Shopping for Organic Healthy Ingredients ONLY
I am always on the hunt for ingredients to boost up my immune system
Seasonal and Local ingredients helps!
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Indian supermarket in Queens
So underestimated, it's full of vitamin C and great for the stool
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Turmeric
The immune booster of all times, it looks like ginger, does not smell at all, if you break it in too its orange, it has lots of vitamins and minerals. In this Indian supermarket in Queens I buy veggies we like to call exotic, some I really don't even know the name of but check this out, it this n...
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Sopropo or bitter melon
If prepared well it's yummy. Some stuff it with ground beef. However you got to know how to prepare these or I find them way to bitter. Same thing with the bitter lemons
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Velvet beans
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Food emporium
Be selective, try to eat organic, check from what country your ingredients come and try to eat seasonal and local
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Fernandes in Suriname
They have chips listen to the names, potato chips, yucca chips, in different flavors, cherry donut is something that made them very famous, they have cakes with lots of flavor because that they know in suriname, they also have a large assortment of bread.
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More Fernandes
Fresh jelly donuts, warm snacks with pom, Shoarma, duck curry and fish make no mistake all the snacks are very tasty and spicy
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Fernandes in Suriname
A bakery I grew up with in Suriname, they sponsored my cooking show, but they have a larger assortment nowadays with curry duck sandwiches totally awesome
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Booze in Suriname
Also in Suriname they love their liquor, I am looking for a nice red wine, great selection
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Medicine from plants in Suriname
All these supplements, that's what I like to call them because I do not believe you should use these as a medication. Most of them are immune system boosters, great anti oxidants, however if you are sick go to a doctor this is not the medication you need they are merely supplements
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In suriname at the drug store
In front of the pharmacy in Suriname they have all kind of fresh spices even marihuana
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Goelong goelong
Indonesian crepes stuffed with sweet marinated coconut
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In suriname on the side of the street
Dark cloud heading to the city I am heading to Ali's drug store
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On the market in Suriname
This stand has, Magistan, Rambutan, Dragon fruit, pineapple , mango, they all come from people back yard and they sell it here on the market. So Lovely
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Crepes stuffed with coconut
Orange and yellow crepes
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Crepes with coconut in Suriname
In my youth I grew up with the sweets, the pink one is a crepe with marinated coconut in the middle, and the one in the banana leave is called donkoeng is made of yucca, raisins, I believe some banana, cinnamon omg its so good
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Rice cookie
One becomes very creative with rice, this is a dried rice cookie and the croquet is very dutch crispy outside with ragout inside
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More on the central market in Suriname
My cousin is explaining what all these sweet are, but they are basically crepes with coconut, sweet are made of lots of sugar, crispy sweet rice, so creative how these women make sweet out of scratch and make a living, total respect!
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In suriname on the market
They have so many different guava's in Suriname, big ones and sometime they are red inside
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Dried herring
So you have dried herring in Suriname and pickled herring all so delish