Hurricane food

A tornado touched down in these parts last week. It got me to make jerk chicken for the first time in my life. Why? Well the Brit narrowly escaped the wrath of Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and at the time he was living in Cayman, eating a fair amount of jerk chicken. So you can see how I put the two together.

I've never been into jerk because it's full of allspice, a characteristic that does nothing to endear it to me. Allspice comes into my life once a year, as a 1/2 tsp measure in a family-sized batch of large fruitcakes. But what the hell, right? You only live once, and you never know when the next drastic weather event could change things.


Success! Something about mixing the allspice all up with chilies, lime juice, garlic, etc etc etc seems to make it palatable. Even tasty.