Traditional Cuban Food Kitchen

Cuban cuisine beans blacks

In 2007 my family was finally united after a long separation. How older women have cooked traditional Cuban food. Imagine my surprise when my grandchildren of the woman, "said You know that a lot of your recipes are very popular in Canada?"

Naturally I was very surprised because I had never visited Canada. She goes on to say that my nephew had one of my recipes, and that in turn gave the recipes for his mother, who passed on the recipes for her family and friends.

When I remember to this day. I decided, why not share some of my recipes with my friends Squidoo.

My first recipe is for Cuban style Black Beans.

What you need:

1 bag dried beans blacks
1 large onion
1 green pepper
2 cloves garlic
Olive oil
Salt & Pepper Optional
1 teaspoon sugar

Soak dried beans overnight or at least a few hoursKitchen>.
Wash and rinse the beans, drain soaking water.

Start Boil the beans with 4 cups water over high heat until it begins to boil, reduce heat to med.

Cook the beans for about 45 minutes or until soft.

Cut or chop the onion and green pepper and garlic.

Saute onions, garlic and peppers with 2 tablespoons olive oil

Season with salt and pepper. (Beans traditional blacks are a bit 'heavy on black pepper)

MyRecipes fathers has a teaspoon of white sugar in the mix (optional)

After the first 45 minutes of cooking, the water must be reduced and the beans should be soft baked onions, peppers, garlic, salt and pepper paste.

Cook over med low for about 25-30 minutes and the beans should be ready blacks.

Suggestions:
When you start to cook beans blacks can be found that the broth has thickened, there are two ways to solve this problem.

Add to04:01 cup of instant mashed potatoes and beans and stir until thickened, or use a tablespoon of cornstarch, one of these methods should do the trick well. As a soup, add the beans blacks place in a bowl and a page of the following: finely chopped onion or shallot, olive oil and offer more (and Virgin cold pressed is best), some gourmet restaurant and a side sour cream. beans to serve blacks.

It can also give blacks the mashed beans in a blender and serve with the top of this pageCourts.

The traditional way to serve blacks beans, Cuban style is to serve the beans with a side of white rice or white rice.

A traditional meal consists of Cuban blacks beans, rice, beef, chicken or pork. The other side to cook traditional dishes are fried.
tostones or yuca.

Until we meet again with another of my recipes. Enjoy your meal.

Five tips for a perfect food steaming

I like to cook and enjoy eating. Most people think food is tasty and undamped boring, but I like to steam my food and the kitchen will surprise you that I have no cooking oil in mine. The specialty of vapors is refreshing, smokeless (easy to clean the kitchen) and the most important part is the original flavor of the food stored.

one is steaming or frying without frying, stir, and requires no oil. SoIngredients should be fresh for steaming. Apart from the original sweetness of steamed food is preserved because the food does not come into contact with water, with plenty. There are four basic types of smoke are pure steam, vapor-coated, braising and boiling dry steam.

Pure steam - This is the easiest way to steaming. marinade ingredients with the seasoning and transfer to the wok and steam.

Coat steaming - Cut foods into small piecesCoat, with special flour (corn flour) and a mode of transportation in the wok and steam.

Steam Cleaning - Blanch ingredients with boiling water and remove from the boiling water. Drain water and add spices. Ingredients (a dish) and then transferred to the wok with a clean cloth and steam.

Steamed - Cook the ingredients of soft or pureed and transfer to the wok and steam.

Now we see the five easy tips from food steaming -

First Placeingredients in the wok and only when the water begins to boil.
According Keep enough water to steam, and preferably keep the water one inch below the pot smoking.
Third Go to boil lower the heat when the water begins to take steam in a wok.
Fourth Avoiding dripping water drops on food when you lift the lid.
Lift the lid of the fifth heat, allow the waste heat steam briefly ingredients.

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

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Bon appetit! - D. J. Nardi - Washington, DC
When I used to to Benihana's Japanese restaurant, I used to think those big grills with all of that fire was just for show. Apparently not. According to Richard Wrangham, cooking doesn't just make raw meat taste better, but also has enabled many of the most important advances in human evolution.

There are several key points in Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. First, cooking food softens it, enabling humans to spend less time chewing and digesting food - and thus more time pursuing other activities. Second, less difficulty digesting food means the human body can dedicate less energy to the gut and more to brains (human brains are abnormally large, and human guts abnormally small). Finally, cooking had social impacts that reduced the time for gathering food, leading to a division of labor and gender inequality.

I found Wrangham's arguments fascinating, but never felt like he "proved" his hypothesis. Much of his evidence is anecdotal. The one thing I still didn't understand is whether he thought cooking or the biological changes in humans evolved first (the chicken and egg problem). I suspect the former, but the exact sequence is unclear. However, the thesis seems to suggest that cooking led to larger brains. This implies that humanity mastered fire before evolving human brains. If this is true, then why have other animals not harness fire?

Some of these sequencing issues left me a bit uncertain about whether cooking really was THE trait that made us human. Nonetheless, the issues discussed in Catching Fire are fascinating and will change the way you look at dinner.

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