I was happier behind the video camera which is unusual, I grant you.
After getting my hand smacked the last time there was a Bajan cookery lesson.
My Bajan friends were back in town, cooking, mixing cocktails and dancing.
So it would have been rude not to join in when the music started.
Particularly as I’d some spicy Bajan food and rum punch to burn off.
Now the thing I found out in Barbados is that rum can be a vital ingredient in the food. https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/rihanna-in-barbados/
And https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/my-kiss-with-rihanna/
Breakfast of champions
I even found it in the sweet treats at the breakfast buffet on my first trip to Barbados (and the bread) for Crop Over, their carnival.
The best breakfast I had was made by my friend Donna who hosed myself and her husband Jevan down, washing off the paint and mud, after Foreday Morning. Before filling us with carbs.
And I then went down to Sandals for my second breakfast http://www.sandals.co.uk/barbados.
Now over to Ruby, and a cookery lesson at Club Barbados http://www.clubbarbados.com on the Platinum West.Coast on my Tropical Sky http://www.tropicalsky.ie trip to the Caribbean.
Cou-cou is on the menu. It is Barbados’s national dish.
The thing is that you stir the cou-cou, okra or cornmeal, with a 1ft cricket bat-style (it’s their national sport) cou-cou stick.
Which is what Ruby is wielding here.
Eat your cou-cou as an accompaniment to flying fish.
And here’s some rum punch which will be thrust into your hand the moment you land on the island.
As made by our cool as ice mixologist on the night in Dublin this week.
It’s about three minutes so you might want to get your Mount Gay, which means rum, out and pour yourself a rum and coke while you watch.
Now there’s a lot going on in Barbados, culinary, slow tourism, adventure tourism (scuba, snorkel, in fact any kind of water sports).
It is 10 years of Barbados Food & Rum from October 24-27 http://www.foodandrum.com. Also visit http://www.visitbarbados.org.
And check out the road tennis!
As they say on Barbados…
MEET YOU ON THE ROAD
