This is the first pic in my Jamaican food series "To Fry or Not to Fry". My sister and some of my close friends are chefs..so this is as much for them as it is for me. I was told explicitly I must photograph food. So here goes...
When I first moved into my house I was having all my meals cooked for me. This is a perfect example of Jamaica food...rice, meat, and a little bit of vegetable..often cabbage. Actually usually it's rice and peas aka rice and black beans, rather than white rice. The rice in the rice and peas is typically cooked with coconut milk and takes on a brownish tinge because of the beans. Rice is served with everything...and I mean everything. Almost every authentic Jamaican restaurant I've been to serves the exact same thing: Chicken (fried, baked, Jerk) Pork (usually stewed) Beef (usually stewed) and maybe Oxtail or curried goat...all with rice and peas of course. There are variations, but those are the staples you get on every menu. I'm going to take a swing at it and say that the meat here in this pic is pork. Through my experience, pork is typically served with a thick trim of fat (like a good inch or more). Jamaicans love it. Me...not so much. In the future I should probably write about the dish closer to the time I actually ate it seeing as many dishes look the same.
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