Comments on: Cuba Nostalgia – from Marta’s Cuban American Kitchen

By: Cuando sali de Cuba… | Tiki Tiki Blog

Cuando sali de Cuba… | Tiki Tiki Blog — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:10:03 +0000

[...] by that I’m not aware of a longing for the land of my birth. I fill it with the music and the food, and of course, I scrapbook, and I write. I am happy to be connected to an amazing Cuban community [...]

By: mamey

mamey — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:59:13 +0000

Bitter orange is called 'naranja agria' in Spanish. It is known as 'Seville orange.' I know that in the United States it is grown in Florida and California. You can buy bottled stuff, but there's nothing like fresh Seville oranges to marinade pork, chicken, beef, lamb, rabbit, goat, duck, turkey, and probably any other meat you might care to cook. Sometimes people substitute it with regular oranges mixed with lemons.

By: susan

susan — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:58:18 +0000

This looks SO good but what is bitter orange and where might I find it?

By: mamey

mamey — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:09:25 +0000

Marta: Towards the end, even if you have used wine, a tasty version involves pouring some beer (6 to 8 ounces) on the semi-finished product as the evaporated liquid blends in very well with the rice and the other ingredients. Sometimes I also sautee some ham or chorizo, as my mother use to do in Havana, to give the chicken a different kick (although of course she use to complain that when she cooked arroz con pollo in Havana anybody within a two block radius could smell it, whereas here in the USA the chickens had neither olor ni sabor).