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    Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors!: Good Food, Good Wine, Good Times, and Good Friends—The Best Life Has to Offer
    Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors!: Good Food, Good Wine, Good Times, and Good Friends—The Best Life Has to Offer
    Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors!: Good Food, Good Wine, Good Times, and Good Friends—The Best Life Has to Offer
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    Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors!: Good Food, Good Wine, Good Times, and Good Friends—The Best Life Has to Offer

    By Arlen M. Castillo and Lazaro J. Mur

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    Julio Fuentes, President of the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce says Each recipe is an explosion of fl avors, a culinary fireworks display.

    Lorena Castillo, Chairwoman of the Coalition of Hispanic Instructors in Support of Parental Awareness (CHISPA) says, This book is a must read and gives it an A+.

    Chef Denis Hernandez of Canada says, If you really want to give your taste buds a culinary delight, try any recipe in this book.

    For those ready to expand their palate and broaden their culinary horizons, Now Youre Cooking with Latin Flavors! shares one familys collection of simple and inexpensive recipes sure to help both novice and experienced cooks create a lifetime of memories and mouth-watering cuisine in the kitchen.

    Husband-and-wife team Arlen Castillo and Laz Mur combine their love of Latin food with colorful ingredients and zesty spices in order to provide food aficionados with the basic tools needed to cook a comforting meal without breaking the family budget and relying on fast food outlets for dinner every night. From a bowl of hearty homemade chicken soup served with a thick slice of warm Cuban bread to fried green bananas with Carne Asada to tequila three-lime pie, Castillo and Mur share easy-to-make recipes without a lot of complicated ingredients that encourage families to not be afraid to be creative in the kitchen and remember that cooking is an art rather than an exact science.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 11, 2011
    ISBN9781450260800
    Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors!: Good Food, Good Wine, Good Times, and Good Friends—The Best Life Has to Offer
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    Arlen M. Castillo

    Arlen M. Castillo was born in Nicaragua and lived in Costa Rica for a number of years before moving with her family to the United States. A classically trained clarinet player, self-educated paralegal, and food enthusiast, Arlen is the visionary and creator of the unique Handy Dandy Apron. Lazaro (“Laz”) Mur was born in Havana, Cuba. He earned his BA from Florida International University and his JD and LLM degrees from the University of Miami. He is currently an international tax attorney practicing in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he lives with his wife, Arlen, and their bulldog, Lucy.

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      Now You’Re Cooking with Latin Flavors! - Arlen M. Castillo

      Contents

      Introduction

      1

      From Boiling Water to Special Recipes

      2

      Eggs and Omelets

      3

      Soups and Stews

      4

      Beans and Rice

      5

      Chicken and Turkey

      6

      Meat, Pork, and Lamb

      7

      Seafood

      8

      Pastas

      9

      Side Dishes

      10

      Sandwiches

      11

      Desserts

      12

      Traditional Drinks

      13

      Cooking with Chocolate

      A Personal Note from the Authors

      About the Authors

      Introduction

      If you can learn how to boil water, you can cook!

      More than a mere collection of recipes, this book is a collection of childhood memories of mouth-watering flavors, outstanding aromas, and good times around the kitchen.

      Laz’s grandmother, Maria never learned how to read or write, but wow, could she cook. And so can you!

      This book takes you from the simple steps for boiling water to making our totally unique Majarete Cheesecake and Chocolate Rum Pork Ribs.

      During these economic times, our Now You’re Cooking with Latin Flavors! cookbook is a great way to enjoy a phenomenal home-cooked meal full of wonderful, mouth-watering Latin flavors without breaking the family budget, while breaking free from the fast-food and takeout habit.

      Fast food is an epidemic in America. We work long hours. The pace is fast. And when we get hungry, we often hop in our cars and head to the nearest fast-food drive-thru or order takeout. Yet, in less time and for the same price as a flat soft drink, greasy burger, and stale fries, you could be feasting like royalty.

      When Laz’s son, Matthew, told him he was going to college to become a movie director, Laz thought, Oh well, at least I’ll give him some basic tools to survive his five-year college vacation—the family car, his personal computer, and plenty of fatherly advice. But soon, Laz learned that his son was missing one basic tool: food survival.

      As a theater major, he was working, rehearsing, and studying fourteen to sixteen hours a day. His meals consisted of fast food and takeout. The fast-food diet was catching up with him fast.

      One day Matthew was feeling down and asked Arlen and Laz to write him a simple recipe for chicken soup. The next thing we knew, he was cooking; but more importantly, he was enjoying it. He was eating better, feeling healthier, and saving money. Imagine that, a college student saving money, eating better, and feeling healthier!

      That is how this labor of love came about and why the goal of this book is to provide you with the basic tools to break free of the fast-food habit.

      This book will help you expand your palate and broaden your culinary horizons with simple, inexpensive, and easy-to-make comfort foods full of Latin flavors that will spice up any day of your life with our very own jungle spice blend (this is a combination of spices Arlen and I put together that we call: Jungle Spice). And for those special romantic occasions, we even share with you how to cook with

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