Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Ensalada de Aguacate
How we make ensalada de aguacate at Kiki’s in Tampa: avocado, paper-thin onion, lime and olive oil, plus the mistakes that turn a good salad to mush.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Natilla Cubana
Natilla cubana is a stovetop egg custard with cinnamon and lime peel. Our Tampa kitchen shares the tempering method, timings and how to fix it.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Lechón Asado
Lechón asado the Cuban way: garlic and sour orange mojo, a long slow roast, skin that shatters. The Nochebuena centrepiece, from Kiki’s kitchen in Tampa.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Fricasé de Pollo
Fricasé de pollo the Cuban way: chicken braised in sofrito with potatoes, olives, capers and dry white wine. The full method from our Tampa kitchen.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Frita Cubana
The frita cubana is a beef and chorizo patty under a pile of shoestring potatoes. Here is how we make it, from our Cuban kitchen in Tampa, step by step.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Medianoche Sandwich
The Cuban medianoche: roast pork, sweet ham and Swiss pressed on soft egg bread. The bread, the late-night origin and the method from our Tampa kitchen.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Frituras de Malanga
Grated malanga fritters, crisp outside and soft in the middle. The Cuban method, step by step, from the kitchen at Kiki’s Restaurant Lounge in Tampa.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Platanos Maduros
Sweet fried plantains done the Cuban way: ripe fruit, low heat, deep amber edges. The full recipe and the mistakes to avoid, from Kiki’s kitchen in Tampa.
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Kitchen Secrets with Our Cuban Chef – Pollo a la Plancha
Pollo a la plancha the Cuban way: chicken breast pounded thin, marinated in garlic mojo and seared on a flat top. The recipe from our Tampa kitchen.
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Jama, Jamar and How Cubans Talk About Eating
Jama, jamar, arroz con mango, buchito: a short honest glossary of Cuban slang for food, with pronunciation and where each word really comes from.