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"  Yael Cypers, junior in Food Studies at New York University and Kitchen Appliances intern has some recommendations for a Mexican fiesta. Cinco de Mayo is around the corner and no fiesta&amp;#039;s complete without three beloved Mexican staples: tortillas, guacamole, and frozen margaritas!   Here at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, we tested out three kitchen gadgets to help make your Cinco de Mayo muy delicioso. You can give your guacamole some extra zest by grinding it by hand with a mortar and pestle. The IMUSA Lava Rock Molcajete ($60) is as authentic as it gets if you want to go the extra mile with your guacamole. And when you&amp;#039;re not making guac, you can use it to grind spices and herbs as well as prepare salsa. With the Molcajete you get instructions on how to season the lava rock so that everything that&amp;#039;s made in it has a unique taste. I&amp;#039;m not sure if it&amp;#039;s what gave our guacamole delicious flavor but the rough surface of the rock made it easy to mash the ingredients and created a distinctive texture. We used a recipe from a new cookbook, Muy Bueno, ($15) written by Evangelina Soza and her daughters Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack and Veronica Gonzalez-Smith to celebrate Soza&amp;#039;s mother&amp;#039;s legendary Mexican recipes. Packed full of recipes and helpful tips for cooking Mexican food, it includes a glossary of different types of chiles. One of the many recipes in the book is a &amp;quot;Tres Leches Cake&amp;quot; calling for coconut milk; it&amp;#039;s refreshing and tasty and would make a great Cinco de Mayo dessert.    Pair the Soza ladies&amp;#039; guacamole recipe with chips or load it onto your favorite tacos or fajitas -- but not before warming the tortillas. To heat up your tortillas ahead of time, I recommend the IMUSA Cloth Tortilla Warmer ($10). You place your tortillas inside this tortilla warmer and throw it into the microwave for one minute. It keeps the tortillas soft and toasty for an hour and brightens the table. Last but certainly not least, after pigging out on the spicy guacamole, (which you will in large quantities because it&amp;#039;s that delicious) you&amp;#039;ll need an icy cold margarita to cool you down. If the crowd&amp;#039;s coming over, whip up our recipe for Pomegranate Margaritas. Celebrating the holiday solo?   Make individual-sized frozen cocktail without the mess of a blender! The Zoku Slush and Shake Maker ($20) chills a drink into a slush in 7 minutes. Simply place your ingredients inside the frozen inner core (that has been prefrozen for 8 hours) -- we used fresh strawberry puree, sugar and lime juice. As the ingredients start to freeze, continue to stir your drink until it turns into a frozen treat. Keep it alcohol-free or pour in some tequila and triple sec once the drink has frozen. No matter with whom you&amp;#039;re celebrating or where, these recipes and tools will help make the ultimate Cinco de Mayo celebration.  To see more tools for Cinco de Mayo, check out Gracie Rizzo&amp;#039;s blog post on for five tools for Cinco de Mayo. Want to learn how we put consumer products to the test and keep you safe? Sign up for a tour of the famous Good Housekeeping Research Institute. If you visit, be sure to say hello when you come by the Kitchen Appliances &amp;amp;amp; Technology Lab. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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