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 ...
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!
Torrejas Recipe – Stuffed with Guava & Cream Cheese
Torrejas Recipe with Guava and Cream Cheese Stuffing Family: “Yay! Guava paste and cream cheese! You’re making Refugiados, aren’t you?” Me: “Good guess. No. I’m making This-Up-As-I-Go.” =DIf there is anything we Cubans love more than our coladitos 12 times a day, it is a new use for guava. Preferably with cream cheese. I decided to do a ...
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 ...
Arroz con Maiz Recipe
Arroz con Maiz Recipe - An Original Thanksgiving Side Dish Cuban-style Thanksgiving with my big, fat, Cuban family is usually a very typical American feast. But because my family has so many amazing cooks, we're often trying new recipes and sometimes we like to put a spin on some old classics. Our turkeys have run the gamut from deep-fried to ...
Arroz con Leche Recipe
Arroz Con Leche Recipe Why Cuban Women Make Great Wives All the young people in my big, fat, Cuban family seem to be getting married all of a sudden. I think there’s something in the water. My nephew, Michael got married last summer (which gave us an excuse to GO to Miami, but that’s not important right now) and now there are two more weddings ...
Empanada Gigante Recipe (La Empanada Que Se Le Perdio a Santa Barbara)
Giant Cuban Empanada Recipe Lost and Found My mom has been in Miami for the summer. Last week she was telling me about an avocado that she had purchased from the local viandero. Here in California we get the Haas avocados that are small with bumpy dark skin. The ones in Miami are considerably larger. She says this to make the point: “Es el ...
How to Make Cuban Mantecado Ice Cream
How to Make Cuban Mantecado Ice Cream There are so many things that were different to our Cuban sensibilities when we first arrived in the U.S. Mostly in the foods we ate. The bread was different. The meat was different. When someone said 'hamburgers,' we thought, 'frita.' It wasn't the same. "No es igual." "It's not the same." We seemed to say ...
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Recipe
Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Recipe Going Old School It’s November, people. Of course you know what that means: It’s time for the holiday "comelatas" to begin. At our house the main course menus don’t vary much from year to year. But then there are the desserts. Ah, yes. Desserts. Plural. I don’t know of a Cuban anywhere who doesn’t love ...
Spanish Hot Chocolate Recipe
Get REAL. I posted my churro recipe here a couple of days ago. And the people who know stuff about churros also know that it is a sin (maybe not mortal, but certainly venial) to make churros without hot chocolate. Sorry, my faux pas. Of course, we make hot chocolate. Spanish (as in, from Spain) Hot Chocolate. The thick, super-sweet, rich, ...
Cuban Pizza Recipe
Cuban Pizza Recipe When I say I'm making Cuban pizza, no one believes it's a real thing. What makes it Cuban, you ask? Well, it starts, just like all good Cuban food, with a sofrito. A Cuban "sofrito" is the beginning and end of all that is good and holy about Cuban food - onion, garlic, bell pepper perfectly sauteéd in olive oil with a hint of ...
