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MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Enjoy Cinco de Mayo recipes, specials
CORRINE DORRIAN entertain@kansan.com
Looking for places around Lawrence to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Are you hosting your own get together? The food and drinks are always an important factor when
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it comes to Cinco de Mayo festivities. Here are some great traditional recipes from allrecipes.com to enjoy with your friends, as well as some great food and drink specials going on at local Mexican restaurants.
Difficulty: 5
Flan
1/2 cup white sugar
2 cups milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 egg yolks, beaten
3/8 cup white sugar
2. In a heavy bottomed saucepan over medium heat, melt 1/2 cup sugar until golden. Carefully pour hot sugar evenly into four oven-proof ramekins or custard cups, tilting cups to coat bottoms evenly.
3. In another saucepan, bring milk just to boiling over medium heat. Stir hot milk into beaten eggs and egg yolks a little at a time until well combined. Stir in remaining sugar. Pour milk mixture evenly into ramekins.
4. Line a roasting pan with a damp kitchen towel. Place ramkins on towel inside roasting pan and place roasting pan on oven rack. Fill roasting pan with boiling water to reach halfway up the sides of the ramkins.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
5. Bake for 40 minutes, until set. Let cool, remove from ramekin, invert and serve.
Fabulous Wet Burritos
Difficulty: 3
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 (4.5-ounce) can diced green chile peppers
1 (16-ounce) can refried beans
1 (15-ounce) can chili without beans
1 (10-ounce) can enchilada sauce
1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed tomato soup
6 (12-inch) flour tortillas, warmed
2 cups shredded lettuce
1 cup chopped tomatoes
2 cups shredded Mexican blend cheese
added green onions
1. Crumble ground beef into a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until evenly browned. Add onion and cook until translucent. Drain grease, and season with garlic, cumin, salt and pepper. Stir in the green chilies and refried beans until well blended. Turn off heat, but keep warm.
2. In a saucepan, combine the chili without beans, tomato soup and enchilada sauce. Mix well; cook over medium heat until heated through. Turn off heat, but keep warm.
3. Place a warmed tortilla on a plate, and spoon a generous 1/2 cup of the ground beef mixture onto the center. Top with lettuce and tomato to your liking. Roll up tortilla over the filling. Spoon a generous amount of the sauce over the top, and sprinkle with cheese and green onions. Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds, or until cheese is melted. Repeat with remaining tortillas.
Difficulty: 1
Traditional Mexican Guacamole
2 avocados, peeled and pitted
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced (optional)
Salt and ground black pepper to taste
2 avocados, peeled and pitted
1. Mash avocados in a bowl until creamy.
2. Mix tomatoes, onion, cilantro, lemon juice and jalapeno pepper into mashed avocado until well combined; season with salt and black pepper.
La Tropicana:
434 Locust St.
- Pork tamales and pork verde burritos — $10.50
- Tequila shots — $3 to $5
Food/Drink Specials
El Matador Cafe:
446 Locust St.
— Buffet for $10 (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
Cielito Lindo Mexican Restaurant:
815 New Hampshire St.
$12.99 Margarita pitchers — 24 oz. Corona — $6 Plus, live Mariachi Band
La Parrilla:
724 Mass St.
— $2 lime margaritas
— $5 grande margarita
— $12 lime margarita pitchers
— $2.50 beers (includes a special Brazilian stout not sold anywhere else in the area)
On The Border Mexican Cafe & Cantina:
3080 Iowa St.
— Cinco shots for $2, $3 or $4
  — $4 margaritas
— Beer specials and bottles for $3
— $4 tequila shots
— $5 gold margaritas
— $6.50 infused house margaritas
— $6 lime margaritas
— $10 bucket beer
— $3 Corona Light on tap
Salty Iguana Mexican Restaurant:
4931 W. 6th St.
FILM
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Andrew Garfield and Dane DeHaan are pictured in this scene from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," which debuted this weekend.
NEW YORK — Spider-Man can still sling it at the box office.
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" debuted with $92 million in North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was a solid opening for Sony's Columbia Pictures, which has released five movies about Marvel's web-slinging superhero in the last 14 years.
The release of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" essentially kicks off Hollywood's summer season and its annual parade of sequels and spectacle. Marvel movies have regularly commenced summer moviegoing in recent years, and the "Spider-Man 2" opening begins the season with a business-as-usual blockbuster performance.
'Spider-Man 2' ropes in $92 million opening
Last week's No. 1 film, the female revenge comedy "The Other Woman," starring Cameron Diaz, slid to a distant second with $14 million in its second weekend.
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The rebooted "Spider-Man" franchise starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone isn't performing quite as strongly as Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire. On opening weekends, the Raimi films grossed, in order: $114.1 million, $88.2 million and $151.1 million.
The "The Amazing Spider-Man," also directed by Marc Webb, opened on a Tuesday in 2012, making $62 million on its debut weekend and $137 million over its first six days.
The new sequel, which began rolling out overseas two weeks ago, is also doing huge international business. It has already grossed $161 million abroad,
and it added another $116 million over the weekend.
That included $10.4 million from China, where it opened Sunday on a record 11,002 screens. And it set a record for Hollywood titles in India with a $6.5 million debut.
"Everywhere we opened just popped," said Rory Bruer, head of domestic distribution for Sony.
"It did seem to have a very strong component to the film, which we felt was an opportunity," Bruer said. "It also lends itself to a picture that will be around the market for a while, too."
Domestically, families made up 33 percent of the audience of the PG-13 "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," a high percentage for a superhero film.
"Spider-Man" follows Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," released by Disney, by just a month. (The "Captain America" sequel is still in the top 5, with $7.8 million in its fifth week.)
But as Hollywood's summer rolls on, the competition gets stiffer. In two weeks, Warner Bros, opens the highly anticipated monster movie "Godzilla."
Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak, said that shouldn't pose problems for the Marvel juggernaut.
"In the summer, two weeks is a lot of time between blockbusters," Dergarabedian said. "You don't see this kind of consistency in a particular genre that often."
The marketplace made way for "Spider-Man" over the weekend with no other new wide releases.
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