One of Peter Tosh's Favorite Recipes:

Ital Stew-Broad Beans or Red Peas Style ("Lima")

Serves 4

1- 1/2 pint B/Beans (freshly picked)

2- 1 pint coconut juice

3- 2 medium carrots

4- 1/2 LB pumpkin

5- 1 medium cho cho

6- 1/2 doz. okras

7- 1 medium sweet pepper

Seasoning-Escellion, Thyme, Onion Blackpepper, Pimento Seeds, Hot Pepper, Tomatoes, "Spinners"-(small dumplings)

Grate coconut & blend it with about 1 quart of water; then put about a quart  in the pot on the fire.

Leave the pot open. Wait until the coconut juice starts to make a custard

Prepare beans, cut the carrots and pumpkin into small pieces. Put them in the pot. Cover the pot. Let this boil until the beans, carrots are about par-cooked. Crush a few pieces of the pumpkin in the coconut juice (which now becomes a yellow liquid).

Prepare the cho cho, the seasoning (thyme, eskellion, okras, sweet pepper, onions and pimento seed). Add hot pepper tp taste, 1 pk black pepper, 4 cherry tomatoes. Make about 2 doz 'spinners."

Add all of this to the pot and cover. Stir the pot and cover. Let it cook for about 20-30 minutes until it becomes into a stew. Stir and have it served with yam (yellow or white), boiled green bananas and a little brown rice. 

Cornmeal Porridge

Ingredients:

6 oz cornmeal

1 1/2 pints of milk (Goat milk will do)

1 stick of cinnamon

1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg

vanilla extract

raw sugar cane

Mix the cornmeal and milk thoroughly in a saucepan, place over medium log wood fire and bring to a boil, stir it up much until it is smooth and thick. Move to a part of the fire that has less heat and add in the spices and flavoring of vanilla. Sweeten to taste with sugar cane. Continue to cook for about 10 minutes, remove cinnamon and serve. Share with others.

Milky B

2 bananas

Ice

Goats Milk

Coconut Milk

Blend ingredients together and drink for stamina.

Fruit Salad Ital Style

Ingredients:

1 medium jackfruit

4 ripe mangos

2 bananas

1 melon (any size will do)

3 oranges

2 plantain

Cut up each fruit in its respective method. Mix in a large wooden bowl using one or two spoons made from teak wood or bamboo. Serve fresh, feeds many.