Are you serious!!! Are you really insinuating that because she does cook and likes to cook she HAS to have a Caribbean background? I don't know about her, but I'm offended for her. I know my family doesn't have Caribbean background and I learned to cook at a young age. I have a friend from the Caribbean who can't cook to save her life, so what does the Caribbean thing have to do with it? I'm tired of people with a Caribbean background putting down Black Americans...
Maybe its because my grandmother worked a lot and I was the only girl in the house, but I've always like to help out in the kitchen. But I have friends who had parents who came home every night and cooked for them, and they aren't the best cooks...
I can make plenty of things, more than can be listed here, some recent dishes include, tilapia in a bag, home made chicken and shrimp stir fry, chicken Parmesan and alfredo (home made sauce). A homemade bar-b-que sauce me and my friends refer to as "crack sauce". Of course standard "soul food" items my grandmother would be ashamed if I didn't know how to make, potato salad, macaroni salad, macaroni and cheese, black eyed peas and smoked turkey wings. I love to whip up an omelet for breakfast sometimes before work. I loved to cook, I recently received the G. Garvin cookbook as a gift and look forward to trying new recipes from his book and creating new ones of my own...
Well there are always exceptions to every rule...consider yourself lucky...![]()
Why aren't the ladies at you're job and exception? I meet plenty of people like me every day, I thought we were the norm and the ladies at your job to be the misfits?
Choices shape your life.
Im sitting here eating eggs and salmon cakes my wife made right now![]()
This thread will only turn into another woman bashing thread.
Then again it was from jump.![]()
My parents are from Haiti. I was taught to cook at 5. And I cook everything, from "hotdogs and hamburgers" to vegetable lasagna to my native dishes to soup and stews to pollo ala brasa. I even cook fish, and I hate eating fish.
personally i love to cook!
some females get offended/upset when guys ask them to cook for them
shit i get excited...as long as he is putting in on them im straight!
i also think its a southern thing tho...
I heard that...(creepy silence)......you know you have a beautiful asshole don't you?
Do you have a Caribbean background?
If not (and you are from a long line of Americans), what dishes can you cook besides hotdogs and hamburgers?
lemme say this too...alot of men want me to do women stuff (cook, clean nurture)...and these same men dont wanna be a man (provide, be a leader)...if men expect women to do both...somethings gotta give...so some of yall dont need to get mad that women arent cooking...start doing man shit...then maybe u can find a woman who will do women shit (this wasnt directed to anyone in particular...just some observations ive had)
im straight 100% american black woman and i get down with american food...im talking about
smothered chicken (or just plain fried)
mac and cheese
greens and cabbage
cornbread and cornbread dressing
canied yams
chicken fried steak
mashed potados
shrimp edtufee (sp)
dirty rice
...all homemade just to name a few
and i go fed on desserts too..
red velvet cake
cream cheese poundcake
7up cake
...all homemade just to name a few
all of this food is very fattening and unhealthy except for the greens and cabbage![]()
greens and cabbage isnt healthy when u put hamhock or bacon in it either...
thats how black people eat...expecially in the south
thats not how black people i know eat![]()
i dunno what to tell u
food like that is the core of black community...that food is tradional going back to slave times
like trina said, "im thick off that cornbread and the cabbage"
i know northern black people eat it...but its huge in the south...even white people eat it
The food that is the core of the Black community I know is:
steamed fish and fungi(cornmeal)
stew peas
ital stew
saltfish
kale(no meat or grease)
all types of soups; fish, pea, pumpkin, etc some make flour dumplings but many make plantain or cassava dumplings instead
ground food(yam, dasheen, cassava, edo, etc)
curry goat
bake or stew chicken
rice and peas
breadfruit
calalloo
the food you described is the reason why most americans are fat and diseased![]()
most of that stuff either ive never ate before...or never heard of
sounds moreso like some african/island shit
look at any movie/tv show where a whole bunch fo black people are eating (like soul food)...more than likely u are gonna see the stuff i mentioned
but hey what do i know...ive only been born and raised here
but your right...thats why alot of black people have highblood pressure and diabetes cause of our diet...not to mention our diet is the reason why alot of us are overweight
... atcually one of the few chics on the job who does cook for herself for lack of a better term would probably be considered a "hood rat"...
Its all peace Ari. Theres no war here just a discussion. Health is wealth and ital is vital my brotherPeace my dear ladies...peace. Southern cooking and Island cooking each have their merits and drawbacks.
most of that stuff either ive never ate before...or never heard of
sounds moreso like some african/island shit
look at any movie/tv show where a whole bunch fo black people are eating (like soul food)...more than likely u are gonna see the stuff i mentioned
but hey what do i know...ive only been born and raised here
but your right...thats why alot of black people have highblood pressure and diabetes cause of our diet...not to mention our diet is the reason why alot of us are overweight
Damn I can cook your kind of food too if I want to but in a healthy way. I make bangin collard greens with no meat whatsoever in them. Why candy sweet potatoes when they so sweet already? Grill, bake or steam instead of fry. Use whole grain flour instead of white. Brown rice instead of white.
Yeah it is some island "shit"Our diet is much more closely connected to our original African diet. The Black american diet comes from the garbage the white man let you eat mixed with part of the diseased european way of eating. All those crackas in the south obese and en route to heart attacks and strokes too.
Are you aware that most Black people are lactose intolerant and don't even know it? STOP EATING THE FOOD THE WHITE MAN FORCED ON YOU!!!!
Actually I cook everything from fried chicken to shrimp stir fry to sauteed salmon with a teryaki sauce glaze to mac n cheese to baked ziti to stuffed chicken to garlic mashed potatoes from scratch. I cook it all. And most of my friends cook as well.
So like I said, this black american woman cooks. If you're ever in the area I'll fix you a plate!
Its not always what you eat but how much of it you eat. The portion sizes are out of control.
Then you have a lot in common. Grab her.
Only if you grab my dick.
I heard that...(creepy silence)......you know you have a beautiful asshole don't you?
Why aren't the ladies at you're job and exception? I meet plenty of people like me every day, I thought we were the norm and the ladies at your job to be the misfits?