Category Archives: Haitian

Haitian Style Lamb Boucane

Posted on August 22, 2020 by cookinginsens

Watching my lucky neighbors go off to their lake side cabins or other getaways, wishing I was somewhere else, I thought about Haiti, our friends’ ocean side beach homes and the feasts we used to have; lambi, griot, cabrit boucane, … Continue reading →

Posted in Appetizer, Cooking, Food and Wine, Haitian, Main dishes, Recipes | Tagged cabrit boucane, food cooking, food photography, goat, Haiti, lamb, pikliz, recipe | 7 Comments

An Irish Thanksgiving

Posted on November 25, 2016 by cookinginsens

I saw a gorgeous bacon roast on Bord Bia, the Irish food board, months ago and vowed to make it for Thanksgiving. The side dishes were traditionally Irish; potatoes and cabbage. Because this wasn’t to be the typical Thanksgiving feast, I set … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Dessert, Food and Wine, Haitian, Irish, Soup | Tagged blueberry, cooking, food, food photography, Haitian, Irish, panna cotta, pork roast, pumpkin soup, Thanksgiving, white chocolate | 23 Comments

Goat Ojakhuri

Posted on April 4, 2016 by cookinginsens

I’ve been thinking a lot about “cabrit boucane” or Haitian, twice cooked goat. Why? because I had a package of goat cubes in the freezer. Cabrit boucane is traditionally made by first boiling a cut up whole goat with spices, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Food and Wine, Georgian, Haitian, Indian, Main dishes, Recipes, side dish | Tagged cauliflower, cooking, food, food photography, Georgian, goat, Haitian, Indian, pork, recipes | 14 Comments

Colonel Soupe

Posted on February 2, 2015 by cookinginsens

Our neighbor Caroline gave me one of her garden pumpkins and I immediately thought of Haitian pumpkin soup, joumou. Whenever I think of joumou, I also think of Colonel Jean Claude Paul. Colonel Paul was a corrupt military strong man, heavily … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Food and Wine, Haitian, Main dishes, Recipes, Soup | Tagged cooking, food, food photography, Haiti, joumou, pumpkin, recipe, soup | 39 Comments

Seche a la Creole Haitienne

Posted on July 23, 2014 by cookinginsens

Okay, I’m too old to travel. Because I wanted to cook and post with reasonable pictures, I went out, taking the head of Jade’s tripod with me, and bought another thing that fits on the head of the tripod. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, fish, Food and Wine, Haitian, Main dishes, Recipes | Tagged cooking, creole, cuttlefish, food, food photography, Haitian, lambi, recipe, Seafood | 19 Comments

Italian Sausage Breakfast Hash

Posted on June 29, 2014 by cookinginsens

This breakfast/brunch hash was directly inspired by Frugal Feeding’s Potato and Chorizo Salad. I found some Italian sausage in the freezer (there could be more) that I wanted to move on before I go back to the duck 🙂 Italian … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Food and Wine, Haitian, Japanese, Korean, Main dishes | Tagged breakfast, brunch, cooking, Eggs, food, food photography, hash, Italian, potatoes, recipe, sausages | 26 Comments

Not Chiquetaille d’Hareng Fume

Posted on April 2, 2014 by cookinginsens

I’ve told you about Edmond Pierre in Haiti and the chiquetaille we used to eat on his boat. In fact there were two different types of chiquetaille, one made with dry, salted cod and the other with dry, salted and … Continue reading →

Posted in Appetizer, Cooking, fish, Food and Wine, Haitian, Recipes, Salad | Tagged appetizer, chiquetaille, cooking, food, food photography, Haitian, hareng, herring, kippers, recipe, salad, smoked | 33 Comments

Mirliton Creole

Posted on November 8, 2013 by cookinginsens

Mirliton or chayote is an attractive, pale green squash that I first heard of and had in Haiti. Prepared roasted, boiled, sauteed or stuffed, even squash haters and children like this mild tasting vegetable. Feeling a bit run down and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cooking, Food and Wine, Haitian, Main dishes, Recipes, side dish, Vegetables | Tagged chayote, cooking, creole, food, food photography, Haitian, mirliton, recipes, side dish, vegetarian | 26 Comments

Pikliz!

Posted on August 27, 2013 by cookinginsens

Perusing my blog stats, I noticed that quite a few visitors have been interested in my Haitian griot recipe. Heck, after looking at the recipe, I was interested and decided to make some. Quel coincidence! After I had put my … Continue reading →

Posted in Appetizer, Cooking, Food and Wine, Fruit, Haitian, Main dishes, Recipes, Salad, Vegetables | Tagged condiment, cooking, food, food photography, fruit salad, griot, Haitian, pikliz, pork, recipes, tropical | 31 Comments

Haitian Soupe Giraumon/Joumou

Posted on February 3, 2012 by cookinginsens

Viciously cold this morning and there I was at 6:30 this morning, resentfully walking my husband’s dog. It was nine below zero because I looked it up when I got home. I broke the ice on the dogs water … Continue reading →