A typical Jamaican Meal week

You would never believe it, but quite often Jamaicans have a kind of food rota with most people nationwide eating the same meal every week.
Saturday and Sunday especially.
I found this typical week on the internet and have copied here for your enjoyment.


SUNDAY
Breakfast
Boiled bananas, ackee & saltfish, hot cocoa made with cow's milk, bread Dinner
Rice & peas (1 pint peas, 1/2 coconut, 2 lbs. rice), steamed cho cho and carrots, Kool Aid
MONDAY
Breakfast
Green banana porridge, sardine (3 tins) and bread
Dinner
Kidney -- with spinners and carrots -- yam, green bananas
TUESDAY
Breakfast
Mint tea, steamed callaloo and bread
Dinner
1 tin corn beef with macaroni and 2 lbs. rice
WEDNESDAY
Breakfast
Fried plantains, scrambled eggs mixed with 1 tin sausage
Dinner
Curried chicken back with cho cho and white rice
THURSDAY
Breakfast
Cornmeal porridge, cheese sandwich
Dinner
Salt fish with cho cho
yam, dumpling, green banana
FRIDAY
Breakfast
Fried overnight dumplings with cabbage and sausage
Dinner
Red peas soup
SATURDAY
Breakfast
Plantain porridge
boiled eggs
Dinner
Stewed beef with beans, rice and yam
Lunch (Tie a leaf is made on Saturday, sweet potato maybe roasted and fruits)
Note: For weekday lunches they pack cheese and lettuce sandwiches, mashed baked beans, peanut butter, left over chicken or muffins with cheese. Club Social biscuits or banana chips are sometimes added as snacks.

If you feeling Hungry after all that here is a recipe for cornmeal Porridge

Cornmeal Pudding

2 cans Coconut milk
1 lb. Cornmeal
1 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Flavoring
4 oz. Raisins or Currants
½ cup Flour
1 quart Water
Combine all other ingredients in a large mixing bowl and use a whisk to mix together.
Pour mixed ingredients into a greased cake pan and bake on 350-400 degrees fahrenheit.
Check pudding after 30-40 minutes to see if the top is solid. You can stick a knife in the center of the pudding to see if the inside is soft. If it is soft, allow the pudding to bake some more.
Wait for the cornmeal pudding to cool and serve it with ice cream or you can serve it warm just by itself.

Jamaican Industry Links

Just a list of random links that I expect to expand one day

Theatre and Filmmaking

http://bestofcaribbeantales.wordpress.com
The CaribbeanTales Annual Film Festival is based in Toronto, Canada been going dfor 5 years and is a good place to find out who's who in the tiny Caribbean filmamking industry.
Features ans article on Ras Kassa who directed the Tic Toc video by Busy Signal


http://www.jamaicanlifestyle.com/davidpinto.htm (br>


http://www.utech.edu.jm/Centres/Arts/Services.htm

www.pramsinternational.comAll the good stuff you could enjoy if you visited


www.iriepeople.com more good stuff


http://www.islands.com/jamaica/ a touristity kind of site


http://www.top5jamaica.com/thearts.html I thought i knew this site.More good stuff right here


http://www.wcities.com/en/guide/gen_intro/158/guide.html a tourist guside to all the nice places


http://www.colin-f.com/jamaican_art/ This has all the modern artists like chong here

http://www.ayaso.com/naturaljamaica/ take a close look at the name


http://www.ayaso.com/naturaljamaica/ church site




Jamaican sports

http://jamaicamotorsports.com/mt/ My Brother would love this so much 

Obeah

Dihah MALLICA REYNOLDS (KAPO)


At work today, someone came and asked me a question about Obeah.

Before this man came up to me , my day had been dull, I had been checking my favourite bookmarks on the pc, seeing what they said, I had been wondering about men, death, and why.

Suddenly this question roused me from the depth of my slumbers, my mind became alive again.
I wondered briefly, fleetingly, if I had done Caribbean studies instead of Art studies, would I have gone further in my life?

Then I recollected a work, Voodoo by Wade Davis
His book, the Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of Haitian Zombie
My mind was awake again

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/index.htm#caribbean

I also had to ask myself about the whole of Obeah which just seemed tobe more an ide that a practice

Social Networking

My brother wants an iphone, so naturally, I am on the look out for one. I came across this article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/

on the BBC I was chuffed, its nearly £100 cheaper, so I was counting the days until it was released here, so I could get it for him.
Imagine my surprise when I clicked on something called friend feed and found this mirad of social networking sites!
http://friendfeed.com/about/

Where did they all come from? There is even a place called Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/
which seems to be a rival to youtube, are they mad?