PHOTO OF THE DAY: Breadfruit almost ready for roasting
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63 Comments
To The truth,
That breadfruit is good for cooking but not for roasting. Those which qualify are the ones with a smoother skin which do not look like someone with goose bumps. That breadfruit is pretty clean, I mean it’s still on the tree. Just like bananas which will develop scars due to contact with leaves, branches or even pests and diseases so will the breadfruit unless you place it in protective plastic at the onset of fruiting as in the case of bananas for exportation. Nic pic but the pehpeh blem. Love you dominica. Abdu.. remember Frank… ,Me and the rest when you hold down your pehpeh woti this week in Da.
To The truth,
That breadfruit is good for cooking but not for roasting. Those which qualify are the ones with a smoother skin which do not look like someone with goose bumps. That breadfruit is pretty clean, I mean it’s still on the tree. Just like bananas which will develop scars due to contact with leaves, branches or even pests and diseases so will the breadfruit unless you place it in protective plastic at the onset of fruiting as in the case of bananas for exportation. Nic pic but the pehpeh blem. Love you dominica. Abdu.. remember Frank… ,Me and the rest when you hold down your pehpeh woti this week in Da.
By the way, the leaf also works great against high blood pressure. You prepare it as you’d tea, let it cool and drink.
Breadfruit juice is very good too! Also, a hot piece of well-matured breadfruit adorned with “red butter” was it! complemented with a cup of sqwash (lime juice with brown sugar).
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The breadfruit looks matured for cooking and eating. It looks delicious to me as is. It makes me feel hungry. I see nothing wrong with it. Would love to get one like that. In fact, it has encouraged me to purchase one this weekend.
We could also make soup with it. A simple way is also to peel it, cut it into a few pieces, sprinkle olive or canola oil (whichever oil of your preference) on them with a little bit of salt and place them on a greased pan. If you have parchment paper you could line the bottom of the pan before placing the breadfruit in it. Place the pan in the oven and bake/roast it. This keeps the nutrients intact. You could also wrap them in aluminum foil and bake/roast them. My recipe.
Certain vegetables could be baked/roasted in this manner.
Yampey and roast saltfish I could eat tah every day. I remember the first year I went home my mom made me some tomtom and fresh fish I guess I put too much pepper in that thing, I had the runs for days.
no one spoke of a ‘ton-ton yampeh…..boy dat does go down with any salt fish when you eat dat with your hand eh…..DOMINIQUE DOO TOU BON MA
Compare to when I was growing up this breadfruit looks very meg. People would not pick it. It reminds me of the breadfruit that they sell in the states.
This is to B-DAWG , your comment was poetic, the message was well taken, you never miss your water till the well runs dry, I am in California, I will be going home soon for good, but not untill my return to brooklyn for labour day.
dat blem coshony there will give people thrush “trush”
Better than mac and cheese and the canned food soaking in nitrate and all other forms of preservatives with names that cannot be pronounced.
Give me my breadfruit any day.
@ just looking
Pessimist!
yum,yum,yum. That breadfruit be ready just in time for me when we get home.
a old pehpeh blay allu want people mouth 2 water on YACK!!!!!11
That breadfruit blem ! That have 3 more weeks befor it can be eating !
Roast breadfruit & saltfish is the best.
Roast breadfruit and saltfish any time.
No boy I think smoke herring is better.
Some people, just love breadfruit good and ready for roasting, with some avocado pear/ smoke-herring.
My favorite breakfast in Haiti…!
Anyone remember eating breadfruit with BUTT? The big black fish. Cuz back the back n neck would only b cooked on Sundays. Or hot breadfruit from the pot with the orange mello kream the real orange one melting on the hot breadfruit. Oh by the way the overnight breadfruit roasted next morning on the coal pot with cocoa tea n a teaspoon of pure codliver oil right after that lol
@ JahAngel
This is tasty and nutritious.
U all make me smile a good bit, all those who have abandoned all the good food and go to other countries. Now u all have watering mouths, making bad dreams, and telling stories, making the nostalgics sadder. Well, well, I’ll punish u all more. I am going to cut all the mango trees, the zaboca,breadfruit,guava,zicac, pomme-canelle, coconut(help me one wicked person)if I forgot another fruit.I am going to overturn all the rivers like and old truck or dry them out.There will be no more veos, crayfish, cerics. And what else again? No more tania(shoo) No more dasheen and yams (babaloeuy).I am going to put on photos of spiders, roaches,(and what is the patois name of the green snake,the scary one u see regularly when going to the bush)?I will also put the photo of a big tetechien (the big snake) to scare u all.And if the nostalgics don’t agree with me I am going to make u all cry the best by pinching u all on the cheeks.In my conclusion my dear D/cans people, I hope u all haven’t taken me seriously.Eh !!! I love u Dominica, will u marry me???
@ B-dawg
This would be their punishment. While they are sleeping in the night pull their legs.
They do not appreciate good food. They should never make such comments about food. The breadfruit looks inviting, to cook and eat.
breadfruit n pear season..am all up in that !!!
boy that pic and some of the comments just evoke some childrish memories;
many many moons ago, my mother send me up to la plaine for summer vacation,i was engulf in YAMPEAH;TOTON with sancoach,tuch yampeah with cacoa tea in the morning, yampeah with everything; that was the most memorable vacation i can remember, though i did not want to go at frist.Hail to the YAMPEAH;i salute captain Blight who brought it down to the carribean
DNO, the cost of one of that fruit impoted from Grenada in new york is $8us dollars and that depends on the size, in Boston coming from Jamaica it starts from $9us. One of the advantages of an international airport we caribbean’s will have an opportunity to support what we produce in our respective countries
@New yorker, they sell where I live very expensive and not good at all. Come on Dominica, be what? Competitive ofcourse!!
@ New Yorker
West Indian produce is expensive also in Canada. I have not seen a huge breadfruit as this in Toronto. What I have seen at the grocery store is small. They are sold by the pound/kilo. I also bought a small one which was what was sold at a West Indian store for a few dollars. They have to be cooked as soon as possible otherwise they will go bad.
yuk!!!
you can roast it by the bay and eat it with fresh fish caught in the sea and also roasted. th en wash down with coconut water.hey i have not spent 1 cent for that meal!
i think alyou does put those picture there just to make us homesick .ok allyou win .
@flower—– this how most breadfruits look on a tree there is dirt in the air,the tree lets go its own waste n most bredfruits hav those black things on dem…wen u get them in the market or where ever dey are cleaned..the black spots on it is natural n nun wrong…IGNORANT stupesssss…
@FLOWER…whoever you are you had me laughing…lol.All jokes aside,but really I have seen cuter breadfruits lol
Man! No other isle to compare. I love DA, the culture, and all it has to offer. Going by the river and cook a nice broth and after you sweat, dive in that water to cool off. The luxuries of other countries cannot replace the natural connection we have towards nature.
That Yampe blem. Not ready for consumption.
it said almost ready (that means not ready yet)
understand?
this looks good
That is an ugly breadfruit, not looking good to eat
i LOVE breadfruit___my both grand parents are khlinago’s and i grew up eating these kinds of food and i can never ever put a 2piece KFC ove a local dish…………..never..me love me local food
As soon as I saw this photo I started smiling. Thanks to the individual who submitted it. I don’t know eh, but this is one of my favorite things on earth. Can’t wait to get home in a few weeks to get my roast breadfruit.
Afos I can’t stand all you sometimes. My friend does the same thing when she know she going down. Sending me text daily of how she going to eat veo and yampeh. Anyway enjoy the trip home and enjoy for everyone who cannot make it down this time of year.
DNO is there an envy icon..?
lol lol poor you guys
Thanks “hold up.” By the way, you had me laughing so much especially when I read the word “Afos” lol.
Alas all you making my mouth water wi
That’s what you call organic without the label attached to it!
Be careful about the starch (carbohydrates) my people. The high incidences of Diabetes in Dominica is no coincidence. Our local diet is heavily constituted on root vegetables, white rice and other foods high in starch.
In other words: consume in moderation.
stupes
My grandmother just turned 97 and she has no diabetes, no cholesterol and has feasted on yampeh, rice and beans and gel cochon (every Sunday) dasheen, green bananas and all the starchy foods that we know and love in DA. She is not obese, she is not in excellent health (age considering- vision and mobility) but she still feasts on her tonton and lentils from time to time.
I’ve been eating breadfruit from birth and no diabetes.
hold up: You and your grandmother alike need to count yourselves fortunate. I notice that my comments were not taken with the same sentiment with which they were written but I am merely attempting to warn of the dangers of excessive consumption of fatty foods. Castle Bruce, like many other communities in Dominica has been decimated by diabetes. This is no coincidence as our diets are high in starch. Because you are one of the fortunate ones, this does not mean that you should take this issue lightly. The bible warns that people perish for lack of knowledge. To know is to be forewarned. Carry on.
i agree with you Dominca has some many centurians and when u ask them what they eat breadfruit is right there at top.our bad eating comes from all these tin stuff we buy so old on those store shelves and frozen food seems to be our choice me like me pempe me fig me dasheen and everything we grow not what them chinese feeding us
Is the KFC, Pizza and other process food they eating that have dem obese and diabetic. Not drinking their lime squash and jelly water but drinking soda.
@ Anonymous
Drinking pop, bottled and tinned drinks could do it. They also contain a lot of sugar. My favorite is ginger ale or sprit when I do drink them. Sprit comes second. I have not drank ginger ale or sprit for some months.
Generally Dominicans eat more fish than meat. This is good. They should drink orange and grapefruit juice or eat them, eat fruits and leafy green vegetables and other veggies; beans and peas; not much rice.
They should drink ample water daily and at least a glass of milk daily with cereal – fibre.
I heard and also read that illnesses are generally due to inflammation of the body. They should do a Detox of the body, to cleanse it. How many people do that? Moderation in everything is the key. This should commence from childhood. This is considered habit-forming and building.
oh my goodness, oh how I love DA.
Yampeah and zabocar for long life. You can also eat it with cocoa tea in the morning for long lasting energy. In the afternoon ‘toton’ yampeah avec Sancoach Coco avec ‘lamo we’ . You will bite your fingers.Thanks God for Yampeah! You can prepare it in a million ways……
woooh roast breadfruit and codfish
Almost ready is joke!!! Give it a few more weeks. Let it matiteh and then you roasting that with some kayi or volan parfymeh, some onion well stew down and a cup of cacoa tea or a lime squash to wash that down.
@ Tri State Beauty- I told someone the other day lime squash and he goes I have never heard that before.
But that kayi and volan would go down good with that squash…yes jah..memories. Makes me want to take a trip home. Remembering the good old days when we use to just set out and go river or hang out at the beach, play cricket, rounders and catch veo…yes jah…those were the days..
You joking HOLD UP somebody doh know what is lime squash?
Memories for real! Life was so much simpler and enjoyable, and we were meg on top of all that. You eat to be energy filled and natural excercise, now everybody kondi tel moun.. OH BEAST!
@ hold-up
I love making squash too. This, too is healthy – citrus.
ATri State he bloody well know. As he un-hop AA he playing like he don’t know DA culture. Me self going to see where I can find a half matwitae yampeh this afternoon.
ummmmm
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