Thanks, SS! You have really given this your best, and the Arroz con Pollo looks wonderful.
I made Pollo Guisado (Cuban chicken stew) tonight, and planned to make tostones...but when I peeled them (already had the oil hot) , it turned out they were really great big sweet bananas! (Everything banana-like is called "plantano" here, and I just bought the wrong thing.) Having already made the dipping sauce for the tostones, I quickly fried up some flour tortillas (pretty sure they don't eat those in Cuba, but we loved them on the side, especially Jerry.) The sauce is mayo, sour cream, garlic and chopped yellow chiles (pretty hot). I actually combined a couple of different recipes for the Pollo Guisado, which has green beans, olives, capers, raisins, tomato, onion, garlic, green peppers, cilantro, tomato sauce and chicken stock. The recipe called for a good bit of oregano, and I think it would have been a little better with slightly less. I would also withhold the cilantro for a garnish at the end, because the taste simply cooked out of it. All in all, though, it was very tasty, with many layers of flavor and texture. I will make it again.