Fresh Lime Pie Tweetcipe

It’s been over a year since I’ve visited a former, and perhaps my favorite home. I lived on the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands for almost 10 years. I worked as a massage therapist when I arrived there, but during lean times I found some work at a restaurant called The Fish Trap, making cheesecake and fresh lime pie.

Tortola has been on my mind a lot lately, so I’m going to share a simple pie recipe from my Caribbean era. The recipe comes from The Sugar Mill Hotel Cookbook. The Sugar Mill is the nicest boutique hotel on Tortola, and lunching at the hotel’s Island Restaurant, which sits right on the beach on the North side, was always a treat, even for us residents.

FRESH LIME PIE

1 lightly baked store-bought pie shell
3 eggs, separated
1 small can sweetened condensed milk
½ cup freshly squeezed lime juice
Lime zest from 1 lime
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
¼ cup of sugar

Preheat oven at 350. Pour condensed milk into a medium bowl. Beat egg yolks in a small bowl with a hand mixer until light yellow and thick. Stir into condensed milk. Add lime juice and rind. Pour into prepared crust. In a clean bowl with clean beaters beat egg whites with cream of tartar until thick and then very slowly add sugar. Beat until shiny peaks form. Spread over lime filling making swirls and peaks. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 min.

Fun Food Trivia

Anyone who has ever stepped foot into a kitchen knows that it can be an adventure. The meals we create have the opportunity to be magnificent works of art, but they can also be adventures into disaster.

The different ingredients that encompass a meal can often be more unique than we realize, and with every recipe we can learn more and more. For all those kitchen enthusiasts out there, not only can you delight your guest’s taste buds, but you can provoke their thoughts and your own with interesting and amusing food trivia.

Honey

This is a sweet staple for many households, but did you know that it takes about two million flower visits by honey bees to produce a single pound of honey?

Peanut Butter

Not only is peanut butter another very common kitchen item, but a great complement to the aforementioned honey. Ready your milk glasses, because it only takes one acre of peanuts to produce 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

Rice

To produce one ton of rice you need 2,000 to 5,000 tons of water. The average American eats a little more than 24 pounds of rice per person annually, where in France the average is about 10 pounds. However, in Asia, the average consumption per person is an astonishing 300 pounds annually..

Superfoods for superior health

The next time you feel a cold coming on, hesitate a moment when reaching for that orange. Green bell peppers have twice as much vitamin C as oranges, and red and yellow bell peppers have four times as much.

Quinoa is a whole grain in the form of a seed, and a delicious addition to any meal. One cup of quinoa has more calcium and protein than a quart of milk – great news to all who are lactose intolerant. Even better, ounce for ounce, quinoa has as much protein as meat, contains all of the essential amino acids, and has high amounts of iron and calcium. All in all, it comes closer than any other food in supplying all of the nutrients needed for life.

For those who indulge in carrots on a regular basis, you are sure to recall the rumor that eating too many will turn your skin orange. But orange was not their original color of the carrot – they were red, black, yellow, white, and purple. It was not until the 17^th century that the Dutch invented the orange carrot. It is curious to consider those who might have turned purple in the 16^th century after a binge in the garden.

I hope these fun food trivia facts give you food for thought.

Until next time, eat well.