Today's lunch...

I love bitter melon and sla'fish.  bitter melon stir-fried with beef, chicken breast or both

I love biter melon in all ways.  terrific food

I does boil that salt fish till you can't taste any salt

then cook in small amount of olive oil until it is slightly brown

then add to almost cooked karaila

we do too !!

I does even slip it up and put in pepper sauce.....once it is 'pickled'....it is to die for.

I saw this Gyall "squeeze" out the chopped  Karila twice in warm water..

B4 cooking !

too much salt does.  salt to tas'e doh trouble me

SO if yuh boil out de Salt from Salt Fish

and "squeeze" our de Bitter from de Melon :

wuh yuh end up widd ??    :-\

I know , but its all Mind over Matter ! :-[

no man.....cooking up the sardine is the best.

wid plenty onion and garlic

lil oil
fry the onion
then add the garlic
some tamotoes
let all simmer for a couple of minutes
then add the sardine
simmer another couple of minutes

put on bread
or eat with roti
or wid dhall and rice

again....Guyanese style

I never see sardines raw and uncooked in a tin.

I know they flash-cook them and seal them up.  every time I put them in a hot pan they stick.  so to protect against anything in the tin we used to heat up oil and pour it over the sardines to avoid the pan process.

but since I came to Canada that was too much for me.  I used to eat with crackers and toast. or make submarines with lettuce and tomatoes on delicious foot long white bread...after making  a paste with hot peppers or pepper sauce.

I understand now how you can cook it if you let it simmer under low heat with enuff liquid.  but sardines are soft, real soft and does not need heat..cant take too much heat.

anyway the way I absolutely love it is like I have listed

if I remember accurately my mother used to do it like that...but with tomatoes too.  she used to cook all of the ingredients down add the sardines to simmer on low heat..or just take the pot off the heat and leave it covered

I love chicken soup!  but my chicken soup is full of celery, noodles, english potatoes and dumplings. onions, garlic and a bit of tomato