Keva’s Food & Rum Cake Co.

Guava pudding is a different way of making a traditional Bahamian Guava Duff. “Duff” is an English slang term for Pudding. This lightly sweet dessert with a delicious rum sauce with guava. 😋 was passed onto me by my favourite Bahamian Chef, CathyAnn Thompson, 🤍who was an ambassador for traditional Bahamian cooking!🇧🇸🇧🇸🌴🌴

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Just as the Rum Cake is famously known as a staple within Bahamian cuisine, the same goes for the Nassau Royale Liqueur Bottle (Royal Bahamian Policeman). A home decor must look for any true Bahamian and culture enthusiast if you ask me!🌴🌴

Warm- up the holiday season with delicious Bahamian Rum Cakes 🎄🎄

“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sweet goodness🎄of delicious Bahamian Rum Cakes🎄🎄

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🦃

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
-Rumi

These irresponsible tasty, crunchy curry pumpkin seeds with spices and slight sweetness are super easy to make. It's an ideal snack with pre-dinner cocktails.

I couldn't resist the temptation of baking this pumpkin cake with candy nuts crunch topping served with orange sauce! Thanksgiving Day calls for a pumpkin dessert.🍂Yummy 😋

Curry Pumpkin Seeds;

2 cups pumpkin seeds
2 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 tsp brown sugar or honey

1- Heat a small frying pan heavy-duty, add pumpkin seeds, and dry-fry for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Add in the remaining ingredients frying and stirring until the pumpkin seeds start popping and expanding and making sure to keep the pumpkin seeds moving around in the pan. Lower heat; the pan will smoke a little—taste to adjust seasonings.

Cheers, my dears! Happy Friday! We wish you all a weekend filled with lots of giggles and bubbles! 🥂We are enjoying ours with tasty bite-size sausage rolls and spicy mustard sauce 😋

My oh my-😋 the delicious smells filled the air as I cooked up my vision of “Bahamian Okra and Rice” with mouth-watering Monk Fish topped with our Bahamian Pineapple Chutney and for calming down the spicy, 🔥a tasty Sweet Pepper with lime and honey sauce. Incredibly flavoursome comfort food created for our Supper Clubs! 🍲The aroma triggered memories like my mother’s kitchen! To order our delicious Hot Bahamian Chutney, Rum Cakes or to book a Supper Dinner for a group of six, email us at [email protected]

“A Taste Of Home”🌺🌺

Our kids spent much of their childhood living abroad in different countries. I still wanted them to enjoy the experience of my home cooking; they often would receive large packages of freshly baked goods and treats from home that wasn’t available where they lived. “A taste of home” keeps us connected to our children no matter how far away the roads may take them. However, for one daughter over 4000 miles away from home, her mother was able to get some of the familiarity of home delivered right to her door quickly and inexpensively.

As a company run by a full-time mother, we at Keva's Foods know how food can be such a comfort on blue days. Our company now delivers 'A Taste of Home Abroad', creating meals that provide a healthy mind, body and soul through food. For this daughter in London, her mother wanted to be there for her, even if she was in the Caribbean. We created a Care Package specifically catered to cure homesickness that included:

- Gluten-free spicy Bake Mac and cheese
- Saint Kitts Red Bean Stew with Pumpkin
- Keva's Hot Flash Chicken ( A different kind of Jerk Sauce)with Bahamian Tomatoes Sauce
- Coconut Cardamom White Rice
- Honey Orange Cinnamon Fried Plantains
- Keva's Hot Bahamian Pineapple Chutney
- Keva's Caribbean Gluten-Free Banana Cake

A familiar yummy smell of a particular meal is a comforting connection to home from across the miles. Contact us at [email protected].,place an order for delivery within Central London areas🇬🇧

“Everything is amazing and so tasty! Thank you so much it’s incredible “💕

LONDON GIVEAWAY ALERT: Want to win a free Keva's Rum Cake? Follow these steps. 1. Like this post 2. Tag 2 friends in the comment section 3. Repost this on your story. The first 4 accounts to follow these steps will win.🏆🏆 WHAT YOU WILL WIN:
1ST PLACE- Large Rum Cake valued at £50. 2nd, 3rd, 4th- Small Rum Cake. Good luck. This giveaway is only available to people residing in the Central London area

Breakfast At Billingsgates Fish Market!🐟🐟

An Excellent place to visit to find the freshest fishes, which would pair up beautifully with our new “Hot Bahamian Pineapple Chutney” 🍍🍍It was fabulous with our early morning breakfast of poached eggs and grilled fish!🐟🐟🐟
Order a jar of Hot Bahamian Chutney @kevasfoodco.com

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“ Food is our common ground,
a universal experience”-James Beard

This Black History month I celebrated with a taste of history by exploring various cuisine from the Bahamas, Jamaica, Martinique, and Zimbabwe. By putting together a few dishes from each country, I discovered that they all have a distinctive taste of bold flavors and a great deal of similarities in their ingredients, just different techniques for preparation. As well as the African influence, there are the British, French, Asian, and Italian, just to name a few.

Bahamian Fish with Tomato steamed sauce is made similar to Italian and French tomato sauces, Jamaican sweet potato pudding is also very similar to the Bahamian Potato Bread pudding, and Zimbabwe Chicken Stew is a combination of the Bahamian Streamed Chicken and our Pea n Rice.
The tradition of these cultures has influenced the forming of the international Caribbean cuisine as it is now known today!

Sunday Supper in the Bahamas and Martinique!

A Bahamian Style Grilled Fish with Steamed Spicy Tomato Sauce 🇧🇸🇧🇸
And Black-Eye Pea and Roasted Pumpkin Salad!🇫🇷🇫🇷 with beautiful Yellow African Protea Flowers sitting in Coconut!🥥

A delicious meal for a stormy Sunday evening in London🎡
Island-hopping and discovering an absorbing mix of European and African influence of ingredients in both dishes with tantalising flavours!

Shrimp 🍤 and Mango 🥭 Salad with Orange and Lime Sauce🍊

A salad that brightens up the table on a winter night! It's one of my favourites, created as a spin-off of the Bahamian “Conch Salad” with fresh jumbo shrimp instead. The mixture of spicy with the sweetness from the mangoes, combine to make beautifully smooth and intense flavors that linger. A dish that is rich in vitamin C and will keep the winter sniffles away.

It pairs up great with this Island Coconut Coconut Bread. This bread is made with lots of toasted coconuts, cumin and other island spices.

We will be happy to share the recipe for any of these dishes. Get in touch with us by emailing us at [email protected]

I am so happy to have three of my recipes including the our island favorite bread “Bahamian Johnny Cakes”featured in this Commonwealth Cookbook which has been created to raise funds to support the secondary education of girls in the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Pacific.

It is available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3tKTDWe

So happy to be back in the Bahamas with familiar faces. Yesterday, my cousin and I debuted my Kevas Cakes at her shop . I am so happy with the outcome and feel so full of love. It’s always so important to come home to your roots 🇧🇸☀️


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🏝🌞My first Bahamian food supper club in London was a hit and I couldn’t have done it without a wonderful team of support and the patrons that joined. This night is close to my heart because of the donations that are going to Save the Children that will provide meals to disadvantaged children. Thank you for all your support and I look forward to seeing new friendly faces at dinner.☀☀
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Bahamian Coconut Tart 🥥🥥🥥

This is an all-time favourite Bahamian dessert and reminds me of home as you can find it in most bakeries in Nassau. Like most Bahamian dishes, it packs in tropical flavours!
Coconut has been a longtime and common ingredient used in Caribbean cooking, from savoury to sweet dishes. The coconut adds a good amount of sweetness, which means you only need a small amount of sugar when making this tart. Delicious and perfect for the summertime🌞🌞
If you are interested in culinary history & Caribbean cooking, there are plenty of online resources where you can learn about the history of this and other Bahamian classics — a great one to read up on is from TruBahamianFoodTours.com — they have a wonderful article on the Coconut Tart origins!

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White Chocolate Raspberry & Lime Cheesecake!

Anytime I have friends over for dinner, I love nothing more than baking something special. This cheesecake is a real favourite of mine (and it’s a real crowd-pleaser for all!) Mouthwatering fresh raspberries, mascarpone cheese, cream cheese zesty limes, white chocolate, and a fabulous dark chocolate cookie base. This dessert is truly a taste of the tropics — a great Sunday treat for family & friends to share!

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Spicy Monkfish with Tomato & Pepper Sauce, Served with Homemade Coconut Rice🌬🌨

“It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.” — Winnie the Pooh

On a cold and rainy day in London, all you want is something nice and warm to eat! This dish is comforting, lemony & light — simply perfect, healthy comfort food! Here’s to hoping June will be a bit sunnier... 🤣💕☀️

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Salmon & Coriander Dressing!!🥗🥗

My dear friend is a brilliant nutritionist and is sharing this lovely salmon recipe with us all today.

Fish provides Omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin D which keep our important to keep our brains & bodies healthy! Paula notes how many major fish consuming countries, like Japan, have much lower numbers of seasonal affected disorder. This is partly because many nutrients found in fish can prevent illnesses, such as depression.

INGREDIENTS
FOR THE SAUCE:
2 large handfuls of coriander, leaves and stems, chopped
6 spring onions finely chopped
1 garlic clove, smashed
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
Sea salt and black pepper

FOR THE SALMON:
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tbsp olive oil
Sea salt and black pepper
One piece of skin-on salmon fillet for 4
1 lemon, cut into wedges, for serving

WHAT TO DO

Make the sauce: Combine coriander, spring onion, garlic, vinegar and olive oil in a medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper, and set aside.
Roast the salmon: Heat oven to 180C. Combine cumin, paprika and olive oil in a small bowl, and season with salt and pepper.
Season salmon with salt and pepper and place in a baking dish or on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle salmon with spiced olive oil mixture, transfer to the oven, and roast until fish is opaque and just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes.

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Cinnamon Oatmeal with Papaya & Ginger Compote 🥣🥣

At 54 years old, I always start my day with a 7-8 mile run — I find it starts my day off on a positive note! Eating healthily & exercising daily, not only relieves stress, it happens to be one of my favourite things to do!

This delicious & well-balanced breakfast is cooked with oat milk, warm spices and is topped off with fresh papaya, cooked with honey, ginger, orange juice and zest. Finished with a sprinkling of mixed nuts & seeds. A nutrient-dense breakfast, no better way to kick off the day! 💫🏃🏾‍♀️


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As they always say: it really is better in the Bahamas! 🇧🇸🌺
Our Classic Bahamian Rum Cakes pictured taking a break on the beach!
Our Bahamian-Style Rum Cakes & Banana Breads are a taste of the Islands — order our range avaliable online at kevasfoodco.net! 💫🌺

Tropical Spicy Shrimp with Coconut, Fennel & Lime Risotto 🌶🌶🌶🌶

A warm, spicy, colourful dish — this recipe combines jumbo shrimp, avocado, mango, lime and fresh jalapeño peppers, creating a delicious & tropical-inspired flavour. Served with a creamy Coconut Risotto; simmered in coconut and fish stock base, featuring sweet fennel, garlic and lime zest. All topped off with a grating of Parmesan cheese. The perfect dish to kick of the Summer season! 🥥🥥🥥


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