I’m going to cheat today, and send you all off to some recipes elsewhere in the Internet that look about right for the sort of food I was eating in Belize.
The Belizian diet seems to be a bit limited. They typically offer fry-jacks and beans and eggs for breakfast along with a juice like mango or watermelon. For lunch and supper it would be beans and rice then either chicken or fish. We also saw a fair amount of letus based salad which none of us were brave enough to eat and potatoes now and then. Even the Chinese restaurant we stopped at featured chicken and seafood. Mind you one of the items on the menu was conch, which they wouldn’t let us order.
What I found interesting was the variety of dishes they could come up with based on that simple selection of Staples. I had a very India tasting curried chicken in the Chateau Caribbean at the beginning of the trip, a Jamaican curried chicken on the Placencia peninsula, and a Chinese version of curried chicken in St. George. At least I think it was St. George. It might have been St. Ignatius. I had a fish pie at the Green Parrot that would amaze you and a barbecued chicken on Songbird Island that was to die for. I ate chicken every day, and didn’t realize it until just now.
The point is that Belizians made do remarkably well with very little.
I haven’t tried out these recipes yet, but the ingredients look about right to fit with what I ate. If you want a taste of Belize, give them a try.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1718,128177-250193,00.html
http://www.reluctantgourmet.com/currych.htm
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http://www.recipehound.com/Recipes/Recipes2/7315.html
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Alice
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