Frita Cubana Recipe Time Traveling I close my eyes and take one bite and suddenly I am unstuck in time … I’m in the heart of the city, which means I get to enjoy something amazing from one of the street vendors. By “the city,” I mean Havana, 1960. By “something amazing,” I mean a Cuban Frita. Small. Sweet, yet spicy. With that crunchy crown ...
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!
Frijoles Negros a la Latina Recipe
Spilling the Beans from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen WARNING: This is a bonafide blog-post hijacking. Mami (that’s Marta, La Cocinera to you) has been sick and you don’t want a sick person doing your cooking, so I (Kikita, hija de Marta) have taken over Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen this week. I promise to keep it simple. Out of all the ...
Flan Cake Recipe
A Match Made in Heaven. Flan + Cake = Flan Cake Recipe I’m always on the look out for fabulous new recipes. The ideal recipe, whether for a main dish or a dessert, is something that is simple to make but looks complicated and is a little breathtaking. It should at the very least inspire ooohs and aaahs. This flan cake recipe is simple, delicious, ...
Elena Ruz Sandwich Recipe With a Twist
A Legend in My Own Mind from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Our family certainly did. And boy did we have leftover turkey! The re-heated turkey meal started to get old really fast. So I suggested sandwiches. Me: “Hey let’s make Elena Ruz’s.” My kids: “Mom, use your words.” (smart alecks!) “What ...
El Flan de La Reina Recipe
Cuban Flan Recipe de La Reina My mom calls herself La Reina del Flan (which would make me the Reigning Princess of Egg Custard, but that’s not important right now). On Christmas Eve, we sometimes have other desserts along with it, but in my big, fat, Cuban family, my mom’s flan is a given. I have a ritual I go through every Christmas with her. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Empanadosas Recipe
Advanced Geometry from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen I made way too much picadillo the other night. It wasn’t my original intention, but three out of the six of us had other things going on and so I was left with an abundance of picadillo, which is not a bad thing, per se. As I usually do with leftover picadillo, I was intending to make some ...
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. ...
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 ...
(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 ...
