Caribbean-style rice & beans

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Maciek and I have been on a diet for the past month, so I haven’t been posting nearly as many delicious food posts recently. Here’s a fun Caribbean-style rice & beans dish that I made Bento boxes of for lunch this week:

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Each portion contains:

  • 50 g (dry) black turtle beans with 2 tsp coconut milk powder
  • 25 g (dry) organic red cargo rice
  • 80 g mashed sweet potatoes with 5 g butter, cinnamon, nutmeg, chili, cayenne, paprika and salt
  • half a banana with lemon juice, cinnamon and cayenne, baked at 225 F for 2 hours
Nutritional Information
Calories: 428
Fat: 7 g
Carbohydrate: 80 g 
Protein: 13 g

Tulita New Year’s Eve Feast

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Feast Season in Tulita, basically

December is Feast Season in Tulita. Various groups host community dinners for the whole town. The Band hosted Tulita’s New Year’s Eve feast this year. As a rare treat, this feast was Chinese food. Now, there’s nowhere in Tulita where you can purchase Chinese food, so for this feast, Chinese food was flown in from Yellowknife on the daily scheduled flight.

I have a theory that all northern towns use the same supplier for their Chinese food. The Chinese food from Yellowknife tastes exactly like the Chinese food in Fort Simpson, which apparently tastes exactly like the Chinese food in small towns all across northern BC. For city folks, it brings back memories of Chinese food from the late 20th century, when the general idea was to coat poor-quality meat with lots of fried dough and then dip it in brightly-coloured sugar sauces.

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Makes me nostalgic for my childhood…

Iron Chef: Peanut Butter

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For Evan’s birthday, we did IRON CHEF: PEANUT BUTTER. Everyone had to bring an appetizer, main, and/or dessert, with peanut butter as the featured ingredient in every dish. Here were some highlights:

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slow-cooked grouse kebabs in a peanut-coconut sauce
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oatmeal peanut bars coated in chocolate
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chocolate-peanut lava cake
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peanut butter cupcakes with jam filling and peanut butter icing
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asian-style peanut sauce pasta
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chilled peanut cabbage and pasta salad