Support Your Locals and Have an Awesome Dinner 🐟 #DashOutSunday

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This Sunday's meal was all about supporting local small business and hustles.

Just about half of my freezer is filled with locally caught shrimp and fish. I bought all of them 2 months ago at a nearby family fishery shop and stuffed the freezer full in anticipation of a second wave and or a full lockdown, alongside eventual paper cash shortages at the ATM withdrawal machines which was becoming a problem back then. So now we have an abundance of different types of cut pieces and filets to pick from.

We also recently discovered a local small farm family some meters away. They just put up a small stand in front of their house and sell all kinds of home grown vegetable. This comes in handy, as we don't have to travel far, and they're cheaper than standard market prices. Also, even though I didn't grow something myself, I can still support the practice of homegrown food this way. So we got a few eggplants from them and went on our way.

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Dash Out!

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Another local thing we got where white sweet potatoes.

Hooray, no rice again for me. :)

We got those from @tanjakolader her mom who got them from a local as well. Those where just cooked in boiling water with a little bit of salt and set aside for later.

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I decided to go the Asian route with the eggplant. Sliced them in diagonal slices and started of by browning them on both sides in a pan. After that I heated up some oil, browned garlic in that and tossed in the eggplants along with minced ginger. Topped it of with some sesame oil, soy sauce and oyster sauce and that was ready to go.

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Last but not least it was time for the fish. Locally we call it 'wit-witie' which translate to whitefish. Co-chef @tanjakolader was uncertain of what ingredients to use, because I'm usually the one that does the marinades. But I told her to surprise me, and the result was delicious! She used garlic, a of that locally made pepper powder, black pepper, salt and lemon juice from those lemons we got from our friend last week.

Time to fry them in the same pan we used to brown the eggplant. After that the feast was complete. Well, that and Tanja cooking her beloved rice.

In times when the economy sucks, we are encouraged to plant vegetables at home and do some mini scale farming. But even if that's not completely possible, the message to take out of this is to support your locals whenever possible. If they deliver quality, service and consistency, they are worth your time and money.

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This was part of the Dash Out Sunday culture in the ReggaeJAHM Community. Special shoutout to @dmilliz for starting the trend in the community.

Check out the details here and be sure to shared your culinary Sunday with us.

Thank you for stopping by. 🙃

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