These basic ingredients combine magically:

 
Serve a whole fresh fig or two as a garnish.

To make this salad a main meal, add Serrano ham or prosciutto and serve with some fine artisan bread.

Popeye never ate so well!

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Spinach salad with apples, nuts and goat cheese. Photo courtesy Southern Living, which used curried pecans and maple vinaigrette. Here’s the recipe.

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Charleston Favorites is another happy example of a businessperson from a “traditional” sector of industry who followed his love into the food business. Proprietor Jimmy Hagood began in insurance sales, and now owns a thriving catering business in Charleston, as well as a manufacturing company that sells Southern specialties throughout the United States. Delicacies such as benne wafers, peach butter, pepper jelly and, of course, barbecue sauces and rubs are just part of a line that sends a taste of the South anywhere.

A charming gift box arrived containing a two-pound bag of Charleston Favorites Stone Ground Grits and an 18-ounce bottle of Tidewater Shrimp Sauce and Marinade. The grits take about 35 minutes to cook; we sautéed the shrimp in about three minutes. The results were one of the best meals we’ve had in a long time—perhaps because, as New Yorkers, we don’t get too much lowcountry cuisine. We added a large green salad, but the oohs and aahs were earned by the grits and shrimp.

Not only would we gladly cook this dinner on a regular basis; we’d send it as a gift to almost everyone, because it requires minimal cooking skills. If you can make hot cereal, you can make grits. If you can pour the contents of a bottle into a sauté pan, add peeled shrimp and stir, you can have delectable Tidewater shrimp. Read the full review on TheNibble.com.

We made this incredibly delicious
S’mores with Tiny Trapeze graham
crackers and chocolate marshmallows,
and a Chocolove 77% cacao Extra
Strong Dark chocolate bar.

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