Puerto Rican Cookery is the cookbook that I will be using during my little journey through the Puertorican kitchen. I'm going to try to cook every single recipe I can, but I'm going to doctor up the recipes a little bit to try and make them healthier. Although, I do think that when one uses the right ingredients (whole, organic and fresh), caribbean cooking can be very healthy. The problem arises when one starts to take shortcuts and adds processed foods full of sodium and fat.
Let me warn you, the recipes in this book are NO joke...Puertorican cooking is about as gourmet as you can get. The timing, the temperature, the flavor ALL need to be perfect. It takes a lifetime to perfect Puertorican cooking, and even though I can make white rice with the rest of them, I am definitely a novice compared to my grandmothers, my aunts and my lovely Mami Nilda (more about her later).
Tomorrow is my official first day of trying a recipe. I'm going to try a Caribbean soup called Sancocho. It is a flavorful soup with squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes, ñame, yautia (both root vegetables) and green and ripe plantains. My mouth is watering already. I'll take pics and let you know how it goes.
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