Holiday Foods

So we just celebrated Divali in November and Christmas is coming up, so what makes these holidays so special for us of course its the celebration of light overcoming darkness for the Hindu and Christian community but I think its' the food too. Divali is celebrated by the East Indian community, if you're not one you look forward to being invited by your friends and neighbors to eat. Other than the channa and aloe, there re other dishes like lapsi' which is a broken wheat, ghee with nuts, raisins and dried fruits. Other than 'mohanbhog' which is prepared just like parasad.

Then there is Christmas which has Spanish and English influences. We got pastelles and poncho de crème from the Spanish. I mentioned in a previous post that we got our baking and broiling methods from the British so that's how we end up baking our ham and turkey, even our popular fruit 'black' cake.

Spanish foods

The Spanish has influenced our culture in many ways. It is especially reflected at Christmas time in our music, song, dance and even our food. Popular foods such s carambola, sapodilla, granadilla, cassava bread, sancocho or sancoche and the most popular of them all pastelles. Pastelles originally were called 'hallaca' from Venezuela. Patella has its origins in the Spanish colonized who came from South America in the 16th or 17th century.
Pastelles is most popular dish around Christmas time and Trinidadian love to eat
pastelles with chow chow, ketchup or garlic sauce.