Raising Children to Weather the Storm
Ackee and Saltfish is Jamaica’s national dish. We had a ackee tree in our front yard back home. It’s always been one of my favorite meals growing up. We’d go outside and pick fresh ackee for our Sunday breakfast. My mom made it with fried dumpling, green banana, festival, hard-dough bread, bammy, fried plantains, or roasted bread-fruit….
Jamaican rice and peas is a staple in any Jamaican household. My mom often made it every Sunday with curry chicken, oxtail, curry goat, escovitch fish or some other kind of meat. But I have to admit, Jamaican rice and peas wasn’t my favorite dish growing up. I didn’t like peas, so I’d pick out every single…
