Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

2 quarts water
1 lb. soup meat (chicken, chicken feet or beef etc)
1/2 pack grace cock noodle
2 lbs. pumpkin diced
2 med. white potatoes diced
1 piece of yam diced
And additional ground provision as desired (sweet potato etc.)
2 stalks escallion
2 sprigs thyme
1 large carrot
1 scotch bonnet pepper
1 clove garlic
pimento seeds
Wheelers/ Dumplings
salt to taste

Method

1. Put water in large soup pan.
2. Add meat, garlic, pepper, thyme, escallion, pimento and bring to rapid boil.
3. Add meat and let cook for hour until almost cooked then add pumpkin, potato and yam etc.
4. Make and add wheelers/ dumplings and diced carrot
5. Stir thoroughly and add cock noodle soup for final 20 minutes or until all ingredients are cooked.
6. Taste and season accordingly.

Cook Up Rice (One Pot)

Ingredients

1/2 lb cooked meat (chicken, sausages)
1/4 lb salt meat ( beef or pork etc.)
4 1/2 cups water
2 or 3 blades escallion
2 tbsp. cooking oil
2 cups rice
pepper to taste
1 onion
1 or 2 tomatoes
thyme or parsley
1 tsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Worcestershire sauce

Method

1. Wash and soak salt meat and prepare seasonings.
2. Heat the oil, add sugar and fry till it bubbles.
3. Add seasonings, fry till golden brown.
4. Cut salt meat into neat pieces and add to seasoning with water, rice and salt.
5. Put to boil. Remove skin and bones from cooked meat, cut into pieces.
6. Add to rice when it is nearly done.
7. For added flavor, add a tablespoon cooking butter just before serving and Worcestershire sauce.

Jamaican Rice and Peas

Ingredients

3 cups rice (washed)
1 cup red peas (red kidney beans)
Few sprigs thyme
1 medium sized coconut or 1 bag of maggie coconut milk powder
Salt as per taste
1 clove garlic
1 scotch bonnet pepper
2 stalks escallion
1/4 tsp. black pepper (optional)
1  quart boiling water

Method

1. Grate coconut and using the quart of hot water, express the milk by adding two cups of water at a time and squeezing the milk through a sieve after each addition until the water is finished. OR dissolve packet of coconut milk powder in water.

2. Place pre washed and soaked peas in a saucepan with the coconut milk and add the clove of garlic slightly bruised. Cook until peas are tender, but not overcooked.

3. Add escallion, thyme, salt, scotch bonnet or black pepper and rice, adding more water if necessary in order to boil rice properly.

4. Cook over medium heat, covered, stirring once or twice until rice is well cooked.