Grapefruit

If you don't want to cook a live lobster for this recipe, buy 2/3 pound cooked lobster meat from your seafood shop. Active time: 45 min Start to finish: 2 3/4 hr (includes chilling)

The idea for this salad came from Carlos Conrique, who worked at Billy Cross's cooking school in Morelia, a beautiful 16th-century Mexican town. Today, Conrique is a chef at the Blue Door, in Miami's Delano Hotel, where his dishes are still influenced by his childhood in Guadalajara.

Lime and grapefruit juices enhance the creamy white-chocolate filling in this treat.

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less but requires additional unattended time.

This light, lovely dessert is a refreshing way to end the meal. Partner the fruit with sesame cookies.

This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less. This recipe also works with oranges and tangerines: Substitute 2 oranges or 3 tangerines for the grapefruit.

This simple, delicious recipe mixes hot and cold, sweet and tart. It's from a high-school cooking class of thirty years ago. If there is a problem with eggs in your region, do not prepare this dessert.

This would also make a nice dessert either on its own or over vanilla frozen yogurt.

Frozen into a slushy, the classic tequila and grapefruit cocktail becomes even more refreshing.

This light and drinkable cocktail pairs the bittersweet flavor of grapefruit with botanical gin and sparkling sake for a bubbly finish.

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Revive yourself for the night ahead with this vivid tequila, grapefruit, and Campari cocktail.

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Treating grapefruit like raw fish gives you permission to get as fancy as you’d like plating and arranging this textural winter salad.

Step aside, overly sweet mocktails. Thanks to balanced citrusy flavors, this drink tastes like a grown-up Gatorade. 

On a blazing summer day, nothing hits quite like a sweet, sour, and lightly salty paloma cocktail that comes together in just a moment.