Chocolatón - Chocolate Mousse RecipeI’m celebrating a notable anniversary today.February 14th was my family’s very first full day in the United States so many years ago. We had arrived the day before, on my dad's 50th birthday and it seemed to take forever to get through customs and get acclimated and move into our new (very cramped) apartment in ...
Archives for July 2016
Chicken Soup Recipe: Cuban-style
Classic Chicken Soup Recipe: Cuban-style I'm sick. And so's Eric. *cough, sniff* We've got feverish-coughing-sneezing-and-hacking colds. *hack, sniff, achoo!* A good, old-fashioned snotty-stuffy-headed cold. And there are certain things one does when one is Cuban (or happens to live with a Cuban) and has a cold. My friend, Chantel over at ...
Carne con Papas Recipe
Carne Con Papas Recipe The Question I work from my home, and I homeschool my kids, which means I field all kinds of questions from them all day long. And even though I love to cook and try out tons of recipes and nothing makes me happier than hungry mouths to fill, there is one particular question that always makes me feel pressured: “What’s for ...
Boliche – Cuban Pot Roast Recipe
Boliche Recipe - Cuban Pot Roast Recipe - In the Crockpot If I Had a Superpower Sometimes when my family is around the dinner table, we play games where we ask hypothetical questions. The discussions always take an interesting turn as we dig into our imaginations to try and one-up each other. A few nights ago, my son, Jonathan threw out this ...
Bistec de Palomilla Recipe
Bistec de Palomilla Recipe The Secret Ingredient My uncle is here with us visiting from Cuba. Of course that means that my entire family is going out of their way to show him a good time for the duration of his stay. We’re taking him places and showing him around Southern California and all that it entails. “Que quieres ver?” “Quiero verlo ...
Cuban Butter Cake Recipe
Taking the Cake It's not often that the entire family has the same craving at the very same time, but occasionally it happens. The dinner conversation started innocently enough. "Best dessert you've ever had. Go!" "Mom's Chocolate Mousse." "The triple layer chocolate cake from the Daily Grill." "Lemon bars." "Pastelitos de guayaba. ...
Batido de Mamey Recipe
Batido de Mamey Recipe (Mamey Smoothie) The Glass is Half-Full My family and I are on vacation this week. And I confess that I was going to skip posting a recipe (Shut up. I know!) because I was busy preparing what I’d take and planning what we would do. But then, I started thinking of summer… Ah, summer. I started thinking about how I’m ...
Avocado Salad (Cuban Style) Recipe
Avocado Salad Recipe Growing up Cuban meant we didn't eat many salads. And by "many," I mean, "none." For the most part, the only time green things appeared on our plates were the tiny, diced pieces of bell pepper in our sofrito. (For the uninformed, sofrito is at the beginning of most Cuban dishes. Sauteed onion, garlic, and green bell pepper ...
Arroz Frito con Lechon Recipe
Cuban-Chinese Arroz Frito con Lechón Recipe Here's a pop quiz... What do you do with the leftovers the day after the Lechón Asado? (even if it's just out of a crockpot.)Okay. That was too easy. So what do you do after you've had as much Pan con Lechón as you can stuff yourself with? What happens when you have exhausted your basic lechón ...
Arroz con Salchichas Recipe
Arroz con Salchichas RecipeSmells Like Cuban FoodYou know you’re in a Cuban home if, when you walk in, you can smell The Smell. You know what I’m talking about - that unmistakable, mouth-watering, oh-so-inviting, my-mom-is-amazing, God-I-love-Cuban-food smell.It all begins with a simple onion, a luscious green bell pepper and some garlic cloves – ...
