TERESE'S HOME COOKING When your holiday calls for delicious home-cooked Garifuna food, you can arrange to eat with me at my home. Call me or ask your hotel to call to make arrangements. If you don't like to eat gibnut, armadillo or iguana, I can make a fish, chicken, conch or vegetarian dish for you. All of our food is fresh and natural, taken from the bush, the sea or our farm.
Your hostess and cook is Terese Castillo.

Yes, the best gibnut in Belize. Visit Terese when in Hopkins, or on your way South.
Cheers, Dan

What in heck is a gibnut? I'd love to try her possum on a half shell and lizard.

Or maybe I should ask what is a gib?

Not short for gibbon, is it?

Thanks, I feel better now. Was picturing monkey testicles. Even I won't go there.

Looks like a mighty fearsome beast. I was thinkin rat, yall hunt rats to extinction? With all that fish and lobster?

Years ago when the Queen visited, she was served gibnut. The British press that accompanied her tried to create a scandal by ranting that "The bloody Belizeans have fed our queen a rat!" Every since that time the gibnut has been known as "the Royal Rat"
Properly prepared, the gibnut or paca is delicious!
They don't seem that rare or hard to find. Often offered on sale at the Belize City open market.
There is an effort in Guatemala to teach villagers to raise free-range pacas in the village as a food and income source.

uuuummmmm - tastes like chicken! :p

Thanks for the education, Jesse. Good story.

probably taste like rat, lawcucui. I'd like to try it, and the iguana and the armidillo. Wonder if she delivers?

actually, gibnut meat is like beef.

Very nice bar-b-que.

Try the bamboo chicken, looks like lizard, but tastes like...

I tried Gibnut while staying at Maruba Spa and it was quite good I must admit. I am always "game" to try anything once

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Okay. FINALLY someone has managed to make ME - the gal whose son call's her "Indiana Mom" for her adventurous nature - feel old and stodgy. I have always been up for new experiences but I can't even IMAGINE eating something that looks like Walt Disney's Chip N Dale!

On the other hand, iguana sort of piques my interest. And Terese looks like a fun person to dine with! But I will pass on the gibnut. Coconut, si; gibnut, no.

Sirena

Your loss. Gibnut, paca, royal rat, is excellent!

But I bet you have eaten "Bambi" (venison)

Squirrel anyone?

At grandmas house fried squirrel was Monday lunch, Bambi roast once a month, possum periodically, takes a lot of time skimming all the fat off. Coon, when ever possible. But that was life in the rural South. Fond memories. Oh ya, Thumper was a Sunday or festival meal in Germany as a kid. I still enjoy the WILD Life. Munching to a different drummer I guess. Jungle chicken aint bad either. But on Caye Caulker it's Lobster, conch, IN SEASON, and great rice'n'beans.
Cheers, Dan

"But save the manatee for me"
Dennis Wolfe