Last year I was lucky enough to have a neighbor share with me some food she made. She mentioned it was west indian food and something about Roti. The main dish was made with Mango and some kind of meat (lamb, goat, or beef…yeah I can’t tell the difference). But the Roti she was talking about, it wasn’t actually  just Roti, I later found it was Dahl Puri. It has some powered up yellow pea or something in it and looks like very thin layers of Roti. I LOVED it with the sauce she had from the main dish.

Ever since then, I was in search of the recipe. She did tell me I can watch her make it the next time, but I haven’t had that chance. I googled all over and found a place in Plano called “A Tast of the Island”. They had roti and Dahl Puri. I quickly made a trip there and bought both, but they didn’t have anything with Mangoes in it. So I ended up getting Chicken Curry and another day I got Chicken Stew. I was just wanting it mostly for the sauce. Since the Chicken Curry is more spicy, I now always get the Chicken Stew. I even tried looking for the recipe on google with keywords “trinidad chicken stew”…but the one I found and tried to make did not tast anything like theirs.

I just went there again this week…and last week. This time, I got 8 Dahl Puri, the Chicken Stew, and I wanted to tried Ox Tail Stew. I know..Ox Tail right? But OMG, it was delicious!!! I think it’s the first time I’ve ever tried Ox Tail. I think I’ve had Pig Tail in soup (asian stuff) but the Ox Tail was so tender and tastey. MMM….I still have a couple of Dahl Puris left, but I will surely get more again once I’m done (you can refrigerate it or even freeze it and just put it in the microwave for about 35 seconds or so). I’m so hook and thought I should shared this with you all! I wouldn’t have tried Caribbean food probably if it wasn’t for my neighbor, so I’m so thankful for her!!

It is owned by a couple and they are very nice. I love going to places that are indie owned and small. They usually have the best homey food. Here is their website and info:

http://tasteoftheislands.net/

Address:  909 W. Spring Creek Plano, Texas 75023
Telephone:  972 - 517 - 5900

– Providing individuals with the opportunity to manage and organize their busy lives; R2 Business Ventures announced today that it has launched the website http://www.groupusup.com.

The website www.GroupUsUp.com. is a social networking community site focused on allowing individuals to form groups for anything or join groups such as clubs, family, friends, neighbors, neighborhoods, HOA’s, organizations, teams, co-workers, alumni, non-profit, jobs & career, business, social, charities, nightlife, sports and more.

Managing Partner Rick Erling adds; “Our early market gap analysis uncovered a need for an easy to use community social networking site that is focused on groups, rather than individuals. We wanted a way for people to organize their lives by having a place to socialize with groups that they have a common interest with.”

With the Group Us Up! concept of “groups for anything”, there is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize your members. You decide if your own profile and the groups you create are public or private and you also decide who to invite. Groups can have multiple discussion forums, photo albums, file attachments and your members can also post blogs, organize events and keep track of who’s attending those events.

Mr. Erling adds; “We have neighborhood and HOA groups that are staying connected and sharing information about their groups and organizing social events. Intramural sports teams and booster clubs are also using it to organize and provide updates on when practices are, where the games take place and plan fundraising events. Businesses are getting onboard for internal corporate communications and reaching out to new customers and partners. There is no limit to the benefits of having an outlet to organize right from your home or anywhere, anytime you have web connection.”

As Mr. Erling and his team grow Group Us Up! they will be depending on their members to provide input on functionality to make Group Us Up! as user friendly as their members desire.

Membership is FREE and signing up is quick and easy at http://www.groupusup.com/.

Anyone who puts up a Dallas business venture hopes the business will become flourishing and successful. We always look for ways to be on top, especially when it comes to the internet.

It would be a great benefit to make use of Dallas internet marketing and advertising. just about any business can be done online. In connection with this, search engine optimization could help you a great deal to become successful in your business. You can send information or marketing reports about different items for sale to all your family and friends and you may request them to forward these messages to their families and friends as well. You just have to remember to include information on how a potential buyer could contact you.

Dallas search engine optimization is an excellent way to enhance and develop your marketing strategies; thus resulting to better visibility on the search engine outcomes. With the search engine optimization, there is a consequent increased number of visitors to your website hence, creating a much bigger opportunity for you to find many potential clients.

If you really want to have a booming Dallas business, you should start optimizing your website now. However, to create a lot of traffic to your website entails some time and effort. You should first understand what Dallas search engine optimization is all about.

To optimize your website, the contents of the website must be valuable information. With informative and interesting contents, your visitors will tend to go back to you whenever they need more information regarding the business. They will begin to see and be interested with your products and services.

For those of you who know about Pippi Longstocking - it is coming to the Eisemann Center this Sunday February 15th, 2009. 

I grew up watching Pippi with my cousin and remember we would set up a bunch of chairs and pretend we were at sea like Pippi. Just recently I mentioned it again to my cousin since I wanted my son to see it. I haven’t seen it on TV again, but coincidently my cousin had told me they bought set of DVD released (the original and not the remake). I always enjoy watching it, even now. It’s great for imagination and just really takes you away to another world.

Here are some more info and you can check out the Eisemann site for more info:

“The Eisemann Center’s Family Theatre Series will present“PIPPI LONGSTOCKING” from the book of same title written by Astrid Lindgren, Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm in the Hill Performance Hall. American Family Theater’s production of Astrid Lindgren’s popular children’s story brings this most outrageous redhead to life in an enjoyable performance for the whole family.”