Food!

Picture diary of some of the food experiences here!

Authentic Dominican fish soup with provisions and dumplings.  So good!!
The fresh fruit juice is one thing everyone loves.  We finally got a blender and made our own passion fruit juice this week.

Of course we have plenty of fresh fish!  This is the Portsmouth market - 1 mile from us.  There is also a "fish truck" that comes by the house occasionally.  We order eggs and organic lettuce on the phone and they drop off at the house!

There are quite a few Chinese Restaurants, but one good one we've found is next door to us.  "Golden Dragon" - Chicken Lo Mein, Chinese Broccoli, Fish with Vegetables and steamed dumplings.  

Another restaurant has good Chinese, Thai dishes and bubble tea.  They utilize a customer service model that is typical here.  Food takes 45 min at least and they generally ignore you.  These signs are posted at the counter.

Lemon grass and cinnamon are locally produced

 

Portsmouth Market - lots of fresh veggies and fruit always available here, but often hard to find at grocery stores

I use the bread machine a lot - we go through 3-4 of these loaves every week

Dad's veggie-carb cooking!  Pasta and cheese toast!  Elijah loves the local pepper sauce

Here's what we use for powdered milk.  You can buy "regular" milk, but it's about $7 for a half-gallon

Sweet plantains are really easy to make, cheap, and delicious.  Kids haven't taken to it yet, but I could eat these every day.

Beer comes in 10oz bottles: Kabuli is Dominican, they have lager and shandy that is good, Dragon Stout is from Jamaica and  Makeson Stout is from St. Kitts.  Carib is from Trinidad and similar to Corona.  There is also 10 Saints from Barbados that is aged in rum barrels.

Fried chicken with Jerk BBQ sauce & plantains!  Most of the meat is imported from the States, which I find odd since there are chickens and goats running around everywhere here.

Some "provisions" - plantains, yams and green bananas.  I made a green banana curry that was good - they are very similar to potatoes and have to be boiled before you can peel them.

There are often "double-take" moments in the grocery store here.  Ketchup is commonly sold in bags here, for example.