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 ...
Cuban Recipes With Pictures - Cuban Dishes
We hope you enjoy these delicious and authentic Cuban recipes. These are fun Cuban dishes from Marta's Cuban-American Kitchen!
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 – ...
Ajiaco in Slow Cooker Recipe
Cuban Ajiaco Recipe in a Slow Cooker I made some Ajiaco in my crockpot and I just have to share it. But first some background... In the 1930’s, Cuban President Gerardo Machado made a proclamation that once a week everyone on the island would eat an “ajiaco” – a type of country stew made mostly with root vegetables and flavored with meat. ...
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 ...
Sweet and Sour Guava Meatballs Recipe
Acabando Pronto from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen The entire month of December has flown by in a blur. Like many of you this time of year brings lots of scheduling challenges, but also lots of opportunities for gathering with friends and family, which is of course, The Best Part. There is always that last minute invitation to which I always ...
