A different shrimp dish...

Homesick Texan as usual hits it out of the park...

I love shrimp just about any way you can serve them but I am always on the lookout for new ways to cook the critters.

These "Pickled shrimp with lime"are just the thing...

Not so guilty "Poke"...

Guilty Carnivore is my kinda person...

What a great recipe!

Caribbean style pork loin...

One of our favorite cats chartering in the USVI/BVI is Maralonga... We have known them for ages and a highlight of any visit to the VI's is being invited over for a meal! Gus and Marcella always make something wonderful and we really envy the folks lucky enough to charter them for a whole week... Certainly not a charter where anyone will lose weight!

We will be seeing them next week and apparently pork loin is on the menu...

Caribbean style pork tenderloin

2 pork tenderloin (about 2 pounds)
1 can coconut milk (not cream of coconut)
1 small package raisins
1 handful coconut flakes (like for cakes) or as much as you want to add
salt, pepper, hot sauce, ( brown sugar and rum – if you like)

Prepare the pork tenderloin some hours or a day before: soaking in a mix of little bit oil with some spritzer of hot sauce
In a pan heat light oil or butter (I take butter, the meat gets a nice brown crust)
then add the tenderloin and fry it slowly, turn it on all sides - brown crust outside inside pink
add the coconut milk, raisins and coconut flakes and let the meat some time simmer in it, it depends how you like it done (medium or well done)
turn it from time to time so it doesn’t stick on the pan
add salt, pepper, hot sauce and maybe a little bit sugar – and if you like add some rum

Cut the meat in medallions, decorate it on a plate and sprinkle the sauce on it, the left over sauce place in a saucier at the table .

Mussels...

Coconut and Lime gets it just right...
Mussels with Fennel and Chorizo


One of the few problems with living in the Caribbean is that Mussels are not really local and most of the Mussels available are from France or New Zealand.

Makes me want to point the boat towards France!

Photo from Coconut and Lime...

Squid done right...

One of our favorite blogs Casco Bay Boaters hipped us to this "How to" from the Harbor Fish Market on cleaning squid...



Now that you know how to clean the critters... Here's a no fail recipe for squid that you will enjoy, from Accidental Hedonist who have a wonderful Squid Stir Fry recipe...

Is not life grand?

Do the right thing...

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