A bowl of creamy chicken tortilla soup is one of those comfort soups that you can eat on the couch while watching a movie. When I used to work at Houston’s Restaurant, they would only have two soups that I would eat prior to my shift, a clam chowder and the creamy chicken tortilla soup. […]
Since moving to New York I have broadened my horizons to trying new foods. Never in my life had I tried indian food prior to moving up here. I wouldn’t say Cuban, especially the males, are a big fan of trying foriegn cuisines. I mainly grew up eating Cuban and American food in my household. […]
Frijoles colorados are my all-time favorite type of beans. Whenever I head back down to Miami to visit family one of the main things I look forward to is going to my grandmother’s house to have some of her frijoles colorados. These are not your typical beans, frijoles colorados are usually cooked with different meats, like […]
Sopa de platano (plantain soup), is one of my mom’s specialties. She always makes it with ropa vieja (recipe in blog) because she uses the liquid that the beef is pressure cooked in to make the soup. I was craving it all winter and decided to make it after cooking ropa vieja a few nights […]
When I think of papa rellenas, it takes me back to 2006 during hurricane season. I remember we were about to get hit by a hurricane in South Florida and my siblings and I were helping my dad put up shutters right before the storm hit. It brings me back to this day because this was the first […]
