So what is the following and what Christmas memories does it bring back for you?





More to come . . .

Thats Sorrel with flower we use to make our traditional christmas drink....Mmmmm,hope i will be able to get a bottle this christmas.Where i am i have to substitute that with red wine....taste really good with the christmas cake.

that is sorrell and oh it brings back alot of memories tooo me remeber having a little cup of sorrell with one likkle piece ah flour cake

The first time I had sorrell was up in the hills in the countryside of Hanover.
Good stuff !!
I was surprise to know that it was make from a plant.
ONE LOVE !!
Mike

I had some sorrel just Saturday and I'm in Canada. Everytime I drink I have to remember my little fishing village and the people in it in Jamaica.

Yes, that is sorrel. I enjoyed some really good tasting sorrel last Saturday night at a Caribbean function in Atlanta, Georgia and a great play too, of course put on by Caribbean people.

Miss my beautiful Treasure where I grew up.

Good job, Treasure Beach.Net.

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to Treasure Beach.

Carol Reynolds-Saunders.

Anyone have a good sorrel recipe they would like to share?

Now for the next photo . . .

What is this and what Chirstmas memories does it bring back?

Gungo peas of course. Christmas dinner is not complete without gungo rice & peas. I could pick them from the computer screen!

That is gungo peas.
Memories: Sit in kitchen and shell peas with all my cousins. while smelling the aroma of the meat hanging in the outside kitchen with dirt floor. The meat will be smokining from the wood fire. Good times in St Bess.

Gungo Peas....shelling them to make that green gungo peas soup or gungo rice and peas.And not to mention how the tip of the fingers stained with the shelling of the green ones.Hey,hey folks dont forget the bammy to go along with it.

This is Gungo Peas. My grandma used to make gungo and rice for christmas dinner. Its also great when used to make soup.

A little white rum, sugar and a little ginger...and of course your Sorrel (some people use pimento).

GUNGO PEAS!

I remember Mrs Cogle up at Muno making me some Christmas (gungo) soup my first year in JA and loving it!

I remember a few years ago, I was running around working very hard all day and was totally exhausted. As the night was approaching I was hungry, tired and not in the mood for cooking. Then I got a phone call from Mas Vinny Moxam telling me he just made up a big batch of gungo pea soup and I should come and get some. Oh my goodness!! That soup tasted better than just about anything I've ever eaten. Talk about hitting the spot!

This started a yearly tradition and now every year about this time I anxiously await that all important phone call. I've heard via the grapevine the call may be coming at the end of this week. My mouth is already watering!

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout . . .

Not just a goat - curry goat! That too is a Christmas tradition. Maybe I don't know what I am missing, but I am not into the goat - curried or stewed.

Ram goat liver good fi meck manish wata.I am here wondering if that poor creature will end up in the curry pot.

Now that I am older I have learnt to appreciate the goodness and nutritional value of gungo peas soup.As a child we use to put our parents/grandparents through so much agony when they prepared gungo soup for dinner.We would complain that we did not want 'old people dinner' and they would have to find some kind of substitute for us.Little did we know what we were missing.I heard that a bammy wrapped in the shape of a funnel and filled with thick gungo soup makes a great treat for kids.

Since we are on the topic of sorrel and gungo,I have decided to share the following article that was sent to me via e-mail by a friend . It was not taken from any textbook or web page.





Breadfruits roasting on an open fire
Mongrels nipping at your toes
Dancehall songs, being sung by a choir
'An we dress up in we bashment clothes

Everybody knows,
When gungo cook an sorrel flow
Yu dun know seh di season brite
Gal an bwoy wid them starlight a glow
Dem nah go waan fe sleep tonite

Dem know seh joyride deh pon the way
With music, rockin' rockin thru de day
'An all the chicken dem a try fi spy
Fi see is which one a dem is gwine to fry

'An so, we want to big up everyone
All kidz from one to 92
Althou money dun
Have 'hole heap a fun
Irie Chrismus, Irie Chrismus ... to you.

. . . I'm telling you why!

Christmas chores!

Ooooh...makes my mouth water...
I'll be there in a blink of the eye -

So I am hearing that many of you are getting loads of that white stuff up there.

Well, here is my idea of Jamaican snow. It only comes to us this time of year, needs no shoveling, scraping, etc., isn't cold to the touch and has a lovely fragrance.



Of course, as my brother said on the phone today with the 14 inches of snow on the ground and it still snowing in Massachusetts, "Hey, I can put my Red Stripe down anywhere in the yard and it will be ice cold in no time. You try that!"

you made my mouth watered have a safe and happy christmas,

Yes Mas Vinny, the soup is delicious!!!!

Oh Rebecca! I'm longing for some good ole' Jamaican cooking. I think back fondly on all the wonderful times I've shared in Jamaica - especially around the holidays.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!

Sending much love to all,
Miss Amy

Oh Rebecca!

You are a real teaser! Here I am in Western Canada freezing under 3 feet 0f snow with temperatures in the -30 degrees and you are doing this to me. Oh such memories of my paradise lost. But I love it. Keep posting the pictures.

Janadian

My idea of "red out" for the holidays.

3 more sleeps and a red-eye, then I get to see all this fa real!

Last minute brushing, painting, and overall sprucing up are happening. The excitment is building!





Children's Party starts at 2 today at the Kingfisher Plaza!

only 3 more sleeps til treasure beach for me too!!!!

Ahhh hope everyone has a lovely time at the Childrens Party. I will miss not being there and face painting it up! Thank you to the TB Women's Group, Rebecca,Lisa and everyone involved.MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!