Local Dishes of the Virgin Islands

Have you ever eaten red grout, Johnny cake, pate`, or bull foot soup served in a calabash bowl?  If not, sit back and enjoy a taste of the Islands.

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  Young Jelly Coconut

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         Red Grout
A cool, delicious, refreshing, unimaginable tropical drink - a young jelly coconut. My favorite breakfast drink!   

Cool, sweet and refreshing. Base is tapioca and guava juice. Topped with home made cream, mmm..

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  Sweet Bread

Local tart is made of flaky crust that almost melts in your mouth.  This tart  has half guava and half coconut filling. A great treat! Some what like the state side fruit cake, but with less assorted  fruits. Nice and moist.

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        Johnny Cakes    Sweet Mangos
Fried dough usually served with fry fish or fry chicken. Mvc-004s.jpg (36590 bytes) Tasty, mouth watering mangos are great as a dessert or alone as a treat!

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         Vienna Cake

    Guavaberry Tart

Frosting on top of cake with  layers of plain cake and various fruit mixtures and mint jelly in between exceedingly  flavored with Crucian Rum!  A Special Occasion Cake.

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Guavaberry Tart is made with guava berries. It is delicious and usually made during Christmas time. Presently, the guava berries is difficult to get in the Virgin Islands and therefore it is imported from other islands.

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Stew Plumb

Fresh Sugar Cane

Orange Peel

Cinnamon Sticks

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Clay Pot

Calabash Bowls

Sorrel (good to make juice).

Roasted Bread Fruit

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Mortar & Pestle

The Mortar and Pestle was used long ago for pounding seasoning. It is still used today in many homes to make some tasty seasoning for fish and meat.

 

I hope you enjoyed the "nin yam" or food. Do come back for more!

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