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Re: Hispanic recipes wanted - You want SIMPLE?
Board: Food For Thought
Reply to: #21215 by Amyrica
May 1, 2006 10:50am
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Okay, Warrior Woman here, first generation Cuban American, born in Miami, FL just before the Batista/Castro revolution.

I can give you a BAZILLION easy, medium, hard, and impossible authentic ethnic recipes, but here's one that contains two ingredients that I make that fakes out even authentic hispanics:

Arroz con frijoles negro (black beans and rice)

Go to the grocery store. Buy two cans of GOYA brand BLACK BEAN SOUP. Not the black beans. The BLACK BEAN SOUP. Buy some white rice. Get serving accessories (plastic spoons and some dixie cups). Go home.

Make about two cups of cooked white rice, but add a teaspoon of canola oil and a teaspoon of salt to the cooking water. Set aside, covered, so it doesn't dry out.

Open the two cans of Goya brand black bean SOUP. Plunk the contents into a small sauce pan. Heat until hot.

Dump the rice into an appropriate sized pot-luck GLASS dish. Dump the hot black bean SOUP on top. Mix. Yes, it should be wet.

You are done.

Serve in dixie cups with a spoon.

Want to get so fancy that you can't even stand it? Put a few sprigs of fresh cilantro on it for garnish (in place of the ubiquitous parsley).

Now you are done and you look like Martha Stewart.

Arriba!

Warrior Woman
Re: Hispanic recipes wanted - You want SIMPLE?
Board: Food For Thought
Reply to: #21247 by Warrior Woman
May 1, 2006 11:03am
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I love it! I make my famous Indian Curried Meatballs much the same way.

Buy one bag frozen meatballs. Put in crockpot. Add one 16 oz. jar of Chef Shaiek ( or other) medium hot curry sauce. Refill empty jar with water. Add to crockpot. Heat through and accept compliments.

I brought this to the Finger Lakes gathering last year and it was a big hit!

Lock Wench
Re: Hispanic recipes wanted
Board: Food For Thought
Reply to: #21215 by Amyrica
May 1, 2006 11:15am
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Thank you all! I love flan myself, but the recipe I have isn't simple enough for the time I'll have next week. :-)

Great ideas! I really appreciate it!
Amyrica