UPDATE: gave a trial run with several substitution ingredients, and without saltfish. Was going to use the regular cod i had in fridge but held back and just concentrated on the ackee w/out the saltfish. Not sure where to get saltfish, but am working on it. Boiled the ackee, then pan fried with jalapeno peppers, yellow pepper, onions, small potatoes. Pretty good. Real test will be with scotch bonnet peppers and saltfish. BTW the ackee price was 2 cans Grace ackee for $1.00 - if you can believe that. Got it at a overstock grocery place last December, where they sell dented cans etc, bought them out which was 4 cans. The outer portion of the cans were in good shape, that is not dented, but the expire date was Nov 2011. I used one can which was enough for two breakfasts for one person, which means i packaged up the leftovers for the next day. Now in JA land, i remember the locals saying if the ackee is not ripe, and picked at the right time, you could be in trouble. Keeping boiled ackee in fridge as leftover was a concern, but appears to have worked, since i am moving around w/out incident today, one day after finishing off the leftovers. Good meals! More later....
