DashOutSunday-Jamaican Dinner and Family Dining on a Sunday
Dinner Time on a Sunday
Carrot juice sweetened with condensed milk,flavored with nutmeg and vanilla
Hi ReggaeJahmmers. It’s been a while since I made a DashOut post. This Sunday, the family was home and I felt like cooking up some Jamaican-style food. Huzzy dealt with lunch so I could take my time to prepare dinner. It was fun and worth all the time spent in preparation.
The Menu
The menu was fairly simple but still a bit more than what we would usually have for dinner on a Sunday. We prepared rice and peas (cooked with coconut milk), mashed potatoes with cheese, a tossed vegetable salad, brown stewed chicken with barbecue sauce and carrot juice sweetened with condensed milk and flavored with vanilla and nutmeg.
Carrot Juice (made the traditional way)
We were a bit excited about the carrot juice because we hadn’t had it like that for years and growing up in Jamaica, somehow that was the typical beverage for Sunday dinners. Sometime carrot juice was sweetened with sugar and flavored with lime juice. Whichever way it was done, carrot juice was the order of the day. Lol! Yes, there were times when we had other kinds of fruit juices. We sometimes had soursop (which I really didn’t like), cherry, passion fruit, pineapple and even combinations of carrot and fruits. My mom was, I should say, is a drink specialist and food specialist in general. She has a good sense of what fruits and foods go well together and in what proportions. Carrot juice though somehow cements what we remember as a typical Sunday drink.
We weren’t sure if our kids would have liked it. It turned out that one did and the other didn’t. Either way, they learned a bit more of what their parents grew up on. Lol!
Mashed Potato with Cheese
Preparation stages of brown stewed chicken with barbecue sauce and carrots.
Preparation stages of the vegetable salad
Rice and Peas(usually has more of a reddish color from the red kidney beans)
Brown stewed chicken with barbecue sauce. Somehow I made it a bit too salty so I added diced boiled potatoes to balance the flavor and taste.
Looking back, we really had a carrot-ful day. We had carrot in the chicken, in the vegetable salad and for the beverage. Understandably, we are now out of stock. Lol!
After dinner we played some card games and a game of jenga. It was a lovely Sunday evening.
What’s a typical or traditional Sunday dinner like for you?
Thank you for reading my post. Have a great week.🎶😃
Oh my gosh! That carrot juice is my all time favourite
First time I drank it in Harlem Manhattan 🔥🔥🔥
Yours @mammasitta
😃Oh my! I'm happy you know it. It brought back so many memories of my childhood. I just picked up some more carrots from the supermarket. I hope to make it again real soon.
My mom would sometimes do a variation of it by adding peanuts and supligen (an energy drink). That was more like a punch.
Just looking at the drink gives me a good vibe. Drinking it takes it to another level. I'm so excited that you know it. 😃
Mouth watering and I'm seeing this for the second time. Where are @dmilliz and @missaj?
Thanks. You know I picked up more carrots today? Lol😂😆
Carrot 🥕 juice! I couldn’t tell the last time I had that. It was a Sunday special in my house too. Along with other fruit juices. I loved the soursop juice, creamy and nice! Man, Xmas a come, me haffi think bout mi xmas Sunday dinner from now, I’m nuh wah nuh misou soup 😂!
Dinner look man, nice family vines ti playing games. ( without the video games ) 😂
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I couldn’t tell the last time I had it before Sunday. Lol!!
I don’t know why I never liked soursop. I would try it now if I had it but the fruit rather than the juice. I know it’s healthy but…nah!
😂😂Weh Yu seh, no miso soup inna Chrismus. 😂😂This funny bad.
Couldn’t tell when last I had manish water. Would love to have some of that. Mi wudda gi di miso a rest in Chrismus to, with all due respect.
Thanks re the dinner.
Yeah man, sometimes we have to go back to cards and board games.
Nuff rispec.
With due respect indeed 😂! Sushi can guh keep him company too.
My youngest always find the card dem and destroy dem. Haffi guh wait a year a so till him grow up a little.
😂😂Sushi is king here. You have to ask if it would mind taking a break.
“Your majesty, ahm… would you mind taking a break and let us give curry goat a day in the kingdom?”
How about a vacay with miso? (with all due respect)
Yes man, I understand di card thing. I remember taping up a few when the boys were younger. Not to mention being unable to find some. When we were playing matching games, Yu know how much match wi couldn’t find! 😂😆😅
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At my parent's we had soto ayam almost every Sunday and after some time my mother switched it up with meals that take a bit more time to prepare.
That stewed chicken is looking juicy and tender and I've heard so much about rice and peas from the Caribbean, which makes me more curious about the taste. Oh and I actually like soursop, not just the juice, but also the fruit itself 😅.
Haven't had soursop in years. Sundays were great dinner, family, church says in Jamaica.
Yes, if no other time, the family sat together and had good conversations over dinner. That was a great start to the week. Seriously though, cooking Sunday dinner was like a project. As a family we'd have to decide who's doing what. I was often on salads and juices, my sister would do the rice and peas but would also help to make the marinade from the night before. Dad would break the coconuts for the rice and peas. Mom cooked the poultry or meat. I think my brother did the dishes(I must call him and ask him what he did. Somehow it seems vague 😂)
I think we can fairly say Jamaicans are patient on Sundays if no other time. Sunday dinners take a loooonng time. Church wasn't for a short time either.😂😂😂We had to prepare a part of the dinner before church and finish up when we got back from church.
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Well damn... Prepare a part before church and do the rest after. There are indeed some churches here that have sermons for hours, but thank God the one we went as a family doesn't do that.
We would usually also buy one meal at the church (every Sunday another sister prepares a dish to sell as a means to raise money for the church) to keep us good and then my mother could take her time preparing our dinner.
Oh, and I think some families in USA also make a big deal out of Sunday dinner. There's a movie about it. Can't remember the title though.
I’d love to watch that movie. Yes, Sunday dinner was a big thing and church was held for long. It’s lovely when meals are provided. 😃
Found the title: Soulfood.
I remembered that Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long and Vanessa Williams starred in the movie.
Oh yes!! I must had watched it.
@tanjakolader That Soto ayam soup is really good. So happy you and @rarej gave me the recipe. The weather is changing here. It's getting much cooler. Soon I'll start making some soups to keep the family warm. Saturday was the soup day for us in Jamaica. Thanks re the chicken. I think you’d love the rice and peas. I feel like anything with coconut milk is good. 😂😂
Really? You like soursop? When I go back to Jamaica, I hope to try it to see if my taste for it has changed. I’d just have it because I don’t have access to it now. I can see my self frowning a bit. 😂😂
Oh and I forgot, there's even an ice cream vendor who sells soursop flavored ice cream, which is divine.
Really? I’ll take your word for it. Lol! 😃
Hahaha to each their own.
lol!
Mmmm yummy! I used to buy carrots weekly, but even the vendors said that they are now prized like diamonds. LOL! Not too happy with this inflation. For now, I switch to cabbages. Sunday dinners are really simple for us. It's just me and my daughter, so we tend to not cook much on the weekends. Have a fantastic week! :)
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😃Thank you. Inflation is getting us left, right and center. The prices of many things are changing. Recently I picked up a big cabbage at Costco. One cabbage can be used in several dishes so it's a good pick.
It’s good that you don’t have to do too much cooking on the weekend. My boys are eating more and more these days so I’m planning on giving them more cooking lessons so that they can eventually prepare some of the meals.
😂😆😂 I had to make this post because my present Sunday dinners are simpler and are often “just what we have in the fridge and cupboards” or what we can cook up quickly. Haha! It took me down memory lane as to how “Sunday Dinners” were when I was a kid...nostalgic 🥰
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I really like the versatility of the carrot, I would like to make that juice, and also try a food cooked with coconut milk, it really made me hungry. Thank you for showing your tasty food.
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