{"id":1495,"date":"2015-11-02T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T07:25:42","slug":"cookbook-club-the-cuban-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"Cookbook Club: The Cuban Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0848.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0848.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Serious Eats, I hosted our first cookbook club, tackling <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250036089\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1250036089&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=moosaur-20&#038;linkId=DRULDA7BHN3P6QET\">The Cuban Table<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=moosaur-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1250036089\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0841.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0841.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, everything turned out delicious, but the book seemed to be written assuming that its readers had a decent amount of cooking experience and could guess at some of the steps. For example, the guava cheese pastries (pictured above) mentioned making a glaze, but never when to apply the glaze to the pastries. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0842.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0842.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made croquetas de jamon &#8212; which were pretty straight forward and easier than I expected them to be. Will probably make again. Will also cook the filling longer so they&#8217;re easier to shape. Or perhaps add some cornstarch to thicken the batter. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;ll probably cook out of this cookbook again. But I likely won&#8217;t follow the recipes to the letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Serious Eats, I hosted our first cookbook club, tackling The Cuban Table. Overall, everything turned out delicious, but the book seemed to be written assuming that its readers had a decent amount of cooking experience and could guess at some of the steps. For example, the guava cheese pastries (pictured above) mentioned making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[147,146],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cookbook-club","tag-cuban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}