John's Jamaican Birthday Dinner

Ever since my Island Foodie expedition to Jamaica, I have wanted to make a Jamaican feast. There's no time like the dead of winter to bring on that tropical dreaming, so I finally made it in January 2015. We had a lot of fun.

We had:

• Rum Punch

• Pepperpot Soup

• Bammies

• Ackee and Saltfish

• Rice and Peas

• Escoveitched Fish

• Oxtail Stew

• Black Cake

All the recipes except for the Black Cake came from The Real Taste of Jamaica by Enid Donaldson.

The ingredients were acquired by Richmond and me on our special one-day Around the World in Worcester expedition.