Locavores of Trinidad and Tobago Unite!!

So!!  This is really exciting!  There is a conversation going on right now about eating locavore in Trinidad and Tobago and so I decided to post one week's worth of menu possibilities here.  As some of you know I did an organic, vegan version of this for a few years at my Sun Eaters Cafe in Trinidad but here's one for omnivores.

Breakfast items

• Tannia porridge
• Omelets with local free range eggs from chickens fed with only local feed
• Big big smoothie with frozen bananas, jamun, pineapple, brazil nuts and coconut milk
• Fruit salad with local goats' milk yogurt
• Scrambled eggs (see above) with local ham (from local pigs)
• Sweet potato hash browns with smoked fish (smoked on Karl's branca in Brasso)
• Fast Day - as local as you can get.  Unsweetened fresh watermelon juices until midday.

Lunch Items

• Smoked Chicken piled on grilled yam slices with salad of Katuk leaves and pomerac chow in a lime vinagrette
• Callalloo soup with chunks of pumpkin and 4 different ground provisions.  Add conch for carnivores
• Eddoes souse with shredded chive and chadon bene, grilled eggplant, plantain and pumpkin, pan-fried tilapia
• Large arugula/lettuce salad with goats cheese, cherry tomatoes, marinated topi tamboe (guinea arrowroot), sauteed baby leeks, ortanique slices and  a light pesto dressing.  Side serving of baked redfish.
• Yam pie baked with eggs and hill rice milk.  Buffalypso steak. Aibeka salad.
• Green fig/cucumber salad with lemon juice marinade.  Curried vegetables made with local mix of fresh turmeric and other spices.  Curried fresh beef.  Hill rice.
• Fast Day - Cucumber/Morai/Pumpkin/Beet/Carrot/Coconut/Tomato/Patchoi/Chive/Ginger juices or suitable mixes of the above.  Fresh herbal teas.

Dinner Items

• Loaded pumpkin soup - include ground provisions, mankiller figs, non-endangered crayfish, beef - all cooked and served in separate bowls for optional addition
• Sauteed poi in coconut-lemongrass sauce, christophene pie, patchoi salad
• Smoked grouper sandwiches on cassava bread.  Side cucumber/morai salad.
• Pigeon peas soup with side lettuce/tomato salad
• Green paw paw/chataigne curry, grated daikon salad, lamb chops
• Coconut flesh noodles, stir-fried vegetables (water chestnut, christophene, cabbage and pumpkin) and crispy duck (prepared with local versions of traditional seasonings).
• Fast Day - More juices, smoothies, herbal teas.

And we can do ALOT more than this but we have to get farmers on board with carrots, beets and other produce.  We have to produce more food in our backyard - especially greens that are not traditionally planted, and we have to start saving and sharing seeds at the end of EVERY rotation of annuals.  

I did not include certain seasonal tree crops - breadfruit, mango, avocado - because if we do this in January I don't know how much of these things will be available.  Share your ideas and let's do this.  Now.