Crusty Pan Cubano Recipe In My Test Kitchen Simple logic: I'm Cuban. I like to eat Cuban food. Therefore I cook. Since I've started posting my recipes over at Babalú I have been cooking like a mad Cuban woman. (Much to my family's delight.) They are all loving that I'm playing Test Kitchen here. The buzz starts the night before as I'm ...
Cuban Picadillo Recipe
Cuban Picadillo Recipe - Comfort Food I love to cook and entertain and I almost always make Cuban food when we have company. People are usually surprised that even the simplest food is so flavorful. In the early 60’s when we were new to this country, my mom experimented with all kinds of traditional, inexpensive American foods. We kids went along ...
Guava Cheesecake Recipe
Guava Cheesecake Recipe: Move Over, Pumpkin Pie! So, I’m still on my quixotic quest of declaring November as National Guava Month. To that end, I am happy to share my recipe for Guava Cheesecake in time for you to make it for “El Sanguibin.” Of course, the main ingredient in cheesecake is cream cheese, which is inexorably tied to Philadelphia ...
Garlicky Chicken Recipe
“How’s my breath?” from Marta’s Cuban American KitchenMy dad used to swear by the medicinal properties of garlic. “Garlic,” he would always say, “is a natural antibiotic.” He usually made this pronouncement as he was pouring olive oil over toasted Cuban bread and spreading garlic over it to make himself a sandwich. Yes, a sandwich. (This is ...
Cuban Coffee – How To Make It
How to Make Cuban Coffee (Café Cubano) - The Perfect Blend If there’s one thing we Cubans know how to do well (besides dancing and cooking and arguing, but that’s not important right now), it’s how to make the Best Coffee on This Earth. AKA Café Cubano. "Un espresso, por favor." Or better yet, "Un cafecito, plis." <--That's the Cuban (or Buen ...
Fricase de Pollo Recipe
Fricasé de Pollo Recipe - a lo Cubano As you know, I've recently been participating in Mizkan's™ Cooking Challenges. See here and here. To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15), we were asked to share a recipe from our country, or "Receta de Mi Pais." For this challenge, I chose to enter one of my family's ...
Bananas de Marta Recipe
Marta's Rum Bananas Recipe On the Food Network of My Mind I have a confession to make. I sometimes fantasize about having a cooking show. Not all the time, of course. But I do have moments. To be honest, most of the time I’m just trying to get a meal on the table and dodging bodies in my small kitchen and wishing I had a staff to clean up after ...
Bacon-Wrapped Date Appetizers Recipe
Bacon-Wrapped Dates Recipe With Pictures October 30, 2012 Thanksgiving (el Sanguibin) with my big, fat Cuban family is always a wonderful and fun celebration. As Cuban refugees who are now proud American citizens, we are mindful of just how much we have to be thankful for. In my family, while we’re waiting for the birds to fry, (oh yes, we do!) ...
Oven-Baked Beer Coke Can Chicken Recipe
The Best Laid Plans from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen I had a wonderful master plan. I swear did. I know I’ve been AWOL for a while now. I’ve been taking some much needed time off from cooking and blogging. Rest assured, I am still cooking and I am still blogging. I just haven’t done them concurrently for the past couple of months, but that’s ...
Fufú Recipe
“Ju got some ‘splaining to do..” from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen It seems to me that being Cuban has always meant explaining things. Maybe it’s just living in Southern California where there are just pockets of Cuban communities, but the majority of the Hispanic population is Mexican. I confess the questions sometimes sound ignorant to me. ...
