Harvest updates, recipes, and stories from our little piece of Trinidad in Missouri.
A full Trinidad corn soup recipe: split peas, pumpkin, corn, dumplings, coconut milk, and fresh pimento in the base. Serves 6 to 8.
Soup Week, day 5: sancoche, the heavyweight. Split peas, provisions, dumplings, coconut milk, and salted meat in one pot, with fresh Trinidad pimento all through the base.
Soup Week, day 4: thick, hearty red bean soup with provisions and dumplings, and green seasoning heavy on the fresh Trinidad pimento.
Soup Week, day 3: fish broth, the cure for everything. Light and clear, with fresh Trinidad pimento in the water before the fish goes in.
Soup Week, day 2: callaloo. Dasheen bush, okra, coconut milk, and pumpkin, swizzled smooth, with fresh Trinidad pimento in the pot from the start.
Five classic Trinidad soups (corn soup, callaloo, fish broth, red bean soup, sancoche) and why every one of them starts with fresh pimento. Recipes and methods inside.
Your fresh Trinidad pimento just arrived. Here's how to store it, how long it keeps, how to freeze it, and the green seasoning batch to make first.
It looks like a Scotch bonnet, smells like a Scotch bonnet, and carries virtually no heat at all. Meet the pepper at the heart of every Trinidadian pot — and the reason this farm exists.