HAVANA (AP) â If you donât have potato, use malanga root. If you canât find zucchini, replace it with cucumber. Canât find the ingredients you want? No problem: Yuliet Colón will help you whip up a dessert using the eggs you ran across, swap pork for the ground chicken in that recipe, even peanuts for beans in your Cuban-style rice. Sheâs among a number of Cubans who, with more ingenuity than resources, help their compatriots cope with shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic with Facebook posts of culinary creations designed around what theyâre actually likely to find at the market or with government rations.