I'm driving to Cuba for dinner. Who wants to come?

[shereads]

I feel a Cuban food binge coming on. I won't like myself very much for a day or two afterwards, because Cuban food starts climbing off the plate and wrapping itself around your upper thighs before you can unfold your napkin, but by god I'll be happy an hour from now.

Habana Vieja on Coral Way. A plate of vaca frita ('fried cow') with black beans, white rice and ripe sweet plantains fried until the outside is like a coating of crispy-syrupy caramel, will put us each back about $7.95 and there will be enough food left over for lunch tomorrow. Even more left over, if you have dessert. Have dessert. The flan is excellent, especially with a thimble-full of Cuban coffee blacker than deep space and the consistency of fuel oil.

Be there.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I always loved that moment in the movie "Guys and Dolls" when the gambler Marlon Brando, having finagled a date with the beautiful Salvation Army girl, tells her where they're going for dinner: "Havana."

 

[Subo97]

plantain jones

sweet fried plantain addiction is the only one I haven't sought a cure for.

 

[Guest]

I always loved that moment in the movie "Guys and Dolls" when the gambler Marlon Brando, having finagled a date with the beautiful Salvation Army girl, tells her where they're going for dinner: "Havana."

I love how when she orders milk in the restaurant he tells her they have to add Bacardi as a preservative because of the extremely warm climate.

 

[cloudy]

bring me back some cuban coffee......please?????

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I love how when she orders milk in the restaurant he tells her they have to add Bacardi as a preservative because of the extremely warm climate.

The cad!

 

[Guest]

The cad!

Love Brando, especially in that movie.

I would not have kicked him outta bed for eating crackers.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Love Brando, especially in that movie.

I would not have kicked him outta bed for eating crackers.

I just realized Brando and Elvis each have two versions of themselves.

I of course assume you're referring to the young, non-fat On the Waterfront era Brando.

 

[Guest]

I just realized Brando and Elvis each have two versions of themselves.

I of course assume you're referring to the young, non-fat On the Waterfront era Brando.

Brando is Brando.

But he truly stirred many juices for me in Guys and Dolls. I'm a romantic fool, I'm afraid.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I feel a Cuban food binge coming on. I won't like myself very much for a day or two afterwards, because Cuban food starts climbing off the plate and wrapping itself around your upper thighs before you can unfold your napkin, but by god I'll be happy an hour from now.

Habana Vieja on Coral Way. A plate of vaca frita ('fried cow') with black beans, white rice and ripe sweet plantains fried until the outside is like a coating of crispy-syrupy caramel, will put us each back about $7.95 and there will be enough food left over for lunch tomorrow. Even more left over, if you have dessert. Have dessert. The flan is excellent, especially with a thimble-full of Cuban coffee blacker than deep space and the consistency of fuel oil.

Be there.

Garlicky chicken drenched in so much lemon juic that your mouth will pucker at every bite... Sweet fried plantains to help it down. MMMMmmmm


I love Guys and Dolls, not only for Brando, but- how many times will you see Frank Sinatra drop to his knees?

"Sue me.. Sue me..
Shoot arrows through me...
I love you...."
http://brando.crosscity.com/Brando/Controls/Filmo/Content/Images/GuysNDolls/GnD3.jpg

 

[Guest]

Garlicky chicken drenched in so much lemon juic that your mouth will pucker at every bite... Sweet fried plantains to help it down. MMMMmmmm


I love Guys and Dolls, not only for Brando, but- how many times will you see Frank Sinatra drop to his knees?

"Sue me.. Sue me..
Shoot arrows through me...
I love you...."
http://brando.crosscity.com/Brando/Controls/Filmo/Content/Images/GuysNDolls/GnD3.jpg

I introduced some middle school age kids to this musical not too long ago.

As a class they weren't incredibly impressed with the musical, of course, but all the girls were completely taken with Brando and Sinatra.

One little seventh grade girl turned to me, eyes wide (after hearing Sue Me) and said, "Wow. He really sings good."

Hey - someone has to teach the little children about Frank Sinatra.

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOL

Fried Plantains are good but for a real treat you have to try the fried bananas. Yes the real Bananas, not the Hybrids they sell here in America. I'm talking the Bananas about six inches long and so filled with sugar they make your teeth hurt.

Cuban Food? I live on it.

Cat

 

[Seattle Zack]

I remember when I was a kid back in the seventies and my dad would take me on sales calls down to Coral Gables, and we always stayed at this little hotel called the King Richard Inn. There was a shack/restaurant across the street (Now that I think back on it, how did he lease that property? It was basically a tent/lean-to in a parking lot.)

Run by this big fat Cuban mama, and the food was something else. Red beans and rice, plates just overflowing with food. So spicy you couldn't stop eating it.

 

[Guest]

i am missing out on foods i've never had. well, i have tried fried banana...except how authentic can it be when it's made in connecticut by swamp yankees with not a lick of cuban descent?

how different is cuban food from jamaican food?

 

[Antfarmer77]

Will there be cigars?

 

[feeeriek]

i am missing out on foods i've never had. well, i have tried fried banana...except how authentic can it be when it's made in connecticut by swamp yankees with not a lick of cuban descent?

how different is cuban food from jamaican food?

If made correctly pretty authentic.
I would say is was more like creole than jamaican.
The basic marinade is made from sour orange or if not
available a half/half mixture of lime and orange juice.
It is called a mojo not to be confused with a mojito.
The basic seasoning blend is what is known as a sofrito
it is the cuban version of the trinity and consists of onions,
bell peppers(usually green) and garlic.

Hope that helps

f

 

[Lady_Kit]

Hey Sher, how's life in the jungle?

Food sounds great, will there be music? Sounds that make even pale skinned yankies want to dance?

 

[shereads]

Hey Sher, how's life in the jungle?

Food sounds great, will there be music? Sounds that make even pale skinned yankies want to dance?

Only canned music at Habana Vieja. Whadya want for $7.95?

Before anyone asks, No. Fried Cow is not a reduced fat, low salt food.

 

[cloudy]

Only canned music at Habana Vieja. Whadya want for $7.95?

Before anyone asks, No. Fried Cow is not a reduced fat, low salt food.

did you remember my coffee?

 

[shereads]

how different is cuban food from jamaican food?

My Jamaican food experience is limited to Jerk Chicken, Peas-and-Rice, and an alcohol bomb called "Jamaican Fruitcake," or Black Cake. But here's what I think I know:

Cuban and Jamaican both use a lot of cheap-but-filling ingredients like rice and beans - staples readily available to island-bound cooks in hot climates. Jamaican meats and stews tend to be spicy-hot; Cuban uses less pepper and more garlic and lemon.

Vaca Frita, my favorite beef dish, seems like one of those recipes for leftovers that Americans use to get rid of excess turkey after T-Day. Imagine some leftover pot roast, placed in a hot skillet with a lot of garlic and salt, and an anvil.

You get this pancake-thin beef object that's dark and crispy on the outside, juicy underneath, and so tender it falls apart from the impact of the lime juice you squeeze on it before you dive in. It's served with a scattering of carmelized onions.

It was great. I won't want it again for about two years.

 

[shereads]

did you remember my coffee?

I did. It escaped and is re-roofing my neighbors' house.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

When I die, I'm going to Cuba. Not that I want to go to Cuba.

 

[shereads]

If made correctly pretty authentic.
I would say is was more like creole than jamaican.
The basic marinade is made from sour orange or if not
available a half/half mixture of lime and orange juice.
It is called a mojo not to be confused with a mojito.
The basic seasoning blend is what is known as a sofrito
it is the cuban version of the trinity and consists of onions,
bell peppers(usually green) and garlic.

Hope that helps

f

Oh yeah! The mojo-marinated pork roasts that are popular as Cuban picnic food have the most wickedly mouth-watering smell in the world. If you aren't invited to the picnic, it's sheer torture to go anywhere near a Miami park with a barbecue grill on a weekend or holiday. Food that smells that good should be illegal.

 

[shereads]

When I die, I'm going to Cuba. Not that I want to go to Cuba.

It's mandatory?

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

I signed something a few years ago, and didn't read it properly.