Jamaican cuisine, favorite dishes?

DonaA: I love Scotchies too. Their fish in the foil and the jerk chicken are out of this world. My favorite Jamaican foods are: Jerk chicken with rice and peas, curried goat, oxtail and more rice, ackee and saltfish, steamed snapper and of course more rice, and all the various Jamaican soups. One of my all time favorites is "mackerel run down" with some roasted breadfruit and a big chunk of pear (avocado) on the side with some lemonade to wash it down. (It's really limeade since Jamaicans use a lot of lime.) For Easter, I like steamed fish and rice or ground provisions, sorrel drink, bun and cheese, of course.

Sublimeonelove, I envy you right now. There's so much snow in the north, I can't even get out of my driveway.Life's not a BEACH, but this is where the jobs are. I guess I'll just have to stay in and make pumpkin beef soup. Sigh.

Not Jamaican, but Jamerican. Every time we visit, got to have Jerk. Pork and chicken. Scotchies has great jerk. Best is to get it from the roadside vendors. Also love Patties. Can't get enough of those. Really like Curry Goat also.

Ackee and saltfish

Bammy

Blue drawers

Bulla

Bun

Christmas cake (Black Cake or Fruit cake)

Coco bread

Cowcod soup

Curried goat

Cut cake

Duckanoo

Escovitch fish

Festival

Fish tea

Fritters

Gizzada

Grater cake

Hard dough, or hard dough bread

Ital food

Johnny cake

Mannish water

Matrimony

Patties

Pepperpot soup

Pone

Pumpkin soup

Red peas soup

Rice and peas

Rundown

Solomon gundy -Spinners

Stamp and go

Stew peas

Tie-a-Leaf

Turned cornmeal

Real, slow cooked, jerk pork. Mmmmm. It's pork rubbed with a combination of herbs, spices and hot pepper, then slowly smoked over green pimento wood (wood from the allspice tree) I also love their pepper pot soup. It's not spicy (even though the name sounds like it is). It's made with a callaloo (a local green), very delicate flavor. Delicious. I'm a big fan of Jamaica rice and peas (really small red beans and rice, lightly spiced, steamed with coconut milk) and Jamaican patties as well (a pastry "hand pie"/turnover filled with spicy beef or callaloo)

Jamaican Jerk Chicken. To find my out how they do it check my link below.

not Jamaican but from the Caribbean. I enjoy jamaican food. best is oxtails when done RIGHT! lil hot bonnet sauce (I like putting cilantro puree in mine). w/ plantains fried (yes I'm Dominican) or jasmine rice- the best white rice and it just soaks up that oxtail stewey flavor. mmmmm.

Fish, boiled dumplings, ackee, yam and my Nan's 'special curry'. Omg, it tastes soo good!

Oh, and coconut rundown is laaavley XD

You can find authentic jamaican foods, & recipies here:

http://foodjamaica.net/

http://www.jamaican-recipes.com/jamaicanfoodpledge...

http://www.jamaican-recipes.com/jamaicanf

ENJOY!!