Monthly Mingle: Caribbean Cooking

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For this session of the Monthly Mingle I am taking you away to a lovely destination. Pack your bikinis and bathing suits because we are heading on over to the wonderful Caribbean Islands. Beaches, sun, sand, sea and palm trees are all synonymous with this wonderful destination and we'll definitely have it all. The only thing missing is food and drink!

So, I need your help to lay out the festive party table and fill it with delicious food and spectacular cocktails. Let's enjoy a feast of Caribbean flavors and indulge in the mouthwatering plethora of colorful dishes the Caribbean Islands have to offer. From Antigua to the Virgin Islands, this region is known for it's fresh products and exotic ingredients. The cuisine is a fusion of African, Indian, French, Dutch and Spanish flavors so your creations promise to be exciting.

I have invited my dear friend Cynthia of Tastes Like Home to help me with this mingle. Home for Cynthia is the beautiful island of Barbados and her blog depicts not only Caribbean cooking but also her energy and love for her cuisine. Cynthia shares her love for this cuisine and put together a few grand recipes in her first, recently published cookbook My Caribbean Cookbook. She has been kind enough to give away a copy of her cookbook to one lucky winner.

How do you qualify to win? Simple, you just send us your Monthly Mingle Caribbean Cooking creation and Cynthia will pick her favorite dish after the roundup. This person will be the lucky one to receive Cynthia's My Caribbean Cookbook!

Turn up the Caribbean rhythm and get cooking on your Caribbean dish, then bring it on over to the party by 9 March 2009. Make an appetizer, soup, salad or a cocktail. It can be vegan, vegetarian or not! What it has to be is full of Caribbean Cooking flavor!

Here’s how it works:

  1. Create a dish that fits the Caribbean Cooking theme as described above.
  2. Post about it on your blog from now till 9 March 2009 (entries must be in English, please).
  3. Your creation must exclusively be prepared for the current Monthly Mingle theme and cannot be submitted to any other blog event.
  4. You must provide a link to this post and/or the official Monthly Mingle page.

Once you’ve posted your dish, please fill the Monthly Mingle form to send me your entries.

Note: The Monthly Mingle form is the new way to send all your MM entries to me. This ensures that I do not miss your submission if it lands in the spam folder. Please fill out the form carefully filling out the required fields (those marked with *). Upload your image - 300px and below 1 MB - and click on the submit button.

Please do not send me the entries via email. You can easily access the form via the submission button on the sidebar under the section "Come Mingle With Me" or via the official Monthly Mingle page.

If you have any questions, queries or issues drop me an email at blogmeeta[AT]gmail[DOT]com.


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29 comments:

  1. I had made Caribbean Fricassee and rice and peas for the last MM! I think I will have to think about this one. I will try! :))

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  2. I ve never made Caribean. I m curious about these interesting recipes.

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  3. Snooky Doodle, I think you'd have so much fun making Caribbean food! I love that ur doing this! Cynthia has great traditional, and non tos, recipes.

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  4. I've always wanted to make carribean recipes.. this is such a wonderful opportunity! Thanks for choosing this theme, Meeta!

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  5. So, now's the time to invade Cynthia's blog :)

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  6. Never made anything caribbean, will try to send you something yumm.
    And about packing my bikinin, will have to miss i think i won't fit in mine, have to go for a diet for fitting in ;-)

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  7. Very cool! Can't wait to see the lineup of entries. It's going to be terrific!

    Paz

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  8. I have never cooked anything Caribbean but I have surely learned a lot about Caribbean Cooking from our dear friend Cynthia. I shall certainly try and participate.

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  9. LOL guess what I will be making :-)
    Isis

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  10. heyy...just saw that you made it to the top 50 World's Best Blogs on Times Online...CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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  11. Congrats on being named one of the best food blogs in the world!! Good for you! http://is.gd/jRiD.

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  12. Congrats Meeta! Delurked to congratulate you :)

    Will send in something!

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  13. Congrats Meeta for being on the list of the Top 50 blogs. Just love ur blog, the presentation and style and of course the yummy dishes and pics that make everything looks so good and inspiring.

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  14. Congrats on making it to the Times Online World's Best 50 Food Blog, Meeta...YAY!! Just brilliant!

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  15. Hey Lady! Just wanted to let you know that your latest article has now been posted. It looks great...and very very yummy! Thank you so much again for being a part of our Recipe Roundup Team!

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  16. Congratulations Meeta!!
    I am really happy for you,
    best,
    ms

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  17. Congratulations Meeta!! You deserve the best!! So happy for you!

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  18. Love the theme and will try to send,Caribbean is very very new to me and surely Cynthia Blog is very tempting

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  19. Hey, I just checked and found your blog amongst the top 50 chosen by the Times! Good going girl!Keep it up:) You are the only Indian there. Made me so proud and happy for you!

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  20. Congratulations, Meeta, for your blog making it to the Times' list of top 50 food blogs! Yay! Here's the link if you haven't seen the article as yet: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article5561425.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1

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  21. I am just going to sit back and enjoy reading everyone's entries, Meeta. I have no intention to blog anything whatsoever. Good luck with this month's mingle. Must be fantastic with all Caribbean cooking :)

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  22. Fantastic idea, Meeta :-) I have already ordered my copy of Cynthia´s cookbook :-) Will try to participate anyhow...

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  23. Congratulations on making the Top 50 list of food blogs!!! I found out through a link on Dorie Greenspan's blog. Keep up the good work!

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  24. I just sent in mine...

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  25. What a great idea! :)
    We are just back from our honeymoon in Jamaica so I will send something your way shortly....

    Enjoy your weekend, Margot

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Thank you for visiting What's For Lunch, Honey? and taking time to browse through my recipes, listen to my ramblings and enjoy my photographs. I appreciate all your comments, feedback and input. I will answer your questions to my best knowledge and respond to your comments as soon as possible.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy your stay here and that I was able to make this an experience for your senses.

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Meeta