Dominican-American recipies

Interesting idea for a thread!  Thanks for starting it.  I won't have much to say about cooking as I hate to cook......lol

Boy what to say. Most Dominicans know only three spices:
sugar (and more sugar)
Salt (and more salt)
Sazon which is like a seasoned SALT
Chicken bullion cube which has more salt.

So you have to get out of the Dominican "box" to cook.
We grow our own Rosemary, thyme, cilantro, basal, lemon grass, dill weed and use this stuff a lot.

Meats (especially local meats) need to be slow cooked if you don't want to spend hours chewing. That is why Sancocho is so good as well as the local Goat stew (with some spice help)

Bob K

Took a break from Dominican cuisine and made shrimp-stuffed avocados topped with fresh homemade mayonnaise. Accompanied by a glass of Ramon Roqueta chardonnay. Well, three glasses actually.
The mayonnaise is so easy to make, 10 minutes of whisking egg yolks, corn oil, dry mustard. sugar, lemon and salt. Better, and more economical, than the retail kind. Google has dozens of recipies.
  Those in my Dominican household liked the mayo, but passed on the shrimp because the pre-cooked shrimp wasn´t cooked again. The practice here is that if it´s worth cooking, it´s better over-cooked. Don´t get me started on con-con.

Funny our housekeeper was surprised that I actually enjoy a bit of con-con.

Bob K

What is concon Bob? Just curious.

I is the burnt rice on the sides of the  pot that they cook, or should I say overcook, their rice in. It is rather tasty but very crunchy

Bob K

I also am interested in looking into Dominican cooking.  I ve been cooking chicken and steak on the grill since I was a kid with my dad.  I like making collard greens, sweet potato mashed, shrimp and grits.  I was thinking of looking up a San cocho recipe

facebook.com/dominicancookbook

i like the recipes on facebook site. i have tried to make several. of course my wife makes them. i just talk and drink.

LOL  we could be twins except I have no wife.... so someone has to cook for me.

I like the posts you are making,  I hope you will continue to help us here on these forums!

hahahaha

Here is a good site for local recipes
http://dominicancooking.us5.list-manage … cribe/post

Bob K

LINK DID NOT WORK BOB

dominicancooking.com has a lot of great Dominican recipes, and usually have some fun info about the dishes as well. They even have (or at least used to) a for where you can ask about the recipes if you have any problems cooking them!

Try http://www.dominicancooking.com/index.htm if that does not work try Googling Aunt Clara's Cooking Dominican REpublic

Bob k

http://www.dominicancooking.com/

link to home page. that one did not work this one does

i will pick a few out for my wife to cook. jajaja Maybe i will try to cook them as it may offend my bride if I ask her to cook them.

Try http://www.dominicancooking.com/index.htm and see if that works.  If not google Aunt Clara's cooking Dominican republic

Bob K