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This my wife's favorite seafood dish. We start with frozen swordfish steaks from the supermarket. Defrost them and season them with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Saute them in butter until properly cooked. The butter will blacken the fish. While they are cooking make a sauce of cream, white...

Hollandaise sauce is one of the great gifts the French have given us. It is wonderful on some veggies such as asparagus and, of course, tops the famed eggs benedict. It takes a while to make Hollandaise the classic way they teach in culinary school with the double boiler and clarified butter...

In Spanish this means Christians and Moors to describe the dark black beans and white rice. Not a very appropriate name for the 21st century so we can just call it frijoles negros which means black beans in Spanish. That is what my mother always called it. This dish is Cuban peasant food that...

There is no category for custards and pudding so I put this here. Flan is a well known Spanish custard with a caramelized sugar topping. During WWII in Cuba milk was hard to come by so some enterprising person developed a flan made with canned milk. It is so good I prefer it to the more...

I was raised in Cuba as a child and have always enjoyed my grandmother's traditional arroz con pollo. The recipe is in my head and normally done by feel but I'll do my best to nail it down here. The Spanish or Latino triad is called sofrito and is composed of onion, bell pepper (or pimiento)...

hello. I'm a cutlery merchant who loves to cook. I have a couple of years of culinary school and was a cooking instructor at one point and once operated a forum site similar to this one called foodieforums.com. I retired from that. The only cooking I do anymore is just for me and my wife...