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Anguilla
Mango Trio
Jerked chicken filets with
mango & corn salsa.
Ceviche of
prawns with mango & avocados, with country pepper.
Sweet potato
mango soup with tomato cardomann compote.
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Roast pork
butt in burnt cane and ginger glaze, pigeon pea and blue cheese
fritters, papaya chutney & crispy provisions.
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Sweet
cornmeal Johnny cakes with caramelized pineapple, chili pepper and
cashew brittle and West Indian butterscotch sauce with Anguillian
Pyrat rum.
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Aruba
Curry-Rubbed
Shrimp served with a salad of shrimp, Avocado, and Mango topped
with a yuca crisp accompanied by a relish of tomato, onion, and
pepper and watercress finished with red-pepper and watercress
finished with red pepper coulis, shrimp-saffron emulsion, and
balsamic drizzle
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Grilled pork
with Tamarind barbeque sauce served with fried empanada, stuffed
with pulled beef, cashews, olives, and bleu cheese accompanied
with stir fried chayote, pumpkin, zucchini and corn, finished with
aromatic jus, pica de pina, herb oil
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Sweet
potato-sour cream coconut tart with caramelized plantain, orange
and rum served with pineapple crumble and chocolate swipes
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Bahamas
Shrimp,
Plantain, Corn, and Blue Cheese Ravioli, served atop a sweet
potatoe flan, laced with shrimp broth, and citrus essence
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Trio of
Roast Beef trip tip marinated in angostura bitters and island
herbs, smoked pork & pumpkin sausage, and Caribbean curry chicken,
served with Pigeon pea-pineapple smash, rum glazed carrots and
jerk marinated grilled okra
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Guava
cheesecake, and Chocolate-spiced island cake filled with Banana
cream, served with homemade avocado-mint ice cream, papaya stew
and mango coulis
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Barbados
Pan Fried
Grouper and Pineapple Roulade
Served on a
corn and tomato salsa, cucumber pickle with a gruyere crisp
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Caribbean "spice rub"
porkloin
paired with a curry-infused
scallop, ginger scented marked vegetables, Oistens potatoes with a
Rum and Angostura bitter sauce
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Avocado and Mango Terrine
Black pepper ice cream in a
cinnamon nutmeg tulip basket, passion fruit and blue curacao
coulis
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Bonaire
Marinated
fresh Sea Scallop Carpaccio with chives, pika, lemon, juice and
garlic
Mixed
lettuce Greens with Angostura Dressing, funchi fried fres grouper
strips and yellow pepper coulis
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Certified
Angus Beef Roasted "Stoba" Bonaire style with capers, olives,
raisins, tomatoes, celery, red peppers, touch of orange zest.
Pork
Medallion crusted with herb gruyere cheese, wrapped in bacon
served with a sweet corn, papaya, scallion relish,
accompanied
by cinnamon Star anise Red Wine jus and Pumpkin pineapple "Pika"
cake
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Chocolate
bavarois with sponge cake topped with a white chocolate cilantro
jelly accompanied by a mousse of cocos, a tuille and cilantro
coulis
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British Virgin Islands
Marinated shrimp on sugar cane
with avocado salsa, shrimp mofongo, mango christohine slaw.
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Bush smoke pork medallion with,
tea poached chicken sausage tropical fruit, rum and Angostura
glaze with coconut milk
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Mango and chocolate cornflower
mousse with pineapple and papaya coulis
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Cayman Islands
Angostura-rum-coconut glazed grouper and pan-seared giant sea
scallop on green mango slaw with baby field greens and citrus
vinaigrette
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Herb-roasted
jerk pork loin wrapped in caul fat with tamarind-jaggery glazed
tri-tip skewer, warm pumpkin-corn salsa, gruyere roasted yuka and
flash-sauteed zucchini
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Red Bean
Parfait rested on pumpkin seed brittle with warm chocolate cake
topped with caramelized bananas, accompanied by a coconut-ginger
quenelle with curry cream, mint chutney and papaya coulis
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Curaçao
"Ajaca" Fish
marinated with Prominente pika and onions served with pinenuts,
pickles, olives in a jacket of yellow corn flour, traditionnally
served in banana leaf, accompanied with tropical pineapple, mango,
corn and chayote salsa and an avocado-fennel pesto
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"Stoba" of
Beef with green papaya and lady finger banana wrapped in green
cabbage leaf. Roasted pork loin flavored with Angostura bitters
stuffed with yellow squash. Okra filled with gruyere, served with
smoky red pepper sabayon and crispy coco-cilantro spätzli.
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"Caribbean"
Fluffy Composition of Rice, coconut milk, raisins and Ponche Crema
with sweet carrot black pepper sauce and a garnish of small
pancakes
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Puerto Rico
Seafood Mousse with a Mango and
Chayote Slaw in a Coconut Corn Espuma
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Mushroom and Gruyere Beef
Crepinette and Marinated Grilled Pork Duo, Caribbean Ratatouille
in a Spiced Rum Reduction
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Chocolate Flourless Cake with
Cinnamon and walnut Brittle Ice Cream, Mango & Pineapple Compote
with a Guava Coulis
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Saint Lucia
Carnival of Shrimps
Ceviche
grapefruit with blach pepper cracker
Caribbean
spiced sugar cane skewer on a cucumber salad.
Frozen
Tomato flavoured mousse.
Served with
a papaya salsa, spiced Angostura syrup and a herb coulis.
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Pumpkin seed
and nut crusted pork butt with a coffee rum gravy, tamarind glazed
chicken roulade with spicy beef stuffing and a carrot ginger sauce
Served with
Blue Cheese and boniato pancake, marked vegetables and carrot
crisp
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Sweet pepper
orange mousse with its caramel, avocado-coconut pudding, spicy
honey glazed pineapple, chili-vanilla tuille, and a star anise and
redberry sauce
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Sint Maarten/Saint Martin
Cononut curried grouper cake
With a roasted corn "panna
cotta", whipped avocado, sea scallop and tropical fruit ceviche,
Caramelized ginger aioli and balsamic Angostura syrup
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Chili Sugar Cane Marinated Pork
Loin
Served with flat-iron steak,
Cardamom Hollandaise, "Arroz Verde" and black beans, Chimichurri
and tamarind infused pork jus
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Pineapple Dome filled with
Chocolate Mousse
Caramelized mango and cashew
nougatine, based on coconut dacquoise, topped with ginger and
coconut tuile, Brunoise of pineapple and mango with ginger infused
pineapple caramel sauce
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Trinidad & Tobago
A Caribbean Surf and Surf Broth
Mini Fish Fillet wading in a
spicey ginger and lemon grass broth, accented by a scallop stuffed
dumpling, diced pumpkin, carrots and a green cabbage demi buoy.
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Our Caribbean Arrival “We
Reach!”
Indian sliced pork loin
accompanied by a tamgeera red wine sauce. Traditional creole iol
downe carried in a plantain basket roasted spaghetti squash topped
with a parandero salsa, highlighted with a shadon beni oil
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“Ah Home! An Ango mousse club
sandwich”
Ango mousse sandwiched between
crisp layers of phyllo scattered with coconut and roasted cashew,
topped with spiced rum infused fruits, garnished with an anthurium
sugar lily and avocado cream (condiments “ Paw-Paw Ketchup
drizzled with chocolate).
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United States Virgin Islands
St. Thomian Shrimp Trio
Angostura
marinated and grilled shrimp, roasted corn salsa, Spiced Shrimp
Johnny cake, Avocado Shrimp Ceviche, Angostura bitters aioli
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Braised Tri Tip Roulade
Filled with
a gingered pineapple pork sausage
Natural pan
reduction with bleu cheese
Local root
potato cake, spaghetti and okra
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Caribbean Coconut Jumbi
Spiced
edible coconut shell
filled with
a coconut mousse
mango
compote and guava coulis
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