1/10 T. Florence cooked a fresh shoulder ham (pernil), pidgeon peas with rice and sweet plantain bananas. Where did he learned that we squirt lemon juice on sweet bananas or on rice. Never! In the puertorrican cuisine, the lemon is GENERALLY used after things are cooked. You use the peel of lemon on hot cereals or deserts. You squirt juice on fish. Not on rice. BuI believe that this is Tyler's touch. Also, the skin of the pork becomes crispier if at the end of cooking the meat you raise the heat of the oven, squirst a little water on the skin and watch it crisp! Add a little waterto the bananas to make a syrop with the sugar and butter. A stick of cinnamon or some cinn.powder will give them a delicious taste. I'm happy you explained well the sofrito use. It's the base to all our stews and rice. What we use as our "trinity". Also, fry some cut-up salted ham in the oil to start the sofrito base. Yumm!
