Belize + Chocolate = The Perfect Vacation. Our guide to 6 Outstanding Belizean Chocolate Bars!
Belize equals amazing Chocolate! If you are a chocolate lover you have heard about and likely tasted the…
Rice and Beans: A Belizean Food Blog
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Seven Foods NOT to Eat in Belize (And What to Eat Instead)
Pretty much every resort and tourism industry website in Belize has a blog post about what you should…
What is Belizean Food? A Retrospective on Belizean Cuisine on our 40th Independence.
Many visitors to Belize are not sure what Belizean cuisine is all about. The truth is we Belizeans…
Dalla Wap!
Walking south down Main Street, Placencia Village, Stann Creek District, Belize on a beautiful sunset evening, you may…
Belizean Rums of the South
Once you enter the Caribbean basin, whether you are on the mainland or our neighboring island nations, you…
An ideal treat: one of Belize’s iconic frozen snacks.
Behold the incredible edible plastic bag of bliss known to Belizean children across the country as an ideal.…
Belizean Conch Soup Recipe
Conch soup is a traditional coastal dish in Belize. Queen conchs are those big beautiful snail shells you…
Belize’s Incredible Edible Seaweed!
Seaweed smoothie anyone? If you aren’t familiar with the wonderful world of edible seaweeds, you might be imagining…
Twelve Things You Should Eat and Drink in Placencia, Belize!
Much as I tire of the trend in recent years towards making lists and calling them articles, this…
Life Goals: Bite Yu Finga! Innovating Belizean Cuisine
I am beyond excited because my book has finally been published! 8 years of on the ground research,…
Belizean Stew(ed) Chicken Recipe!
Belize’s iconic dishes, stewed chicken. If you have ever visited or lived in Belize you have sampled this,…
Belizean Creole Bread
This is one of those breads that my mother never made but that always reminds me of home…
A Tale of Hot Sauce: The Cult of Marie Sharp’s
Anyone who is from or has ever been to Belize knows about Marie Sharps hot sauce. It’s like…
Belizean style Habanero Pepper Sauce
I originally posted a recipe for homemade habanero pepper sauce (also called onion sauce, depending on the ratio…
Chu’uk Wa. Part 1 of My Personal Belize Food Bucket List
We call Belize The Jewel for good reason. Our country is small, almost exactly the size of the…
I Love Mangoes! And a Recipe.
Yes, its a mango. In Belize we call this a “slippas mango” for its supposed resemblance to a…
How to Make Belizean Style Rice and Beans
In a prior post I talked about making rice the Belizean way. You wash the rice until all…
Belizean Stew(ed) Beans (the secret ingredient is the Pigtail)
I love stewed beans-called “stew beans” in Belizean Kriol. Everyone eats them in Belize and although the seasonings…
Belizean Coconut Rice Recipe
Traditionally the Creole and Garifuna people of Belize cook their rice with coconut milk. This style of rice…
Johnny Cake Recipe (My Way)
I think a fish head is probably one of the more controversial aspects of seafood consumption in the…
Mark’s Serre: a tale of the Belizean Love Affair with Coconut
The Coconut. Round, brown, full of tasty white meat. Stacked up like cannon balls in your grocery store.…
Blogging from Belize and Papaya Pickles
That’s right folks, I’m in Belize again, for three solid weeks on the farm before I return to…
Homemade Belizean Pepper Sauce
The habanero, long famed as the world’s hottest pepper, has in recent years lost that title to much…