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Borrowing this topic from another forum - it makes my mouth water.
What do you all enjoy cooking at your villa? Who cooks? How often?
On my last visit - 16 days - we split between dining in and dining out....and I am the cook when we dine in. This was our menu plan for this last visit. I have recipes for any of these that I can email out - and a full shopping list in an Excel file that lists every ingredient needed, and is separated into two columns - 1. non-perishable items that can be taken down in suitcases or shipped and 2. perishables that need to be purchased on island.
One of my favorite things to do is have cocktails and cook with friends. If I am the only one cooking, that's fine....(actually, that's better)....but I like to make it social. I've even knocked out 1/2 of a wall between my kitchen and dining room, making it like an island with seats, so that I could cook and entertain more freely. I hear the ladies now - "Blu, that's sick - you want to COOK on vacation and it relaxes you??!!"....I know, but I DO!
Some of my recipes a little complex, but most are simple.
Dinners Include:
Curried Conch
Red Snapper Grilled in Banana Leaves
Mediterranean Pizza
Grilled Chicken Kebabs in Pita Pockets with Greek Cream Sauce
Grilled Caribbean Lobster Pizza
Chicken Roti
Texas Bar-b-que
Thai Shrim Curry
Sides include:
Plantains Grilled with Balsamic-Basil Glaze
Cous-Cous (veggie, curried or parmasean)
Grilled eggplant
Grilled Green and Yellow Zucchini Fans
Avocado Salad
Greek Salad
Mexican Ceviche
Lunches:
Gazpacho
Grilled Veggie Sandwiches with Pesto
Grilled Portobello steak sandwiches
Curried Chicken Salad
Breakfasts:
Caribbean French Toast (made with french bread stuffed with bananas)
Huevos Rancheros
Eggs Benedict with Salmon
Lox (regular grilled Salmon instead) and Bagels with cream cheese, red onion and capers
Various omlets, which can easily incorporate the leftovers from the night before, especially, steaks or veggies --- shhhhhh, don't mention "leftovers" in my house! Bad word!
Desserts:
Coconut Sorbet
Passion Fruit Sorbet
Flan
Cocada - coconut custard
Lemon Mousse with fresh berries
Creamy Mango Sorbet
Also, for desserts, we took packets of Betty Crocker cookie mix with us and made cookies on some nights in the villa - serve with a bowl of ice cream and you've got instant sugar pleasure!
You can cook. You can write. What else do you do?
Count me in on those recipes! My e-mail is in my profile, just click on my name 🙂
KK - here's what I cannot do - make money at cooking and writing 🙁
Blu,
That sounds like a fantastic menu! Please send me the recipes as well. [email protected]
Thanks,
Kelly
aka islander@heart on the relo board
Hey Blu..please send me the recipes too!! In may we plan to do exactly that...cook, relax and have fun.
Excellent menus
You are making me hungry! I end up having to scale back my cooking based on the availability of ingredients on St. John. I may need to make a grocery trip to St. Thomas this year.
Cheers, RickG
I'd love your recipes. I'm like you some of my most enjoyable times are when I'm cooking for other people. If you want any of mine let me know
Bluewater,
I'd love to get the recipes.....! [email protected]
One hundred and thirty-six days and counting until we are back in paradise!
Just when you thought you had free time Blu....now you have to e-mail everyone whith recipes!!
Man...I thought I was organized!
Bluwater, I would really appreciate it if you could send me those recipes also. You are such a great help to everyone on this site. What would we do without you? Thanks again, Lana
bluwater - I hate to even ask, but can you send them to me also? I assume you have access to my e-mail account, I just got registered the other day. thanks so much!
Lora
I don't want your recipes, I just want to come for dinner!
Hi everyone.
To make it easier, these recipes will be on my website by tomorrow evening. I will work on creating the page tonight and the headers are already up. You will be able to save it as a PDF or print directly from the site.
Hope you all enjoy! Let me know if you try a recipe, and what you think about it. Also, if you want to submit something for the recipe area, please do!!
Link to Recipe area:
http://villavantage.com//content/view/122/205/
Promoguy, I checked out that Beer Can Chicken recipe today!! I am would have tried it tonight, but Philly is calling for rain and it looks like the sky may open up at any moment. Tomorrow, beer can chicken on the menu! Very cool idea.
Thanks!
~Blu
Beer can chicken is awesome! Juicy AND tasty!
Not to take anything away from Ms Blu, since she is one of my favorite ladies, I might suggest for those who love to cook that they check out www.recipezaar.com. This was actually given to me by MartySTT about a year and half ago. It has most of the recipes that Ms Blu has listed. The site is really about the common folk listing their recipes with comments from other folks. It's not about a bunch of sous chefs and their recipes.
/no disrespect to sous chefs meant
anybody from the mountains of probably WVA (doesn't mean I like your football team) would know that in an instant. I had to convince folks here in Los Angeles that it was a cool thing to do with a chicken.
Now that's one recipe I DO know how to do...beer chicken!! My kids thought I was nuts one day when I did that for them!
Would ya believe they actually sell a gizmo that you can use to do that....I'm thinking it was at Wal-Mart!
