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Cuban Christmas

Enjoy these Cuban Christmas traditions, Cuban recipes, and stories from my family to yours. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Cuban Christmas!

It’s Cuban Christmas Crema De Vie Time!

December 7, 2017 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

It’s Cuban Christmas Crema De Vie Time!

It really is the most wonderful time of the year. And as I'm fond of saying, Christmastime is absolutely the best time of the year to be Cuban.  Why? I wrote all about that right here: 10 Things That Are Awesome About Being Cuban at Christmas. You're welcome. You'll notice that the very first thing on that list is Crema de Vie. It's our own ...

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My Big Fat Cuban Christmas Gift Guide 2017

December 8, 2017 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

My Big Fat Cuban Christmas Gift Guide 2017

{This is not a sponsored post. All the businesses I'm promoting happen to be ones that I personally like and can recommend.} Christmas shopping is wonderful and terrible, isn't it? We are all generous people and if you're anything like me (and I know you are) you're always looking for the very best Christmas gift for the people on your Nice ...

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Get It Before Christmas

December 2, 2017 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Get It Before Christmas

Let me explain Cuban Gift Giving for just a moment. At least how it has always worked in my family. The Scene: You're at a family gathering, which for a Cuban family pretty much means any night of the week or stray weekend. You mention that you saw a cute ________ (<--insert name of cute thing you saw in passing) at a shop nearby while you were ...

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Gift Ideas You Will LOVE. I promise.

October 25, 2017 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Gift Ideas You Will LOVE. I promise.

{DISCLOSURE: I've partnered with one of my favorite online shops, Uncommon Goods to write this post, all opinions that follow are my own.} First, I feel like I have to explain where I stand on Christmas and decorating and shopping before I share all these wonderful ideas. I, like pretty much everyone else, LOVE Christmas. But I really don't like ...

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Deck the Hall With Arturo Sandoval

December 15, 2016 By Marta Darby 6 Comments

Deck the Hall With Arturo Sandoval

I often say that there's nothing better than being Cuban at Christmas. Click here to read 10 Things That Are Awesome About Being Cuban At Christmas for the definitive proof that I'm right. I was delighted to learn that El Maestro, Arturo Sandoval and his Big Band will be Decking the Hall - the Walt Disney Concert Hall - next week.  Do you hear ...

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Getting It Before Christmas

December 13, 2016 By Marta Darby 3 Comments

Getting It Before Christmas

I'm a giver. That's just in my Cuban DNA.  Maybe it's something in my personal genetic programming, but I have a hard time saying, "no."  "Do you want me to do something that will take me lots of time I don't have?"  "Yes. Of course I'll do it."  I'm convinced it all started with my family of origin. Have you ever tried to say, "no" to your ...

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Love Me, Love My Tech Christmas Gift Guide

December 12, 2016 By Marta Darby Leave a Comment

Love Me, Love My Tech Christmas Gift Guide

{This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Amazon and #WeAllGrow Latina Network. The opinions and text are all my own.} It's no secret that I'm a lover of all things Cuban. But did you further know that I'm a lover of all kinds of techie devices?  My daughter, Lucy just moved to Austin and we were able to text with her and ...

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The Smart Cuban’s Christmas Gift Guide

December 6, 2016 By Marta Darby 7 Comments

The Smart Cuban’s Christmas Gift Guide

Who doesn't appreciate a little shopping help at this time of year? Of course, I know you can head down to the local mall and spend a few frustrating hours hunting from store to store to find just the right thing. Of course, there's always the issue of finding a convenient place to park and fighting the Battle of the Parking Structure. And this ...

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My Big Fat Cuban Christmas Playlist

December 5, 2016 By Marta Darby 2 Comments

My Big Fat Cuban Christmas Playlist

Do you love everything about December? I absolutely do. Also, being Cuban at Christmas is like the best thing ever.  I wrote about that here: 10 Things That Are Awesome About Being Cuban At Christmas. You're welcome.  And because I'm a giver and you asked for it, I created a very Cuban Christmas playlist for you to enjoy while you're making your ...

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Crema de Vie (Cuban Egg Nog) Recipe

July 27, 2016 By Marta Darby

Crema de Vie (Cuban Egg Nog) Recipe

Cuban Crema de Vie Recipe - A Toast! In the first few years of my family’s exile, we still had high hopes that that whole pesky revolution nonsense would quickly blow over. Every year around the holidays we would make our Cuban egg nog, which we call Crème de Vie (or Crema de Vie - “the cream of life”). Every year we would raise our glasses at ...

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El Dia de Los Reyes

January 6, 2016 By Marta Darby

El Dia de Los Reyes

Happy New Year!  January 6th, marks the Feast of the Epiphany on the Catholic Church calendar.If you were counting the 12 days of Christmas - from December 25th until the 5th of January - you would have just received your 12 Lords a Leaping. And you would probably be frantically posting stuff on eBay, ...

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How to Make a Cuban Roast Leg of Pork

December 18, 2015 By Lucy Darby 1 Comment

How to Make a Cuban Roast Leg of Pork

Every year around Christmastime, I think I'll post the instructions for how to roast a Cuban-style leg of pork. Because that's what my family (and most every Cuban family I know) eats on December 24th as we celebrate our traditional Cuban Nochebuena. And every year when there's a garlicky, porky, fat mess in my kitchen, I forbid cameras because ...

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A Red Letter Day

December 4, 2014 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

A Red Letter Day

In looking to review the things I have not blogged about, particularly parties from this year, I came across the photos we took last year at Christmas. And in keeping with my theme of Oversharing About My Parties Week, and since it's December, I thought I'd actually share some holiday party stuff from last year. (Because I'm usually ...

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Finding Joy

December 23, 2013 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Finding Joy

There has been so much preparation leading up to this week. Of course, I'm sure it's been like that in every home that celebrates Christmas. And also, did it seem like December just vanished in a puff of smoke, or is that just me? We're not the people who put up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. We take our time and ...

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Nochebuena in the O.C. (¡Oh, Sí!)

December 29, 2012 By Marta Darby 1 Comment

Nochebuena in the O.C. (¡Oh, Sí!)

I'm just now recovering from the Food Coma that has ensued since our fabulous Nochebuena celebration. Once again it fell to me to host My Big, Fat, Cuban Family for our big Cuban feast on December the 24th. Cubans celebrate Christmas Eve more so than Christmas Day. It's a fall-back, I think, to the days when we actually celebrated the 12 ...

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Starting our Nochebuena right – Thank you, Avocados from Mexico.

December 21, 2012 By Marta Darby 5 Comments

Starting our Nochebuena right – Thank you, Avocados from Mexico.

Nochebuena preparations are in full swing around here. The pig is happily marinating in the Mojo Criollo I told you about a few days ago. The Matervas are chilling in the fridge. Lucy is out in the world on a hunt for Turrones. Every time the phone rings or there is a text, it is Christmas related. My sister, Helen, calls: "We need an ...

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