Understated and ridiculously comforting, mofongo is a delicious Puerto Rican dish ... (plantains, pork cracklings, and garlic) seem straightforward on their own, yet when fried and mashed together ...
Pasteles, Casiano explained, are pork-filled pastries ... That includes Puerto Rican yucca fries, empanadas, pastelillos, alcapurrias and fried codfish. Casiano’s café is a funky little place.