Cuban Cooking

Cuban cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, African and Caribbean cuisines, and has absolutely nothing to do with Mexican cuisine.

Food & Wine Magazine ran an article last issue all about Cuban Food, with a lot of great recipes. I had made a similar salad before. And I changed around the black bean recipe to cheat [...]

Steak au Poivre

This dinner was brought about by my addiction to Food Network.  Alton Brown did an entire show (Good Eats) about Beef Tenderloin, and one of the recipes he made was Steak au Poivre.  The meat I bought was a slightly cheaper cut – and honestly, I forget what it was – but it tasted great and [...]

Beef Wellington – gluten free!

Whenever I ask my husband what he wants for dinner for special occasions, he either wants beef wellington or bouillabaisse.  While browsing the web, I found a recipe for individual beef wellingtons that looked doable, and this is a result of that recipe, after many changes. I think the original recipe was an Emeril creation [...]

Beef Stew in Red Wine Sauce

This recipe is one of Jacques Pepin’s, a renowned French chef. I found it in Food and Wine Magazine, and only made a few minor changes. (Here is the original recipe with a pretty picture.) While this hearty stew is inspired by boeuf bourguignon, classically flavored with red Burgundy, Pepin “prepares his version with the [...]