Big Haiti Send-Off!

I’m ready for the food.

Susannah Gray hosted a Big Haiti Send-Off party for me on Sunday, and served all sorts of Haitian Creole foods. Red beans and rice, sweet potato bread, crab cakes (more because I like them), coconut candy, chips with mango salsa, and my favourite — andouille sausage corn dogs with Creole mustard. And you know what goes well with an incredible spicy sausage eaten like a hot dog?

Haitian Cremasse.

Oh, baby.

It’s the new Egg Nog.

Sweetened condensed milk, coconut milk, coconut rum, and more coconut rum… it’s de-damned-licious. And it’s the perfect complement to spicy food. Hell, it’s the perfect complement to ice.

Susannah made a donation box out of popsicle sticks for the occasion, and the donations received put us well over the $6000 mark! I decorated with paper houses – one for every donor to the cause. Yodel decorated with all of Murphy’s toys. It was a steady stream of friends of Haiti, the generous people who made my trip possible. I even “sold” a couple 14.5 Reason T-shirts!

Thanks to everyone who came or sent good wishes — the moral support is really important to me as the build gets closer — and very special thanks to the world’s best hostess, for getting me ready for Haitian food (and hopefully, drinks!).