‘Guilty as charged, Your Honour.’

‘What is the charge, accused?’

‘Well, Your Honour, it was 4 weeks ago when I promised the defendants some recipes from a now-distant trip to Barbados’.

‘And why have you kept them waiting so long?’

‘Well, Your Honour, since then

1) The pain in my right, writing hand has come back aka RSI (see I work almost 8 hours a day on the computer at work + X hours at home!)

2) I have begun a period of ‘study’ for the next 6 months with assignments due every fortnight

3) I’ve decided to also grow my ‘dessert-making skills’ and have been trying and testing various recipes, which I will share soon

4) Plus  I’ve returned to TV watching. On this note, I ask the defendants to forgive me. Life may never return to normal but I promise to keep them updated and find out how they’ve been doing too.’

Turning to the defendants, the judge asks

‘Do you forgive the accused?

The defendants respond ‘Lets see what she has on offer first, then we’ll decide.’

So here begins this tale of three dishes, made in under an hour and arguably the best of Barbados food sampler I had, but I will start at the very beginning.

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