogs, cat, piggies and duckies have obligingly helped us out with the bountiful harvest.
If you ever look through my Belize Wild Recipes section, you will know that I like “mixing it up” and revel in being non-traditional in my invention of meals. I am indeed a Rebel Cook!! ;). Anyway, I’ve cooked an Italian Style meal to eat with fry jacks. Just in case you don’t know, fry jacks are puffed up dough traditionally eaten in Belize with refried beans or eggs for breakfast. Well, I am being twice the rebel because I have modified it into Italian and Brunch!
A while back, we received a few interesting and useful gifts from a visiting friend. Since a lot of these things can’t be found in Belize, I’d like to go through them (if you will allow me to indulge). Good quality items are hard to come by in Belize so we were really pleased to receive this stuff.
Fry Jacks are puffed up fried dough eaten traditionally in Belize for breakfast. They are usually served with refried beans or eggs. I love fry jacks but I have never been able to achieve a good result with recipes found on the Internet. I mentioned this in passing to a Belizean friend and she was aghast at the fact that I had not mastered the art of Fry Jacks after all these years and promptly organised a lesson for me.
For the people of Punta Gorda, we have a fresh batch of coconut cream at Green Supaul’s. You can’t miss it…it’s in the same freezer as the ice cream and the almond Snickers bars. Here is a snapshot to remind you!
Oooooh! We got a whole load of goodies from Singapore. It always feels like Christmas when we open up the box and let all the lovely South-East Asian jars, bottles and silver-foiled packets roll out. We really miss Real Chinese food!!
It has been soooo hot and dry lately…as they say here in Belize, “The heat punish me.” The other morning, Gnome left the house and said that he was going to mow around the farm. He was gone for a fair bit and I didn’t hear the motor starting so I went to look for him. Well, he certainly wasn’t mowing because the cat had nicely settled down for the day!
