Homemade, the Pink Way · Berbice, Guyana

PINKMADE

Welcome to my kitchen — where we eat the rainbow and think pink.

Simple, wholesome cooking with fresh ingredients from my garden and market — for my family, and now for yours.

🍍 The pineapple means welcome. Come in.
The PINKMADE kitchen — marble island, gold pot filler, and a pineapple welcome
The Island

Four blue stools, always.

In my New York studio apartment, I cooked for my father at my little kitchen island while he sat on the bar stools and talked with me. Those conversations seasoned everything I make.

That's why there are always four blue velvet stools at my island — for family, for friends, for conversation.

“Pull up a stool. There's a seat for you here.” — the house rule
From my kitchen

The recipes

We're not chefs over here — we're moms. Everything simple, wholesome, and from scratch, the way mama teaches: warm, real, step by step.

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Pizza From Scratch

Everything from scratch — dough, sauce, all of it

Friday night is pizza night, and in this house we don't call the delivery man — we call the flour. Every element made with these two hands.

Mama says: the dough decides when it's ready — not you. Let it rest.
Full recipe — coming in the cookbook
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Dhal

The pot that raised me

Golden, garlicky, poured over rice like a blessing. This is Guyana in a spoon — and yes, it's simpler than you think, once you respect it.

Mama says: don't fear the chunkay — hot oil and garlic are supposed to shout.
Full recipe — coming in the cookbook
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Roti

Soft & flaky, made proper

Clap it while it's hot and watch it flake into layers. Roti is patience you can eat — and the first thing my family checks the kitchen for.

Mama says: rush the roti and the roti will embarrass you.
Full recipe — coming in the cookbook

Recipe previews — mama's exact methods arrive with the cookbook. She's strict about them. That's the point.

The Video Diary

Watch me cook it

From my kitchen to your feed — my cooking diary, straight from TikTok, lands right here.

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What's on the stove

Coming right up
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My sweetness weakness

Coming right up
The Food Library

Real pots, real plates — my kitchen's photo album 📸

No stock photos in this house. Every plate below came off my own stove in Berbice — and the album grows as I cook.

Golden plated special
The golden plate ✨
Fried bakes in the pan
Bakes, puffing proud
Roti and curry
Roti & curry
Cook-up rice with shrimp
Cook-up with shrimp
Soup with dumplings
Soup & dumplings
Guyanese chowmein
Chowmein night
Homemade burgers
Burgers, homemade
Berries and cream
Every berry & cream
Dhal
The pot that raised me
Sorrel
Sorrel, ruby-deep
Layered tea
More tea, babe
Pizza from scratch begins
Friday night begins

See these dishes taught properly, in the cookbook →

More Tea, Babe ☕

A whole corner for tea

My love letter to every tea there is — hot and cold, always from scratch. This corner of PINKMADE is dedicated to my tea sanctuary, More Tea Babe.

Milk Tea

Hot

The classic, made proper — the way mama poured it.

Cocoa Tea

Hot

A Guyanese morning in a cup. Rich, spiced, from scratch.

Ginger Tea

Hot

For everything. Ask mama — she'll tell you it cures it.

Sorrel

Iced

Ruby red, cold, and beautiful — the celebration glass.

Lime Iced Tea

Iced

Limes straight from the yard, sweetened just enough.

Passion Iced Tea

Iced

Golden, floral, and gone before the ice melts.

The PINKMADE cookbook — a luxury marble kitchen with strawberries and chocolate
The Cookbook

PINKMADE — the book

We're not chefs over here. We're moms.

From-scratch family recipes with fresh ingredients from my garden and market — taught the way mama teaches: warm, real, step by step. With a whole chapter for tea, and one for my sweetness weakness: anything chocolate, and every berry there is.

Read the digital edition free right here — the print edition is coming to Amazon KDP.

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Every recipe in one beautiful file for your phone, tablet, or print at home — yours forever, mama's strict tips included.

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Live the rainbow. Eat the rainbow. Think pink.

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