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A Taste of The South

A Taste of The South

Shrimp and Grits

My niece is one of our faithful audience members and is constantly submitting recipes for us to try. Since I wasn’t feeling very inspired, I reached out to her for this week’s recipe. She immediately responded by requesting Bobby Flay’s Shrimp and Grits recipe from the Food Network website. Although, I have made polenta many times before I have never made grits. It turns out that polenta is made from yellow corn and grits from finer ground white corn.

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Miami Burger

Miami Burger

Cuban Style Burger

Sometimes I wonder if everyone has his or her own culinary pet peeve, I know I do. You hear it all the time; New Yorkers have a lot to say about their pizza. Chicagoans are passionate about their hot dogs and Philadelphians are crazy about their cheesesteaks. Well, I feel the same about the Cuban sandwich. Growing up in Miami, I know my Cuban sandwiches and for years I watched celebrity chefs make “authentic” Cuban sandwiches. It makes me

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We All Scream For Ice Cream

We All Scream For Ice Cream

 

Goat Cheese and Roasted Cherry Ice Cream

Over spring break, we spent the week in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains in a cabin not far from the Mountain Valley Farm, a grass-fed cattle farm. Knowing we wanted to grill steaks that evening, we hopped on over for fresh beef. I was expecting to see the normal items sold at a smaller farmer’s market like strawberry jam and things like that. I was not expecting

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