Two years, two kids, and everything made from scratch in Havana, Cuba -- where rum is aplenty but everything else is not! Follow my adventures feeding my family...
I'd planned to keep it fun and simple, but certain things kept on getting in the way. Like a guest list that included potentially 150 people and the task of making an Olaf piñata from scratch ...
Over the weekend, my husband and I took our kids to look for Chinese New Year in Havana's Barrio Chino, the least Chinese Chinatown I have ever visited.
The contents of our cart and my daughter's smorgasbord of samples got a little unwieldy as we weaved our way through Costco. Visits to the store have become one of our favorite American vacation pastimes since we moved to Cuba.
Fried savory plantains, the Cuban equivalent of French fries: if you eat them hot, straight out of the fryer, seasoned with a little garlic and salt, you might forget that French fries even exist.