It’s still party time here at My Big Fat Cuban Family. As you know we are celebrating 10 whole years in the blogosphere. As promised, I’d like to kick off the Celebration with the first of some very Cuban Giveaways.
If you haven’t already heard of Abuela Mami, you are seriously missing out! I gushed wrote about them here.
I know it’s hard for people who live in Miami to even fathom that it may be difficult to get any Cuban products. But please understand that there’s not a Publix on every corner in every city. Here in Southern California procuring guayaba or mojo criollo requires a road trip. Some people don’t even have that luxury.
So for those of you who want a piece of home delivered every month right to your doorstep, they’ve got you covered. This subscription service is everything you’ve wanted.
Picture this beautiful scene: The mailman delivers your mail along with a small brown package with that cool Abuela Mami logo. Your heart skips a beat as you realize there will be a wonderfully Cuban surprise inside. You slowly rip into the box to find items both familiar and iconic. It’s going to be a wonderful day.
And you get to experience this EVERY. MONTH. Genius. Seriously. Watch this!
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I love to read this blog
Your food looks yummy!
I would love to surprise my Cuban mom with a little bit of Cuba here in NJ.
I love your Blog page Martha and your family stories. I think all of us Cubans have similar ines. Abuela Mami is our latest love.
I really miss the meregues and the platano chips. Always reminds me of my own abuelita. She passed away many years ago.
Cuban bread
Now that I living in SC, I miss being able to get hot Miami style pastelitos on every corner!
Maria cookies. Simple but delicious!
Marquita I could eat the whole bsg
Violetas 🙂 It just screams of my childhood.
I do miss pastelitos and would miss cafe bustelo.
I would really miss Cuban crackers if I could not find them at my store.
Aguacate and guava pastries
Love the blog I live in a state where their is not much Latin food. I will love to have some comfort food of my Cuban roots
Love your blog Marta!! I just showed my son this and told him to get me and my mom this . So we can make him some yummy Cuban food lol.
Cortaditos, pasta de bocadito, pastel de queso
Café cubano and roast pork.
Croquetas..life without those no es vida!
Cubanos
No doubt I would miss pasta de guayaba y queso crema if I were in a sweet mood; or if I was in a savory mood, a fresh crunchy croqueta.
Why… CROQUETAS of course!
I miss Cuban bread and pastelitos
I need a new cafetera – and instructions on how to make a good cup of Cuban cafecito!
Plantain chips or cafe Bustelo
I would mostly miss cuban coffee and cuban crackers, dulce de guayaba too and many more LOL.
I miss pastel de guayaba , and pastelitos, and cortaditios.
I am from Hialeah, now living near Chicago. I miss cafe cubano, guava pastries, and adore croquetas! Also miss the original grandma’s style merenguitos! Can’t find them anywhere.
My cuban crackers would be at the top of the list followed by pastelitos de carne (meat pies) and mariquitas!
I love the blog and will be checking out Abuela Mami as potential christmas gifts for my family!
I would miss the coffee!!
OMG… This is awesome! Unfortately,
where we live in Cantley, Quebec or in
any of the surrounding cities, they do
not sell any Cuban products. Since I
Son of Cuban parents, the only time I can
get anything delicious is when my Mother
Rose brings some with her during her
visits LOL 🙂
A good pouch of cafe bustelo to make my cafecito with espumita!!
I might die if I couldn’t have any Materva!
Mmm…Materva.
Even in Florida fresh Cuban bread is scarce, but pastel de guayaba is a must!
I love reading your blog ?
iIwould miss all and anything made with guava. Cuban cafecito is a must, cuban crackers with cream cheese. Bottom line I guess I would miss a lot ?
Love reading your blog , stories& the recipes!! All of us cubanitas that came about the same time have slot in common! & thank God , our wonderful parents taught us to remember our roots ! Which we all seem to love!! I love all the Cuban goodies, & everytome I eat or find some here in Las Vegas , it reminds me of my loving Cuban family:) ( which I miss , they’re in heaven now) !
My GF and I live in AZ, and we’re always talking about the Cuban stuff that we miss out here…I would say that the two biggest for me are Cuban bread and croquetas …
I would definately miss Cuban crackers and guayaba!!! Which i do miss since moving to Texas.
Love everything Cuban!… Great website!
I miss a good cafe con leche. You can’t find it in Tennessee and when you ask people look at you with a blank stare. ?
Pan Cubano! It’s been years since I’ve had it and I can’t get it in Arizona!
A fresh batido de mamey.
Pastelitos!
I would definitely have to say Cuban coffee
because I can’t function without it throughout
the day. Everyone knows not to say nada to me
until I have had my cup of café?
Those Cuban crackers man.
There are so many Cuban things I miss from living my whole life in Miami, growing up in La Pequena Havana, that it’s hard to make a decision! I guess I really miss walking to the bakery on the weekend and getting a fresh, hot from the oven Cuban bread and eating half it on the way back home. In Missouri, my new home, bakery means doughnuts and turnovers ): not empanadas, pastelitos, y CROQUETAS!
Living in Utah I miss all our wonderful Cuban food. Croquetas y pastelitos de carne would be at the top of my list, now I only see them in my memories of days gone past…..
Besides my mom’s cooking, pan Cubano y Croquetas!
I love your page Marta and also all your pictures. I would really miss galletas and also guayaba (barra). How I love them together for snack or dessert!! ?
I’m living in Australia. Between my MomNieves and my Cousin Luisita, I’m stocked with dulce de leche and Cuban coffee.. But lately , what I’m craving is batido de Mamey. So the search is on here in Oz. and yes, I would Love Croquetas, and Cuban bread but I think I will have to wait to travel back to that side of the planet. Now I’m hungry
Pastelitos Cuban bread and definitely croquetad!! Sorry I couldn’t just pick 1.
I would miss guava paste too. Yum.
Vino Seco Edmundo, it gives Cuban food that nostalgic flavor of my mother’s cooking. You miss Cuban items that you never ate in Miami, but just knowing you cannot find them at the grocery store makes you want them.
My example was Pan de Media Noche and Cuban Crackers. Publix is now stocking some Cuban items and a Latin Market opened up in town…………………yeah. I’m only 2 hours from a Sedano’s.
My mom who still lives in Tampa mails me pasta de guayaba on occasion ?? but I still want more of it! And I miss cuban bread so much, cuban toast on French bread is not the same
I miss fresh Pastelitos de guayaba con queso crema and Materva!!! Across from Miami High there was this little Cuban grocery store that had one of those window for café. We’d run over there during lunch for papas reyenas and a pastelito. Those papas reyenas were the size of softballs and were warm and would be all the lunch you needed!
I WOULD MISS EVERYTHING CUBAN! I’M A CUBAN ADDICT! I THINK I MUST HAVE BEEN BORN CUBAN IN A PREVIOUS LIFE! PICKMEPICKMEPICKMEPICKME!
Croquetas por siempre!!!
My mom remarried a gringo when I was 4 and my new step sister was 2. Now 34 and 32 I am still in Miami while she is in Tampa and I am constantly sending her cuban stuff that she NEEDS. Pilón being one of them. I even brought Cuban Food from here to her wedding in Tampa! But what she misses most is Violetas for the baby!
Pastellitos!
What would I miss? Discos to make empanadas, of course
Definitivamente el cafe! Me muero sin mi cafe cubano!
I would die without my Cafe La Llave!
I really miss Cuban Crackers and Croquetas.
Hola! Since I moved I really miss Pan Cubano. I’ve tried to visit restaurants listed as Cuban, but they only serve Puerto Rican bread. It’s okay, but it JUST not the same. I’ve also tried to make it; the taste is good, but it doesn’t have the crunch and the airiness of true Pan Cubano. A crucial part of cuban meals,especially Cuban Breakfast, pan is essential and cannot be replaced with anything else when making pan tostado con mantequilla or any type of cuban sandwich. Uff, if i could eat some pan cubano, I would make myself a café con leche, with a pinch of salt like my grandmother made it, so I could dunk my pan tostado con mantequilla in it.
I recently moved to Colorado and I’m so home sick! We take our little things for granted… I totally miss tostadas and the ease of buying una colada. I also believe it or not naranja agria and un palo de trapear!! ? I had to order one on amazon along with the orange frazada!! Would love some abuela mami stuff!!
Love your blog and recipes! I live in NJ and have access to good Cuban products and food. My abuela’s croquetas, natilla and pasta de guayana is what I would miss if I didn’t have them but the one item I would truly miss if I had to go without is Mojo criollo. It goes in almost all of my dishes and seasonings.
Maria crackers!!!! Brings back wonderful memories
I would mostly miss my cafecito!! Y si le agregan el pan ? Cubano o él pastelito de guayaba. Yummy ?
Mine would not be a food item but instead it would be…….drum roll por favor……. Augustin Reyes Violetas!
I wear it myself but now that I am a Wela like you…..I can’t imagine not having it to lather my beautiful nieto with!
mojo criollo, si no hay mojo criollo en mi casa me meto en problemas!
Aguacate, mangos y mamey
My biggest gripe is that I miss pasta de guayaba, galletas cubanas and materva! Those things are hard to find here in Oceanside CA.
Pan Cubano y un cafecito!!!
It would definitely be pasta de guayaba.
I’d miss cafe cubano the most.
Pan cubano y cafe
My pastor gets the Abuela Mami boxes and loves them. Pasta de guayaba! Porque si no hubiera mi esposa no podría preparar pastelitos (pasta de guayana, because if we couldn’t get it my wife couldn’t make pastelitos).
Pastellito de carne and some cafecito Cubano
PRU ORIENTAL! I imagine that Abuela Mami boxes don’t include this, but I would be happy with any of the other foods or drinks mentioned below! I would love to try out your pastelitos de guayaba recipe! I’m so glad I discovered your blog today! MIL GRACIAS!
I was born in Miami and moved north to Stuart, Fl…I do so miss my fix of cuban coffee, cuban toast and dinners of vaca frita, among others. Finished off with flan for dessert……we had only one cuban restaurant locally and now it is gone.?
I would miss by cafecito con leche!
So yummy!!
I would miss the Goya Sazon con azafran. I took several packets when we went to Colombia for 5 weeks. ?
Living in Miami there is Cuban food all over and Cuban Restaurant but the number one supermarket for Cuban food is El Sedano Supermarket Publix is more American than Cuba the have Cuban product but not like el Sedanos Supermarket and other one is El Precidente Supermarket.
I love El Sedanos they have litter Cafeteria and the best Pan con Bistec is true what you said I live before in California in Mission Viejo and we drive avary Sundays to Posto Baykary for pan Cubano ,pastelitos y Croquetas y las Galletas
Is been long time you don’t post in your blog well comeback I enjoy your blog a lot
Have nice day,
Isora Martinez mas Cubana que las Palma
XO