Mexican cuisine combines traditional indigenous ingredients as well as ingredients imported from Europe:- Corn, beans and chillies are the most well-known Mexican ingredients, and all have been part of the Mexican diet for thousands of years.

Thursday is Chinese New Year and I thought I would give you a couple of recipes for making your own little Chinese banquet. Food symbolism is important for the Chinese New Year and noodles suggest a long life. Today we have a noodle recipe and tomorrow I will give you a bean curd recipe.

Great Recipes to share with Our Friends

A perfect foil to a Sunday Roast

Mediterranean Diet cut risk of dying before 80 years old by 23 percent. But don't stop your healthy ways there! Those who ate healthy and exercised regularly, didn't smoke, and drank alcohol in moderation cut their risk of an early death by 65 percent!" Denise Austin Lubi (Green Bean Meat Stew) Hummus (Chick Pea Dip) Tabbouleh (Parsley salad)

Cuban cuisine is a fusion of Spanish, African and Caribbean cuisines. Cuban recipes share spices and techniques with Spanish and African cooking, with some Caribbean influence in spice and flavor. A small, but noteworthy, Chinese influence can also be accounted for, mainly in the Havana area.Due to historical reasons, the Cuban population was not equally distributed along the island. African slaves were a majority in the sugar cane plantations, but in most of the cities they constituted a minority. Tobacco plantations were inhabited mainly by poor Spanish peasants, mostly from the Canary Islands. The eastern part of the island also received massive quantities of French, Haitian and Caribbean immigrants, mainly during the Haitian Revolution, as well as seasonal workers for the sugar cane harvest, while the western part did not, receiving instead European, mostly Spanish, immigration well into the 1950s. Thus Cuban cuisines developed locally, from the influences and demographics specific to each area.Cuban cuisine has almost nothing in common with Mexican cuisine, which is a surprise for many visitors from the United States or Europe. It also differs from other Latin American cuisines and food traditions of the United States.