Ditch The Mayo For This Egg Salad

Creamy with a hint of inherent sweetness, avocados make an excellent substitute for mayonnaise for certain salads. Coleslaw, tuna, potato, and egg salads are among my favorites to use this fruit as a cream-based dressing. Sometimes I add it 2 ways - as a dressing and as one of the main ingredients by cutting the avocados into chunks or slices.

This salad is certainly a different kind of green eggs.

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Barbados @ 50 - Ham Cutter

One of the must-have things during the Christmas holidays is a Ham Cutter. A cutter as I have explained in a previous post, is a sandwich made with the island's signature bread roll (salt bread), halved, with cheese, fried fish, fish cakes, ham, or chicken liver to make a signature cutter. A ham cutter is simply a freshly made salt bread, slices of ham, Bajan hot sauce, and lettuce. This sandwich is traditionally served with red Ju-C (a local soda).

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Barbados @ 50 - Chicken Livers

I was introduced to fried chicken livers when I came to live in Barbados. Sure I had eaten chicken livers before but never this way. Seasoned and fried tender, these goodies get sandwiched between a cut salt bread with lashings of hot pepper sauce; these are known as liver cutters. They are mostly available from rum shops as part of the morning offerings and Friday evening liming food. They are also available at weekend roadside vending.

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