Place the breasts skin side up in a baking dish.

Let stand until they have softened, about 5 minutes.. Ladle the soup into bowls.Garnish with cucumber slices and serve.. Make Ahead.

The soup can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.. Notes.One Serving 112 cal, 7 gm fat, 1.5 gm sat fat, 9 gm carb, 0.9 gm fiber..Originally appeared: March 2009.2 dozen sandwich cookies.

1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar.1 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cubed.

About 1/2 cup apricot jam.

7 ounces almond paste.The Best Rare Bourbons for a Whiskey Drinker's Collection.

To hear LeNell Camacho Santa Ana tell it, I was a regular customer at her pioneering Red Hook, Brooklyn bottle shop from pretty much the get-go in 2003, and seeing as I dorked out every time I came in, she offered me a job to which I replied, "You can't afford me."In my recollection, that is true up to the last part of the sentence, because A. I'm not prone to that kind of sass and B. what I imagine I was trying to convey is that the last time I'd worked in a retail shop where they sold something that spoke to my passions (that'd be the HMV record store in Herald Square, kitty-corner from Macy's in the mid '90s) I couldn't actually afford it because I took full and frequent advantage of the employee discount and essentially had to deposit my paycheck right back into the till.

Still, she didn't seem to take great offense and I hung on her every bit of wisdom about whiskey in all its forms, as well as life, love, and the importance of not missing a chance to open the good stuff.On a random weekend in the winter of 2008, for instance, she'd busted out a couple of bottles of 1970 Lafite to enjoy alongside a. potato-chip-topped squash casserole.