Jamaican Gungo Peas Soup Recipe

Jamaican Gungo Peas Soup Recipe

Gungo Peas Soup is a Jamaican favorite. It is a rich Jamaican soup that features beef, pig tails, gungo peas, yellow yam and more. Often served as a  “Saturday soup”. Ingredients: 1½  lb stew beef bone (with meat on it) or cubed stew beef 1 lb salted pig tail 2 cups Gungo Peas green (dried […]

Jamaican Chicken Neck Soup

Jamaican Chicken Neck Soup

Jamaicans waste no part of the chicken. The chicken neck is used by many Jamaicans for soup. It is a rich soup that features chicken necks, pumpkins, carrots, yellow yam, Irish potatoes, cho cho and more. Often served as a  “Saturday soup”. INGREDIENTS : 3 qt. water 2 lb. chicken necks 1/2 lb. carrots, cubed […]

Alone, Scared and Betrayed – Memoirs Of An Illegal Alien Part 79

I was lonely. Sue was back in Jamaica. In the last few months before she left we had gotten very close. I think part of it was that we knew it would be a while before we would see each other again. The first week she left she called and we spoke for an hour […]