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How Do You Roll? Prepares Sushi For You …. Your Way

Craving fresh sushi rolls, but don’t have that kind of time on your hands?

Supermarket or sushi bar -- want more options?  Seeking something new and different? ...

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Y'all Magazine Brings Sweet Tea Challenge to Hall County's Laurel Park
This year the Y'all Magazine Sweet Tea Challenge will follow the ABA BBQ Cook-Off tour to be held in conjunction with Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Weekend Series tournaments to its five locations in the southern US in 2010...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2008 Shoo Fly Shiraz
This is a Shiraz just bursting with flavors of raspberry and blueberry, finishing long and smooth, with a little spice, and a taste of mellow tannin at the end! Coming out of South Australia with grapes form McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek, and Clare Valley, this is a "knock your socks off" Shiraz!...
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From Miss Mary’s Kitchen: Chicken Divine!

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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2008 Concha Y Toro Casillero Del Diablo Carmenere
The flavors abound with the spicy and earthy tones of black cherry, currant, and maybe a little blackberry. The finish is long and smooth, with only subtle hints of oak...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2007 Martin Codax Ergo Rioja
It is full flavored and bursting with gobs of plum and berry flavors. The color is a dark ruby red, and the aroma is almost intoxicating. The finish is long and lingering...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2006 Ten Mile California Proprietary Red Wine
The color is dark red and the nose broadcasts aromas of dark berries and black cherry. The flavors of blackberry and black cherry swirl together toward a firm and finely balanced finish, with notes of toasty oak...
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Dine the United Way Thanks Participating Restaurants
The Blue Bicycle, Fajita Grill and McDonald's will be donating a percentage of their proceeds to United Way of Dawsonville on January 14, so grab family and friends and eat out that night!...
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Cooking Down Home with the Neelys
Gina and Pat Neelys first cookbook, Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook, is climbing the bestseller lists. With more than 120 original Southern recipes passed down from one Neely generation to the next, many of their signature dishes are featured...
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Persimmon Creek Vineyards and Atlanta Wine School Present Vintage 2010 Program
Be a Winemaker, begins in February and includes 12 day-long sessions at Persimmon Creek Vineyards, under the tutelage of owners and winemakers Mary Ann and Sonny Hardman.  The experience offers the chance to reconnect with nature through an engaging hands-on discovery of the resources and efforts involved with running a sustainable farm and vineyard...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2007 Mercer Estates Pinot Gris
With a nose full of fresh pears, and flavors that swirl with peaches and melon, this Pinot Gris is a real knockout when it first assails your senses. The finish has a good balance between the fruit and acidity...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2008 Chateau St. Jean Sonoma Fume Blanc
The Chateau St. Jean Fume Blanc has definitely improved with a little more time in the bottle, and I found it to be quite delightful. The last time I tasted it, I had it with Shrimp Scampi, so I guess in order to compare apples to apples, I will have to get my wife Mary to prepare her fabulous Scampi, and I will have to taste this wonderful bottle of wine one more time. It is a tough job, but I think I am up to the challenge...
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Gifts for Gourmets: The Season for Creative Giving
I enjoy collecting cookbooks and I love to give them to ambitious home chefs and self-taught cooks.  Entertaining from an Ethnic Indian Kitchen, is 300-plus pages of gorgeous color photographs, featuring hundreds of delicious and unusual recipes by Komali Nunna, the 'Indian Martha Stewart'...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2007 Francis Coppola Diamond Collection Cabernet Sauvignon
Combining grapes from as far north as El Dorado, and as far south as Paso Robles has created a terrific bottle of California Cabernet from the folks at Coppola. The wine is dark red in color with a nose of berries and currants...
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From Miss Mary’s Kitchen: Shrimp and Asparagus Casserole
When Justin Wilson's 'The Cookin' Cajun' aired, I was usually seated in front of the TV with pen in hand, ready to capture whatever special recipe he was preparing for that episode.  Besides his obvious enjoyment of the bountiful seafood available in the Bayou state, the tales he told as he prepared a dish added great ‘flavor’ to the food...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2005 Geyser Peak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
This is a wonderful bottle of Cabernet, with nice aromas of blueberry, plum, and currant up front, followed closely with lush flavors of dark cherry and berry...
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Three Forsyth County Teachers Take Home the Turkey
Qwizzy’s World (QW), an online study site based in Forsyth County, recently held a contest for Forsyth County teachers, whereby QW would give away 10-12 pound turkeys, courtesy of Rick Tanner’s Grille & Bar in Cumming, to the teachers whose lucky tickets were drawn during the very first ‘QW Contest for Teachers’...
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From Miss Mary's Kitchen: Saucy Cornish Hens
If you have never enjoyed Cornish game hens, they are cross-bred chickens that are younger than the poultry we normally find in the meat department, and are both extremely tender and very flavorful...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: Thanksgiving Favorites
For myself, I always go for a good bottle of German Riesling, or one of the good domestic ones from New York State, or Washington State. The fruity, but dry finish of a good Riesling is perfect for that dry white meat turkey, which did not turn out as juicy as you had hoped for...
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Norm's Tasting Notes: 2007 Acacia "A" California Red Blend
The big fruit flavors of cherry and plum crash into your palate with all of the customary force usually found in a Rhone style wine. The wine is fruity and earthy and goes well with any hearty meat dish...
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