Daisy also helps the novice Latin cook by explaining the ingredients used in each recipe—their origins, what you can substitute and where you can find them.

Daisy reminisces about traveling around the world with her family and discovering new foods, as well as finding new spins on dishes she’s made for years—the “everyday” recipes that are in this book. To her, eating should be and is a great adventure as well as an education.

We’ve included two popular recipes that we enjoyed mucho. With great flavors and easy cooking instructions, this is a cookbook that’s sure to please.

• Read the full review.
• Make Daisy’s arroz con pollo.
• Make Daisy’s vegetarian stuffed peppers.

Arroz con pollo is a great party
dish. Photo courtesy Simon and Schuster.

Boil, peel and place on a stick. Photo
courtesy SXC.

Place hard-cooked eggs on popsicle sticks and set up a lazy susan with toppings like salsa, flavored salts, hummus, your favorite dips and chopped herbs. It’s creative, healthy fun.

In addition to snack time, serve Eggs On A Stick for breakfast.

• Learn how to make perfect hard-cooked eggs.

It’s easy to bake a batch for Mother’s Day (or any day!). If Mom is a chocolate lover, serve them with chocolate butter.

• Take a look at the recipe for corn muffins and chocolate butter, from Woodhouse Chocolate.
• Go all-chocolate with this recipe for chocolate muffins, from chocolatier Michael Recchiuti.

Both chocolatiers are NIBBLE Top Picks Of The Week.

Bake ‘em, don’t buy ‘em. Photo © Anton Prado | Fotolia.

Bread art: tops in toast. Here, “The Card-
master” by Dante of Providence, Rhode
Island. Make your bread art—at no cost
to you‚—and $1 will be donated to
feed hungry children.

The non-profit Grain Foods Foundation has teamed up with food show host Melissa d’Arabian and Share Our Strength, a non-profit organization hoping to end childhood hunger in America by 2015, to help give hungry children access to nutritious meals.

The Bread Art Project was created in 2009 by the Grain Foods Foundation to help increase awareness of the growing hunger problem in our country. Last year, visitors to BreadArtProject.com created more than 25,000 pieces of Bread Art to raise more than $25,000 for hunger relief. This year, the Foundation hopes to double that amount in its support of Share Our Strength.

How You Can Help @ No Cost!

Now through June 30, 2010, just create a personalized piece of bread art by uploading a favorite drawing or photo, or designing a new one using a digital slice of bread as the canvas. For each piece of bread art created, the Grain Foods Foundation will donate $1 to Share Our Strength.

• What are you waiting for? Head to BreadArtProject.com, check out the great bread art already created, and make your own. In addition to helping a good cause, the gallery of bread art is pretty interesting. 

Margarita mix is the best-selling cocktail mix in America. It’s easy to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Margarita.

But this year, how about a more authentic Mexican drink: Bandera Tequila Shots. “Bandera” means flag in Spanish; the drink comprises three shots in the colors of the Mexican flag: green, white, and red.

You can set up several rows of the three colors of shots on a bar or table, or make them “to order.”

Thanks to Tequila Cazadores for this fun idea.
 
 
RECIPE: BANDERA TEQUILA SHOTS

Ingredients

 
Preparation

Shake and strain each ingredient into separate shot glasses:

1. For the green shot: 1 part blanco tequila. To make the lime shot more green like the flag, add a drop of green food color.

2. For the white shot: 1 part lime juice/1 part blanco tequila.

3. For the red shot: 2 parts blanco tequila, and 1 part tomato juice.

[1] These tequila shots salute the Mexican flag (photo © Tequila Cazadores).

July 4th Tequila Shots: To turn this into Red, White & Blue tequila shots.

Use the red and white directions above. Instead of the green shot, use a drop of blue food color in Step 1.
 
 
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