Cookoff from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen I have to feed about a dozen football fans on Superbowl Sunday. I would prefer to make one big pot of something rather than a bunch of little snacks. My husband suggests chili. One pot. Hearty. Will feed an army. “It’s a Superbowl Classic,” he argues. Okay, I might have to agree there, but . . ...
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Crockpot Vaca Frita Recipe
“I’ve got a cousin . . .” – from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen I think it’s a given that if you’re Cuban, you’ve got a cousin (or twelve) somewhere. It’s absolutely normal, in a kind of abnormal way. I’ll go toe-to-toe with any of my American friends on this one. Name any place on the planet, I’ve got a cousin there. First cousin, second cousin ...
Crockpot Rope Vieja Recipe
Cuban Ropa Vieja Recipe In A Slow Cooker When we arrived in Miami in the early 60’s, we barely had enough money to cover basic expenses. As you can imagine, rent, utilities, and food dominated the budget. Because we left Cuba with just the suitcases we could carry, we were glad to receive donated clothing. We were grateful for other people’s ...
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 ...
Costillitas de Puerco Recipe
It’s the Little Things from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen If you’re Cuban, you know that we love to refer to things diminutively. For example, we don’t just have café. We have a cafécito. And to my big, fat Cuban family and friends, I’m not always Marta, I’m Martica. Which is totally fine by me. The diminutive form of the word makes people and ...
Churros Recipe
Marta's Homemade Cuban Churros Recipe Making a Memory aka How To Make Churros My kids were all born here in Southern California. My husband is also a native Californian. So the only kind of churros they've ever known have come from a cart at Disneyland.But those are Mexican-style. They are hard and crunchy with lots of brown sugar. They are ...
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!) ...
(Not-My-Tio-Fernando’s) Bread Pudding Recipe
Bread Pudding Recipe - Pudín de Pan My 97-year-old uncle, Fernando, lives in Miami. My 94-year-old mother, who lives here in California, visits her big brother (!!) at least once a year. Tio Fernando loves bread pudding and so, my mom, being the devoted little sister that she is, insists on bringing him the bread pudding he loves so much. She ...
Roast Chicken – Pollo Asado Recipe
Whole Roast Chicken - Pollo Asado Lost In Translation My son, Adam is a handsome guy. (Okay, I know I’m his mom and all that, but I am being truly objective here. Shut up.) And even though he’s not fluent in Spanish, he can defend himself pretty well for the most part.So he was visiting my mom (his grandmother) the other day. She speaks as ...
