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     In a few minutes, I’ll be leaving for the airport for our annual Christmas family trip, albeit a few short. For the first time, Jerry and Erik will not be traveling with our family for our Christmas trip, because of business obligations (and Erik is interviewing at several medical schools!).  Our trip will take us to Buenos Aires in Argentina, and we are all very excited, as we are meeting our good friends, Paul and Paula Scharff, who are there already (Paula’s family lives in Buenos Aires), but before I go, I’d like to take a few minutes to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with health, happiness,  and prosperity. I will be sure to sample a lot of great food, and take a million pictures to share with you when I get back.  Until then, Feliz Navidad and Happy New Year!

P.S. Don’t forget to tune in to “All Things Considered” on Christmas Day on your NPR station!

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Merry Christmas y ¡Feliz Navidad!

LA PARRANDA, an original radio play by Esmeralda Santiago and Daisy Martinez, will premiere during the second half hour of NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Christmas Day, December 25.

To find your local station visit: http://www.npr.org/stations/

LA PARRANDA is about two sisters, one in Puerto Rico, the other in New York, whose relationship evolves over a twenty-five year period through phone calls on Christmas Day. The play is performed by Esmeralda Santiago and Daisy Martinez and features historical as well as contemporary Puerto Rican holiday music and traditions.

After broadcast, the radio play can be heard and/or downloaded from npr.org/podcast

Tell your friends!

Please help make LA PARRANDA the most downloaded program ever, on NPR!

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In this month’s newsletter for DaisyMartinez.com, I offer an exclusive recipe that is our own Ode to Spring. It is a poached artichoke heart that is stuffed with a ragu of morels, bacon, shallots, peas and cream and it will serve as our first course for our Spring holiday dinner. The complete recipe with amounts and such is on the site as the April homepage, so stop by a take a look.

We’re going to start out with the ingredients: artichokes, slab bacon, morels (I’ve used dry here, but definately use fresh if you have them available…just omit the soaking step), shallots, peas, cognac, heavy cream and fresh parsley.

Render the diced bacon in a bit of water to render the fat. Start at high heat until it boils, then lower the heat to low, to manage the browning until golden.

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…And set your TiVos!! I’ll be appearing on the Wednesday March 28 episode of the Rachael Ray Show.

http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/?q=tvshow/week/2007-03-28

Make sure y’all write/email in and let them know all about the Daisy “love”..hehehe

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We wanted to let you know that daiz has found a special offer at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and wanted to be sure that it got passed on to you.

To see this special offer, click the link below, or copy and paste this link into your Web browser’s address line:

http://www.wyndham.com/specialoffers/special_offers/details/ordli_foodu.wnt

Also, for a bonus recipe by Daisy from Wyndham Food University, Click Here (Adobe Acrobat Reader Required)

Daisy will be coming soon to the following Wyndham locations: Wyndham Orange County-Costa Mesa, California; Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square- Cleveland, Ohio; The Tremont House-Galveston, Texas

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Be sure to check out DaisyMartinez.com for great Puerto Rican holiday recipes from Daisy!

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If you missed it, we just posted all new recipes on DaisyMartinez.com for Thanksgiving. Buen Provecho!

Last month’s recipes can be found here (click)

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