Easy Jamaican stew peas recipe with duppy-foot dumplings

Ingredients:
Two 16 oz cans of red kidney beans
4 cups of water
1/2 medium sized green pepper diced
1/2 medium sized onion diced
1/3 teaspoon garlic powder
1/3 teaspoon ground black pepper
12 whole pimento beans or 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
6 to 8 cloves
1 tablespoon coconut or other vegetable oil
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt

dumplings:
1/4 cup of all-purpose flour
1/8 cup of water

Process:
Rinse kidney beans and place in a pot (avoid kidney beans that are cooked with sugar), add water and all the ingredients, except those for the dumplings. Bring to a rapid boil, reduce heat to medium to high and cook for half an hour. Reduce heat to low and cok for an additional 15 to 25 minutes.

dumplings:
After bringing ingredients to a boil,combine the flour with 1/8 cup of water in a bowl, mix and knead until the mixture is fairly solid. Tear off small pieces, place between your two palms -- Move your palms back and forth until the piece of dough is thin and about the width of your palm. Place the "duppy-foot" dumpling into the boiling mixture. Repeat until dough is finished.

Jamaican Hot Chocolate Drink (Chocolate Tea)

Ingredients: chocolate, nutmeg, cinnamon, water, sweetened condensed milk (or freshly extracted coconut milk and sugar)

Recipe:
1 cup grated chocolate
1 tablespoons grated nutmeg
1 teaspoons powdered cinnamon or a stick of cinnamon bark
6 cups water
Combine grated chocolate, grated nutmeg, and powdered cinnamon in a pot. Add 6 cups of cold water. Bring to a boil. reduce heat. Let simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Sweeten with sweetened condensed milk. Optional dash of salt.

Yields 6 cups of drink
*Note: unsweetened chocolate makes a great drink. If no sugar or milk is added to it, it can last several days. It may look unseeming when it cools and the natural oils in it coagulate. However, simply it bring to a boil and it will be smoother each time.

Dried cocoa beans and chocolate balls -- formed by roasting cocoa beans, grinding them, and shaping them between the palms of the hand before they cool.

grated chocolate from chocolate balls