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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arroz con Pollo de Perez-Puelles Recipe
Cuban Arroz con Pollo Recipe de Perez-Puelles Cuba Nostalgia Before our lives were turned upside down in 1959, most Sunday afternoons were spent at my grandmother’s house in Havana. We would be dressed impeccably as it was always a special occasion. She found a way to fit everyone - aunts, uncles, cousins - around her table and she usually made ...
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 ...
Chocolaton (Chocolate Mousse) Recipe
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 ...
Pork Chops Spiced with Rum and Garlic
Rum and Garlic Spiced Pork Chops Recipe - A DiscoveryToday was Columbus Day.Yet another reason to celebrate in our Cuban American household.If you know your Cuban history, you probably know that Columbus landed somewhere in Holguin, Cuba, in October of 1492, and declared that it was "the most beautiful land human eyes have ever seen." (My ...
Platanos en Tentacion Recipe
Platanos en Tentacíon Recipe Sometimes my family sits around and has noisy, opinionated andpointless discussions. (Hello? Cubans!) In this case, we were discussing the wonders of plantains and engaging in the Eternal Cuban debate: Maduros or Tostones? It depends on the main dish you’re serving, of course. I mean, I love a good tostón with garlic ...
