Arroz Imperial Recipe Written on September 11, 2008 I tend to feel extremely patriotic on this date in history, hence the following story and recipe. Years ago, my big, fat, Cuban family moved to a sleepy peanut-butter-and-jelly neighborhood in Anaheim, California. Our house was at the end of a cul-de-sac where the other families had been living ...
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!
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 ...
Sopa de Platano de Timbiriche Recipe
Making a Memory from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen My uncle, who’s here in the states visiting from Cuba, is back in Miami now. What was really fun about having him here was that he was so willing to put on an apron and cook with me. “Let’s try this.” “Let’s add that.” “You know what would be really great?” I was loving it. Some of my very ...
Oven-Baked Spanish Tortilla Recipe
When is a Tortilla NOT a Tortilla? from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen Every now and then I get a craving for something that appears unusual to my kids but was just part of a regularly scheduled menu item in my Cuban American household when I was growing up. And I realize just a beat too late that they haven’t had the same upbringing that I have, ...
