Saturday, January 24, 2015

Real Bahamian Chicken Souse

Today we had our first classic Cold Front come through this season. The wind clocked all the way around. It started this morning from the SE to S to SW were the strongest winds were from, then finally W and NW. The change from SW to NW was very dramatic. We had some dark clouds come over around 4:30pm with a distinct line of white clouds just behind them. The wind picked up, had some rain shower and BAM wind switched to W and NW and dropped down to less than 15kts. Most of the wind today was around 20 or less with a few higher gusts. Not too bad really. Tomorrow is forecast to have light winds during the day then strong tomorrow night as a reinforcing cold front comes through. I guess we will be "stuck" here again Monday so might as well make the most of it and play JACKS Bingo Monday night.

Around noon I got a hankering for some Chicken Souse. There were some youth football games planned in the park and food vendors would be there -- their moms. So I wandered over there to check it out. Sure enough along with soda drinks and sweet rolls and hamburgers and cheese burgers they had a BIG pot of chicken Souse. I ordered a bowl. Not what I expected. As the lady was laddeling it out I saw whole chicken wings, thighs, and drumsticks deposited in my bowl along with the broth and veggies. WOW I mean whole wings with the skin still on. Karen couldn't watch me eat it but it was good and the meat just fell off the bones. I even got some limes with real Bird Peppers skewered to them. They were good. Not hot like jalepeno but very spicy.

They also included a big chunk of Johnny Cake -- a very dense kind of white bread. All washed down with real Bahamian Sands beer

Ummmm Good.

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