Dance Class

Before there was Zumba, before there was hip-hip, there was classic dance in the Cayman Islands, courtesy of Mrs. Jackie Balls, known locally in Cayman is “Miss Jackie.” Miss Jackie’s School of Dance is the oldest dance school in the Cayman Islands, founded in 1973. The School offers dance classes such as Classical Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Tap, Street Funk and Hip Hop, and recreational classes as well as Ballroom, Belly Dancing, Zumba Dancing and Pilates.

Miss Jackie is committed to fostering a caring, friendly relaxed atmosphere however discipline is one of the School’s strongest assets. Through the medium of dance, they strive to inspire self-confidence, a spirit of cooperation among students, and an opportunity for growth in their personal lives.

It’s a wonderful environment to shape up, learn to dance, become more graceful, lose weight, or just have fun.

For further information, please contact Petique at www.petique.ky or 345-949-7296.

This update comes to us courtesy of Cayman Active. For a full calendar of fitness events in the Cayman Islands, visit http://www.caymanactive.com/ . Be sure to sign up for Cayman Active’s monthly newsletter to stay on top of sports, health and fitness and health in the Cayman Islands

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Gourmet Pepper Jelly

There’s one thing you can always find in my pantry: Gourmet Cayman Pepper Jelly. This delicious jelly is a blend of sweet, hot, and tangy flavors and if you pick up a jar, you’ll never want to be without it in your kitchen again!  It’s made by one special Cayman Islands lady, Carol Hay, who on weekends, manages to produce about 36 tasty batches a week of her magical, top-secret recipe and supply us Cayman folks with this delicacy. Her production size allows her to maintain her incredible devotion to quality control and consistency of flavour, colour and texture, all without dyes or preservatives. ( I can’t personally see the need for preservatives anyway; we gobble the jelly up in no time in our house!)

Crackers

The jelly is yummy eaten on Triscuits and with a good cheese. Pepper jelly fanatics swear by cream cheese, pepper jelly and crackers. It’s also lovely with Jamaican water crackers (a plain and very inexpensive biscuit-type cracker that can be found at any Cayman grocery store). My gang slathers it on toasted wheat bagels or Hardough bread (another yummy Caribbean treat-widely available in Cayman) and just about anything that looks cracker-like. It’s great on hot dogs, as a chutney, on pizza, or as a ham glaze. Try a dab on waffles with butter. Try it on rice cakes if you are watching calories. A little goes a long way!

Gourmet Pepper Jelly is a cook’s best friend. I use it frequently in many dishes. It’s great for sweet and sour sauces, dips, glazes, barbeque sauces, basting meatloaf, and all sorts of other uses. Some of my “famous” sauces owe quite a bit to Miss Carol’s secret mixture of locally grown Scotch Bonnet and special seasonings.

Carol Hay

Carol is purist when it comes to her product. She even grows her own Scotch Bonnet peppers, and has over 45 bushes of varying species. She keeps most of them in pots so she can pull them in to the safety of her garage during hurricane threats. The Scotch Bonnet is one of the hottest peppers in the world, and Carol wears a mask and snorkel when she makes the jellies. All this effort just so we can enjoy the best tasting jelly in all of the Caribbean!

In addition to having a jar around the house, Gourmet Pepper Jelly is the best possible welcome gift or departing gift for visitors to our lovely island. It’s 100% made in Cayman with tender loving care. Pick up your supply at Foster, Kirk’s or Hurley’s Supermarkets, all Cafe Del Sol locations, Pure Art Gallery, Pedro St. James, the Red Sail Sports Shop at Rum Point, The Bodden Town Art Shop, The National Trust Gift Shop,  all Jacques Scott locations and Guy Harvey’s Gallery.

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Fort Steet

Cafe Del Sol is Cayman’s largest purveyor of fine coffees, with 3 existing locations in Grand Cayman. The management is proud to announce a fourth much-needed location in busy downtown George Town: Cafe Del Sol Fort Street.

Interior

The bright and airy coffee shop is a beautiful place to stop and enjoy a fine coffee creation or a sandwich. The cafe is decorated with finest of natural materials, such as polished granite, rich honed woods, creamy colored tiles, Mediterranean decor, and fine art. The bustling shop has the usual Cafe Del Sol blend of loyal locals and tourists, all enjoying fresh bakery items, made-to-order sandwiches, smoothies, or top-notch coffee drinks. (Smoothies are made with fresh fruit and come in luscious flavors like banana, blueberry, mixed berry, strawberry-banana, blackberry, melon or mango.) If you like your coffee or tea drinks plain or fancy, Cafe Del Sol has whatever you desire to pick you up or soothe your nerves. An addition to fresh brewed specialty coffee and a large collection of fine teas, the menu features a full range of espresso creations, frappes and coffee alternatives such as Mexican Spiced Cocoa. Swing in and grab a bite to go, or settle in for the wi-fi internet and have your treat on-site. Either way, enjoy what the locals have known for years: Cafe Del Sol is the place to be for coffee, bakery, sandwiches, frozen drinks, and good conversations.

Cafe Del Sol

Pop into the other locations when you’re buzzing around elsewhere in GC: The Marquee Shopping Center off West Bay Road, Camana Bay next to Books and Books, and in downtown George Town on the waterfront in Aqua World Duty Free Mall next to Harley Davidson.

Enjoy!

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Are you in need of fine wines or spirits for your home liquor cabinet? The time to buy is Wild & Wacky Wednesdays in October at any Tortuga Rum retail location, because the folks at Tortuga are offering an unheard of 15% off of any wine or spirits purchase! Stock up now for the holidays, hostess gifts, parties, or for your own personal enjoyment! Tortuga has a fantastic selection of wines and spirits at every location. I don’t know a gosh-darn thing about wines, and the helpful staff is always terrific when I’m shopping for a party or a gift. They know their products, can help with food & wine pairings and can assist even the most clueless wine buyer (like me) with making an intelligent wine purchase. The selection of spirits and wine is excellent. My picky houseguests always make a stop at Tortuga to get a bottle of their favorite top-shelf indulgence when they stay with us, since they know Tortuga has everything from the basics to top of the line spirits and wines.

Stop in at any of the five Tortuga locations (see flyer) and pick up your favorite libations for 15% off, this Wednesday or any Wednesday in October.

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dermalogica

Are you dreaming of having better skin? Posh Spa has the perfect event for you: Skin Happy Hour, which will be held on Thursday, Oct 1st, 2009, from 5:00PM-8:00PM. New and existing clients are welcome!

Come in and get a complimentary Face Mapping Analysis, along with a customized skin care regime guaranteed to satisfy all your skin care needs. Face Mapping is a revolutionary new approach to skin analysis which provides skin professionals a comprehensive technique to analyze every aspect of their client’s skin. This makes the prescription of a home skin care regimen as focused on the client’s actual needs as possible. There will be a discount of 10% on all Dermalogica products purchased at the event!

Enjoy complimentary nibbles and wine, while you try exciting new products, like glominerals & Hollywood Fashion Tape, “The Star’s Secret to Preventing Wardrobe Malfunctions”. There will also be free nail art, and half price threading.

glominerals

Come on down to Posh Spa for an amazing evening and FREE treatments! C’mon ladies, this will be a great night to try some great new products for free, learn what the stars are doing, and have some fun. The experts at Posh are known for bringing cutting edge beauty products to the Cayman Islands and this event will be showcasing their latests finds. See you there!

Hollywood Fashion Tape

Posh Spa Lounge        19 Walkers Road        946-7121

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Welcome Home

Are you redoing a rental condo? Moving into a new home? Or simply in need of a fresh new look for a tired room in your home? Or how about that apartment you’re renting; does it need a few things that belong to you, so it looks like “your place”? Well, Cayman people, the most fabulous store has opened at Governor’s Square- “Welcome Home”. Walk in the door and you’ll swear you’re in San Fran, DC or Miami; the store is extremely chic and beautiful. The shocking surprise is the price of the merchandise:very, very reasonable. I had to actually look twice at some of the price tags because I could not believe my eyes. The Welcome Home concept is “High Style at Affordable Prices”. The good news is, the inventory changes constantly, and the store is already very popular, so you won’t be seeing the same things over and over again.  The art and decor items are purchased in very small quantities, so chances are you won’t be seeing something you purchased for your home in the home of someone else.  There will be elegant and stylish events like ‘Black Tie Christmas”, where the store will be decorated in Black, Silver and Red.

Chairs

The inventory is an appealing mixture of casual-chic and elegance. Lots gleaming polished aluminum candlesticks, unusual mirrors, picture frames, and no-tarnish serving pieces. There are lovely silk orchids and other silk plants. The furniture is beautiful: chairs and tables that fuse traditional style with contemporary finishes and upholstery. There are exceptionally pretty toss pillows, super gorgeous glass candle holders, and a trio of over-sized pillar candle holders in polished aluminum that you might want to rush in and buy soon, because I have my eye on them!

Decor

Welcome Home is the place to go for gifts. There are many small items that would make anyone feel better, so if someone needs a lift during this gloomy rainy season, pop over to Welcome Home and pick up a treasure to cheer them up. Anne Roberts or Susan Abbott might be around to help, these two helpful gals are the sisters who brought “Welcome Home” to Cayman. (Susan is the well known marketing & retail person who owns the boutique “Just Add Water” here in Cayman.”)

Silks

I am getting ready to put a condo on the market, and I’m going to box up all our outdated kick-knacks and sweep in with some chic Welcome Home accessories. So you’d better get in there before my big shopping spree!

Welcome Home   10:00 AM-6:00 PM Monday-Saturday

345-949-4663

Governors Square

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I purchased some of these sausages at the Market at the Grounds, the local farmer’s market held here in the Cayman Islands. I was thinking they would be a good alternative to the supermarket variety. I had no idea that my family would go completely WILD for these amazing, gourmet, perfectly seasoned masterpieces.

David comes from a long line of butchers in Ireland. He moved to the Cayman Islands six years ago where he met the love of his life, Miss Jackie, and the rest is history. David worked for The Cracked Conch, The Westin Casuarina, Mezza, and The Ritz Carlton, Grand Cayman. He had owned a restaurant prior to living in Cayman, and he wanted to be the captain of his own ship again. His dream was to produce his own locally made sausages.

Today, his dreams have become a reality. Caribo Sausages is a well-known brand in the Cayman Islands, and the company supplies many of the top restaurants here. However, they have an extremely loyal following with local households…like mine! The flavors are a fusion of global, European, Caribbean, and distinctly Caymanian.

Caribo’s extensive sausage menu includes choices such as Seafood, Pork/Cranberry-Stilton, Jerk Chicken, Hot Italian, Chorizo, Beef & Cheddar, Bratwurst, British Bangers, Jerk Pork, Korma Curry Chicken, Cuban Style Sausage, Lamb Merguez, and Hickory Smoked Maple Ham Steaks, and many more. If you like, you can choose a 3 pound “Selection Pack” and sample to your heart’s content!

David tests, samples, and researches every new product extensively before introducing it. (I will post any updates if he is hiring any “tasters”!)

Caribo’s delivers, too! Just give them a call to order your tray for home, office or beach party deliveries. They freeze beautifully. Minimum order: 6 lbs. Otherwise, Call 324-1207, or 946-1999 or visit them at The Grounds Market Place at The Stacey Watler Agricultural Pavilion in Savannah (at the Farmer’s market) Saturday’s 7:00 AM to 12:30 PM. If you get the chance, introduce yourself to David & Jackie and talk to them about how they make their product. They are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, and you’ll be amazed at the dedication they have to their product. And if they are giving out samples, by all means, get your hands on one! De-lish!

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Hot Lava Shell

Ladies, have you “been there, done that” with exotic massage treatments? Well, we’ve got a new treatment to knock your socks off at Tips N Toes: The Hot Lava Shell Massage! It’s a hot stone massage with an island twist: instead of stones, South Pacific Tiger Striped Clam Shells are filled with LavaGel, which auto-heats them to the perfect temperature for your massage. (We think that the Tips N Toes experts stay up late at night, dreaming up new ways to keep us gorgeous!) This versatile spa treatment can be used any way you wish: to relieve muscle soreness, to relieve stress & tension, or just to chillax! The shells can be used for long, relaxing strokes, or for deep tissue massage. Be sure to discuss your goals and needs with your massage therapist before your session to make sure you get the most out of your treatment.

This is a totally ergonomic and green treatment-no electricity required! Just you, the massage professional, and nature’s finest materials. What could be more relaxing?

50 Minute Treatment-CI $95.00

80 Minute Treatment-CI $130.00

Call 345-943-8637 to make your appointment or stop by the store in Bayshore Mall on Harbour Drive.

www.tipsntoes.ky

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Humane Society

Are you a cat or dog lover? GOOD! There are two ways you can help the super-duper hard working folks at the Cayman Islands Humane Society this weekend, with two different events to show your support.

The first neat opportunity to show your support is a signature charity event held at The Lighthouse Restaurant in Breakers on Saturday, September 19th, from noon until 2:00 PM. It’s a special cooking class with celebrity Chef Remy, and there will be several VIP celebrity guests. Hint…his Excellency Governor Stuart Jack! Indeed!

The Lighthouse

Upon arrival, nibble on excellent Canapes and Prosecco before being seated for a full four course lunch with wine. Enjoy spectacular views of the beautiful Caribbean Sea, hobnob with celebrity chefs, guests, and good hearted animal lovers, all for the amazingly reasonable price of only CI $70.00! And every penny goes to the Humane Society. I have spent some time at this tremendous organization, and I can tell you that $70.00 goes a long way. The volunteers save lives each and every day. They take strays and unwanted animals, care for them and love them, and they become cherished pets for hundreds of Cayman families. Enjoy a grand day afternoon at The Lighthouse for a great cause!

Please call 345-947-2047, and say your reservation is for the Celebrity Cooking Class. A credit card will be required for a reservation. Space is limited for 36 people-first come, first serve, so call soon. Maybe you’ll be chatting up the Governor at lunch!

The second event is the fun and irresistible Yappy Hour! Held annually at Coconut Joes, the it’s a chance to get your car washed, or your dogs washed, or both! Bring in your dirty dogs and cars, and get ‘em cleaned up while you kick back with an ice cold drink at the bar. There are even special doggy cakes for your pooches.

As always, this is a free event, but DONATIONS ARE WELCOME! All proceeds benefit the Cayman Islands Humane Society.

Car Wash: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Dog Wash: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Even if you don’t have a doggy, join the fun.  Bring a few bucks for the donation, and have a few cold ones; there are drink specials all day!

Please pick one of these event and support the Humane Society this weekend. See ya at Yappy Hour! I’ll be there with with Beano, the Toy Fox Terrier and Tiffy, the Maltese, our two rescued doggies!

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Aqua Aerobics

Are you looking for a different way to burn fat and get lean? Are you bored with the gym, or running on the beach? Join the Water Aerobics craze at Swim and Trim!With no risk of injury to your joints, water aerobics puts zero stress on knees and hips but you get all the cardio benefits! Plus, you won’t get bored; it’s a total blast. The time flies by when you’re in the water splashing around. You’ll feel like a kid again, and you won’t even notice that you’re getting the cardio workout of a lifetime! Models and athletes all over the world use this method of exercise as way to blast off fat, get lean, and create beautiful muscle tone without ever picking up a dumbbell.

Water Aerobics

Every Monday and Wednesday at 5:30 PM, Every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 AM

The Grand Pavilion Pool

www.swimandtrim.ky      swimandtrimcayman@gmail.com   345-926-1408

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