This is how we made the gravy in advance for the clan at Thanksgiving. Since I was going to be roasting turkeys in La Caja China, there would not be any drippings for use in the gravy, so we made it all in advance to reduce the stress of the big day. This was easy Read More …
This is an adaptation of a recipe from the Wall Street Journal for a Puerto Rican variation on roast turkey. Essentially, it is the same marinade as would be used in Puerto Rico for lechon (roast pig). I roasted a pavochon for Thanksgiving in the Cuban roasting box (La Caja China) along with two plain Read More …
For the third year in a row, we had a large group of relatives over for Thanksgiving, and I cooked turkeys in La Caja China, a Cuban-American outdoor cooker which was invented as a pig roaster for Lechon. (A Cuban-American co-worker told me that Cuban slang is to refer to something clever as being Chinese. Read More …