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Shrimp Spring Roll Bowls with Sweet Garlic Lime Sauce

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Now this is my kind of meal! All of the great flavors of an Asian Shrimp Spring Roll made much easier by combining these wonderful ingredients in a bowl rather than a wonton rapper or rice paper. We featured this delicious dish in my Cool Down Dinners cooking class recently and there were many empty bowls and lots of happy tummies!

The Sweet Garlic Lime Sauce is the perfect flavor enhancer and my technique for pre-cooking the shrimp was the added special touch for this memorable meal. If you haven’t cooked shrimp this way, you really should give it a try for flavor that bursts in your mouth. Just add some Old Bay seasoning and the juice of a lemon in a small pot of water. Bring it to a boil and then turn off the heat. Add your shrimp, cover the pot and let the shrimp steep for 5 minutes. That’s it! Drain the shrimp and then add them to all the rest of the great flavors in this bowl and you have a light and savory meal in minutes!

Apple Pie Ravioli

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Start up a conversation about holiday pies and you’ll find that people are passionate and opinionated about their seasonal favorites. When it comes to pumpkin pie in particular, well, there’s just a lot of opining about the filling, the crust, the topping and the temperature pumpkin pie should be served. To be perfectly honest, I’ve tried to love pumpkin pie all of my life. I’ve tried it extra-sweet, creamy, cold, whipped cream-topped soft crust, crispy crust and every variation in between. What’s wrong with me? To this day I find pumpkin pie rather…boring and obligatory. So while I’m waiting for the pumpkin pie recipes from you that will surely change my mind (please!) I’m offering up a pie of a different sort. Delicious, beautifully-presented miniature fruit pie that reflects my Italian heritage; the Apple Pie Ravioli. After all, this is the time of year we do things a little more special, a little more glittery, a little more memorable. These Apple Pie Ravioli look like you’ve spent time at a culinary institute, but they’re actually quite simple, beginning with store-bought refrigerated pie dough. The filling is the same as in a delicious homemade apple pie, and with some dough cutouts and a little sprinkle of decorative sugar, you have gorgeous, individual holiday mini pies that wow. This year, make your holiday dessert table a little extra yummy and extra beautiful with Apple Pie Ravioli!