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Papaya-SlimCado cashew salad

Papaya and avocados always make great salads, but add cashews and it's a great meatless dinner. This recipe has approximately 10.53 grams of protein per...

Dancing sweet potato salsa

Top sweet potatoes with a light and cheery starfruit salsa. Also great topping other veggies. And of course, chips and this salsa make a great...

Seafood medley topped with Caribbean papaya salsa

"Seafood medley" (calamari, mussels, octopus, shrimp) was the name on the frozen seafood package I used, add some papaya to it and YUM!...

Caribbean beef stew cooked slow

This isn't your mother's beef stew unless of course, she hails from the Caribbean. And although my mother was born in Georgia, she loved this...

Red guava, black beans

In a rush? This is the dish I pull out of thin air when unexpected dinner guests have arrived. Sometimes I think people show up...

Roasted calabaza

Calabaza's sweet taste makes it worth the effort to bake some fries. Also calabaza has only half the starch of most starchy veggies (e.g.,...

Torta de calabaza

A hearty supper entrée. I like to think of it as lasagna Latino-style. Calabaza replaces the tomatoes to make it delicious....

Sopa de calabaza

This is what calabaza is known for throughout the Caribbean and South and Central America, a creamy delicious soup. Ask a friend from one of...

Caribbean fruit salad with brown sugar vinaigrette

Toss papaya, guava and dragonfruit together and it's hard to go wrong. The brown sugar vinaigrette makes it totally sublime....

Tropical spring rolls with spicy peanut dressing

Something about dipping your entrée in sauce makes it fun. Tropicals just give this Asian dish an alternative taste....