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| Cornmeal with Okra (Cou-Cou) Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence Show: Food 911 Episode: Caribbean Flavors Overall User Rating:  |
No Way Hosea!!
11/28/2005 at 08:11pm
User: Andrea from Forestville, MD User Rating:
I am a proud Barbadian and I almost lost my religion when I read this recipe. Look here! The real thing is Cou-Cou and Flying Fish,and where is your cou-cou stick? If your arms weren't hurting when you finish stirring this cou-cou, you mek something else. Anonymous and Kay from Houston bumped their heads. Find some bajan friends and let them teach how to make Cou-Cou and don't forget de Flying Fish
Shelly from Maryland
11/28/2005 at 09:51am
User: Michelle from germantown, MD User Rating:
I am Bajan born and bred, Cou cou is my absolute favorite dish. Wendi, Cindy & Tyler neither one of you have obviously never tasted Cou Cou in your lives. Cou Cou is a very mellow, simple dish. There is no onion, nutmeg, olive oil, thyme, chicken stock, black pepper, nor sauteed vegetables in this dish. ANYWHERE... And in the oven?? or Fried??? whoever heard of baked or fried Cou Cou. You should name this crazy dish something else, it's definitely NOT COU COU. Bajans are very proud people and we are very proud of our Cou Cou and Flying Fish dish.
Rosie from Brooklyn
11/25/2005 at 03:16pm
User: Rosemary from Brooklyn, NY User Rating:
Cou Cou and Flying fish is the national dish of the Island of Barbados. What you prepared on your show yesterday is as far from cou cou as the earth is from the moon. Chicken stock? Corn? Onions? Thyme? Are you kidding me? Cou Cou is a wonderful tasty dish, e-mail me and I will send you the recipe and the method of preparation for free. Please do not have the whole world thinking that what you prepared is Cou Cou, because it is not!
It stands alone with no star rating
11/25/2005 at 01:48pm
User: Joan from Brooklyn, NY User Rating:
I am from Barbados and I have never had Cou-Cou made this way. On Thanksgiving Day several family members and myself were watching your show and, we all gasped at this receipe. It stands alone. It should not be linked to the Island of Barbados and it is not a side dish it is the main course. This makes me question other Island recipes. Next time, go into a native Bajans home and see how it's done. You don't even need to go back to Barbados for the true recipe find your closest Bajan cook and you'll see how it's done. Bajans are everywhere. I hope to see a correction.
Wrong way
10/05/2006 at 03:38pm
User: Kevin & Ann from Owings Mills, MD User Rating:
Havng been born and raised in Barbados, I have NO idea where Mr. Florence got his recipe for cou-cou..but it looks NOTHING like the cou-cou i've eaten all my life. Whole hunks of Okras? I enjoy Food911 normally, but The Bajan Chicken and cou-cou was so far off base! Im VERY VERY VERY dissappointed!
Good recipe
10/05/2006 at 10:03am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This was a good recipe, and the results tasted good. I'm not quite sure, but the few people who lectured everyone about the true way to do things all sound like the same person. I would recommend they take their poor grammar and head back to the Caribbean where they can eat the 'real thing' in their filthy hovels.
Not Barbadian
08/02/2007 at 01:00pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I was quite distraught to watch this 'recipe' on Tyler's show. I am 100% Babradian and have never seen or heard anything like this in Barbadian cooking. Coucou is our national dish and this is an insult to our nation! I will be very careful of recipes i get from food network in future as they claim to be authentic but may not even remotely be the correct dish from that country!
Good Caribbean Cooking
08/01/2007 at 01:33pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I just saw the re-run of the episode on bajan coucou, I sat proudly waiting to see my national dish displayed for the whole world to see, what I saw left me speechless and dumbfounded as to why the program was allowed to continue. A check with our local food guru and internationally recognized chef Mr. Peter Edey, should have been undertaken before the show was allowed to be televised. I found all the recipies to be only "bajan" in name and an insult to our rich bajan food heritage, I shudder to think what you would do to our famous "Black Belly Lamb" which is sought after worldwide. In the future contact Mr. Edey or better yet have him take some time off from his shows "Dueling chefs" and "Caribbean Cuisine" to really show you some Bajan cooking.
Not at All
07/27/2005 at 03:57pm
User: Erika from BKLYN, NY User Rating:
I am from the beautiful island of Barbados and we do not I repeat do not make cou-cou that way.We do not put thyme,corn or nutmeg no where in this dish.
What Were They Thinking??
06/07/2005 at 01:13pm
User: Sharon from Pearland, TX User Rating:
I LOVE okra and was looking for a new recipe. I tried this one last night and it was unappetising! After the cornmeal cools, it has the consistancy of cold oatmeal; sticky, heavy and just plain blah! While the corn, onion and okra gave off a wonderful aroma, it was quickly ruined when the vegtables drowned in the cornmeal quicksand. Would have been better if the veggies were folded into cornBREAD mix.
Bajan Here, Too
04/30/2007 at 09:51pm
User: Amber from West Hollywood, CA User Rating:
First, I have to say that I feel Tyler tried to make the humble Bajan cou-cou more fancified than necessary. But we all know that these t.v. chefs need to create dishes with pizzaz and nuff gooshment, so don't knock the man too hard. We Bajans know the deal, and if corrections aren't made, then to France with them all. Honestly, though it may not be the traditional cou-cou as we know it, it sounds like it could be a good "mock cou-cou", and I will try it out. Second, in response to the so-and-so that posted this comment: "Good recipe 10/05/2006 at 10:03am User: Anonymous User Rating: [5 stars] This was a good recipe, and the results tasted good. I'm not quite sure, but the few people who lectured everyone about the true way to do things all sound like the same person. I would recommend they take their poor grammar and head back to the Caribbean where they can eat the 'real thing' in their filthy hovels." This person obviously has never been to the Caribbean, and has never known anyone from the region. If so, they wouldn't have such a poor misconception of our beautiful part of the Earth. I would recommend that this person stays put, and NEVER visits the Caribbean. Shoot, I wouldn't want them in Bim! Such awesome beauty and the warm hospitality of our people shouldn't be wasted on the likes of them. Not to mention de rum! Shame! Now g'long an' neva come back, hear?!
A national dish destroyed
04/16/2007 at 10:07pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Cou-cou is the national dish of Barbados. The recipe from your show is not cou-cou but simply what it states, your version of corn meal and okras. I am a Bajan (Barbadian)and will not bash your recipe because I have not tried it, but to call this Cou-cou is the destruction of a proud country's national dish. Would you do that to America? I think not. Please find an authentic Bajan to relate the true essance of cou-cou.
Carribean meets Southern
03/30/2006 at 03:56am
User: Anonymous User Rating:
This is a totally delicious dish! But - I made changes for the South. I'm not a big Carribean fan because of the sweet aspect. BUT - this was so southern! I added a bit of cheese and left out a lot of the butter. The flavors came through! Thanks for a change!
Onions
03/13/2005 at 07:29pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
Tyler didn't say how much onion to add to the skillet, but on the show it looked like one large onion chopped.
Yummy, but I have a question
03/08/2005 at 08:21pm
User: KAY from Houston, TX User Rating:
This was delicious. I have 1 question: the recipe says to cook the onion until it begins to soften, but there are no onions listed in the ingredients. I am a new cook and I like everything measured out just right so this made me nervous. However, I chopped up about 3/4 cup onion and used it in the recipe anyway.
done incorrectly
02/21/2006 at 03:49pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I'm from Barbados, and when I heard that Tyler was going to make Cou Cou, I was a bit scared for him....Tyler sorry but Cou Cou is not made that way. There is no chicken broth, corn, onions in Cou Cou...The okras are cut up and boil first....Sorry can't give you the full recipe now.....and the chicken was also done wrong....I'm so sorry.
Bajan coucou
01/20/2008 at 12:51pm
User: Anonymous User Rating:
I was born in Barbados and grew up there and this is far different from the recipe we use. I guess this is your interpretation of it. By the way corn, thyme, nutmeg, chicken stock and black pepper are none of the ingredients we use. Nice try though.