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Frozen Tangerine Margarita

Tangerine juice is the perfect flavor for a frozen margarita. This juice is sweet, tangy and citrusy. I purchase my tangerine juice locally at Fresh Market. It is a little pricey, but well worth it when I add it to fresh lime juice and tequila to make this fabulous cocktail.

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Italian Cheese Stuffed Shells

My cheese stuffed jumbo pasta shells have a secret ingredient – Olivelle Pizzaolio Infused Olive Oil. Tastes like pizza in a bottle! Tuscan olive oil with garlic, basil, rosemary, oregano and spicy chilies (for just a hint of spiciness). You know how sometimes pasta with meat sauce can be dry?

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Cheese Grits

My husband love grits and would eat them for breakfast every morning if he had the opportunity. His mom always made grits for family breakfasts. I grew up in the south but my mom was from the north, so she did not serve grits for breakfast. I didn’t see the

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Southern Spoonbread

Not your grandma’s spoonbread! This is much better! My “Gram” used to make delicious spoonbread, but she made it with yellow cornmeal, which tended to make it “gritty”. I make mine with a white cornmeal and flour mix that makes it velvety smooth. I could eat a whole pan of

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Mango Salsa

Serve this flavorful fresh mango salsa with roasted or grilled pork, grilled shrimp or hint of lime tortilla chips.

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El Diablo Cocktail

A lovely tequila cocktail which combines tequila with creme de cassis (a sweet blackcurrant liqueur), lime juice and ginger. So refreshing and fruity with a bit of ZING from the ginger beer!

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Bolognese Sauce over Angel Hair Pasta

My favorite dish to serve on Sunday evening is pasta. Something about simmering tomato sauce on my stove (something like “Sunday Sauce” – a rich, slow-cooked meat-based tomato sauce that a centerpiece of Italian-American Sunday dinners – maybe this comes from me watching too many episodes of The Sopranos?). I

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