Gasparillo Junction
Gasparillo Junction Blog, named after the village where I grew up in Trinidad is a platform for me to showcase recipes I create at home for myself and friends. Tips and tricks to make your single life cooking and home cooking experience just as easy and fabulous as mine and to breathe new life into the cooking process, making restaurant-quality meals fun, quick, and accessible to the average single lady or gentleman.
My cooking style comprises four basic elements:
1. Caribbean flavors
2. Simple ingredients
3. Easily replicable techniques
4. Beautiful plating
Call me Chef LAM, but being a chef doesn’t mean I know everything about food and the food industry. I am always down to learn more and receive feedback on my recipes. This is a journey we’re taking together, so I want to hear about the recipes you create for your single life. I look forward to reading your comments and please don’t be shy to leave your cooking tips.
It sweet too bad!
I love when friends call me with casual invites to catch up! With its promised laughs in attempt to shift focus from the shitty state of the nation; conversations that provoke thoughts of how better we can be our sister’s keeper and the ever so NYC thing to do -...
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Provincial Trini
While catching up with my brother, an occurrence that happens most times over internet messaging, today I made a well needed international call to Trinidad. Whether typed out or spoken aloud, our light conversations always start off with “so, what yuh drinking these...
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Trini Food. This is my story
A web designer recently asked me ‘what sets you and your blog apart from others?’ She, a trini and design professional based in Philly, asked many questions in hopes of us working together to ‘pretty up’ d blog nah - yuh know. Our informal phone call was great, I’ve...
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Tea Time at Eloquii
I can’t recall how I got introduced to Eloquii, though I have thick, solid colored sweater dresses for cooler months, wide fashionable belts and comfortable skirts made of printed fabric in my closet more than five years old, or what my first order off the on-line...
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Never too much
Sweet Plantains with Sautéed Onions, Tomatoes and Jalapeños To this day I still enjoy eating boiled sweet plantains as a side dish, to accompany many a Sunday brunches. And with it being packed with Vitamins A, C and minerals like Potassium, I’m left feeling less...
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Burger Badassness
What kind of burgers do you like? In passing, this was the question I asked a selective few of my colleagues at the job last week. Most don’t know my first love–cooking, started in my mother’s kitchen and not in accounting class in Champ Fleurs, Trinidad. I’m okay...
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Sweet Plantain Pancakes
From your view it must look like all I cook is breakfast and brunch food. Cheddar, Strawberry Crème Fraiche Biscuits; how I use my ‘one cup’ rule to make just enough Fry Bakes for my single life cooking; Shakshuka for hosting brunch at home for friends and Lavender...
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Trini-Mex!
What better occasion than Cinco de Mayo to have a delicious overlapping of cultures with these Curry Goat Tacos to serve to friends. Two years ago while still figuring out if blogging was a direction I should go, I wrote a ‘Taco Night’ post on Tumblr. Three short...
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The Rule of Three – Mango Margaritas
I don’t drink margaritas often but on the annual occasion I do, I enjoy making a no-fuss cocktail at home. Originally I set out to make mango basil margaritas for my friends to celebrate this year’s Cinco de Mayo. Though not an ingredient traditionally used to make...
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Vinateria!
Brunch at Vinateria Restaurant in Harlem, NY. New Yorkers are serious about their brunch. It’s our last love session with the weekend before heading back to work, our hoorah before the purge that is ‘Meatless Monday’ and the meal that combats the hangover from...
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