I am incredibly impressionable. We went out for dinner to the
new Caribbean restaurant recently and I immediately came home and started
researching Caribbean recipes. Now, for my tastes there is a lot of fruit kicking
about in their savoury recipes. This is most definitely NOT in my wheelhouse. Like
pineapple on a pizza, mango in a curry
is not acceptable to me.
But, I like lots of other aspects – the bbq charred aspect,
coconut EVERYWHERE, rice with all kinds of stuff in it.. I’m well up for all of
that. Also, a lot of this style of food was “on the bone” which is fine and delicious,
but I am a creature of habit and I usually default to cooking with chicken breasts. But if you have
chicken thighs around, feel free to marinade them instead!
Now, for the rice part, I know traditionally you have kidney
beans in it, but I didn’t have any on hand, and I don’t really like them
anyway. So I added some extra veggies, and forgot about the beans. feel free to add them if you like them, this is a very laid back style of cooking, just go with what feels right.
