![]() The internet was full of doom over my chances of finding any this side of the Atlantic but I managed to hunt down a jar in my local market. Bajan seasoning is an island staple, packed with herbs like thyme and marjoram, as well as spring onions, garlic and chillies to varying degrees of heat. So I took a bit of what I fancied from here and there and came up with the following recipe. I tried to find a definitive recipe on the internet but as with any much-loved regional delicacy, passions were running high about how to cook it – with butter, no butter with eggs, no eggs with veg, no veg. It’s sold as a side dish in restaurants and roadside stalls, accompanying everything from Sunday lunch to fried flying fish and, of course, every mother has her own secret recipe. Turns out that Bajan Macaroni Pie is quite the thing in Barbados. So when my usually discerning friend Nat came back from a holiday in Barbados raving about the local macaroni cheese dish, I had to investigate further. ![]() ![]() onions, tomatoes, herbs, chorizo…you get the picture). I like pasta and I like cheese but Macaroni Cheese, well, it’s lacking something (e.g. Bland, boring and not requiring teeth (yes, yes, I can hear an army of Mac fans rising up against me in ire). Mac ‘n’ Cheese restaurants, Mac ‘n’ Cheese vans, Mac ‘n’ Cheese pop-up stalls…you can’t move for slipping on some of the gloopy stuff.Īs you may have gathered, I don’t get it. Macaroni Cheese – or Mac ‘n’ Cheese as it’s now known – seems to be everywhere these days.
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