DAY Recipe

INGREDIENTS

2 cups fresh strawberries , hulled and sliced
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup Grand Marnier
1/4 cup Amaretto
1 cup ice, crushed
1 tablespoon lemon juice

DIRECTIONS

Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

If too thick, add milk or cream while blending until desired consistency is reached.

Serve in oversized martini glass with a strawberry slice as a garnish.

Cooking chicken as described in the recipe below results in really crisp, almost transparent skin (like that on Peking duck) and moist flesh.

Serves 4.

INGREDIENTS
two 2 1/2-pound chickens, halved

2 cups traditional achiote recado

accompaniments

charred habanero salsa

rajas

authentic guacamole

corn tortillas
DIRECTIONS
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Any holiday-motif cookie cutter can be used to make these. If you don’t have small cookie cutters (about one inch in diameter) to cut out the centers, use the wide end of a small pastry-bag tip instead. The cookies look striking in a glass canister dressed up with a bright red ribbon.

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