Saturday, June 14, 2008

In The Beginning...

I decided to start this blog as a way to keep track of the things I am currently working on and researching in the food world. I also would like to have a place for all my foodie friends to share their stories and recipes as well.

So that aside, I love to cook. I do some personal chef work and cater some events. I love exploring different cuisine and ethnic foods as well. I usually will spend a couple months on one thing ( i.e. Italian, Portuguese, Thai) until I get the basics down. Everything is a learning experience, and you can never learn it all, but what fun. The past month I have been baking bread or all sorts, artisan loaves, sourdough, beer bread and such. I do have my own living starter that is now 1 month old and doing very well, and makes amazing loaves. Today was Cuban bread. Traditional all the way including the palmetto leaf to get that wonderful split down the middle. Once I get it fully tweaked I will post the recipe.

Then there was the sandwich. To make the bread and then use that to make the true Cuban sandwich was such a amazing thing. Well, I hope you all like the photos and if anyone ever has any questions about any posts, please let me know.
Robert


3 comments:

Marcus said...

What an amazing coincidence! I have been slowly collecting cookbooks on bread for a few months! I want to bake bread, and have a starter! Yours looks amazing. I do love a cuban sandwich......

Please be sure to look at my recipe blog. I have tried to add some very interesting links to it as well.

http://egregiousblunders2.blogspot.com/

knitforknot said...

The only question I have so far is how much/how long to get one of those to my house! Let me know if you ever need a taste-tester in Mississippi. :)

Congrats to you & Shannon. I love reading the updates.

Take care.

Auntbeast said...

The Cuban Sandwich is so iconic, especially here, however, a sandwich you don't hear much about that is very popular in Miami is a Media Noche. I know that back in the day, I preferred them over the standard Cuban, now I couldn't tell you the difference between them.

Thanks for the Cuban bread recipe, when Godzilla goes down for a nap, I'll get to work.