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	Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix	Mary Jane's Bloody Mary Mix (just a little softer)	Celebrate Good Times Gazpacho	Big Mary's Be Young, Be Foolish Be Happy Salsa	Big Mary's Roasted Garlic and Hot Pepper Hummus
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	Big Mary's Roasted Garlic and Hot Pepper Hummus For you hummus lovers out there, here's some useful information from those of us at Liquid Chef. The Phoenicians are credited with bringing it to Western Europe, although that statement is highly disputed. We just think that everyone wants the credit because it is so good. You can go all the way back to Roman times and find garbanzos, or chick peas, fully entrenched in the Iberian diet. Did you know that we (we, as in our very bright historians) can trace the cultivation of the chick pea back 7000 years? Enough history, now on to language. Hummus is the Arabic word for chick pea. Also pronounced garbanzo in Spanish, ceci in Italian, gram in India, and for you really scientific types, the official name for chick pea is Cicer arietinum. And finally for you spelling buffs: hoummos, hommos, homous, humos, and the officially accepted spelling fro m the Macquarie Dictionary: hummus. Whatever your beliefs are about hummus, we believe that ours is one of the best. We roast our own garlic and locally grown peppers (poblanos and jalapeños). Each batch is produced in small quantities, using our special ingredient: Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix! We do not add any funky stuff like preservatives. Here are some fun serving ideas: for you traditionalists, serve it with plain pita bread. We like it with pita chips, with any raw vegetable (for your health buffs), as a paste on grilled meats or by itself with a spoon. Expand your minds, as hummus is very versatile if you choose to experiment. Our hummus is currently only available locally in limited quantities to ensure perfection. It is not currently available for shipping, but we are working on it. Contact us for ways to get your hands and mouth on our hummus. Just remember, Liquid Chef's Roasted Garlic and Hot Pepper Hummus is Yummus!

	Celebrate Good Times Gazpacho Are you ready for good times? Settle in, relax, and let's learn about gazpacho. Gazpacho is a liquid salad from the southern Spanish region of Andalusia, originally field worker's or poor people's food. Original recipes call for a bread mixture, but we at Liquid chef try to keep our carb count low. If you want to carbo load, try serving it with a baguette or any type of cracker. Whatever blows your skirt up. The popularity of gazpacho is credited to Eugenia de Montijo, the wife of French Emperor Napoleon III in the 19th century. As far as we can find out, the first published American recipe was in The Virginia Housewife by Mary Rudolph in 1824. Is your brain tired yet? Hang in there, we only have a little more to learn. The history of Liquid Chef's "Celebrate Good Times" Gazpacho is a short, local story. Our friend/realtor, Tammy Garner (yes, we asked permission to use her name) used Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix in conjunction with a gazpacho recipe published in our local paper and brought it to us at the Downtown Farmer's Market. We sampled, took notes, sampled our customers, took notes, sampled our friends, and took more notes. Like all great things in America, trial and tribulation are the way to perfection. After compiling all of our notes, comments and suggestions until our hands and brains cramped, we went into the kitchen and "Celebrate Good Times" gazpacho was born. We chose the name because life is too short to not "celebrate good times", and our gazpacho just creates a good feeling. Our customers are consistently giving us feed back such as "this is the best commercially produced gazpacho I have ever had", "I lived in Spain for eight years and this is better than anything I ever had there", "I make my own, but yours is much better and I don't have to do a thing". It's not brain surgery, just the right combination of Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), kosher salt, black pepper, fresh garlic, and locally grown tomatoes, onions, green bell peppers, cucumbers and cilantro. Let us do all the peeling, chopping and mixing, or visit our recipe collection if you are up to a small culinary challenge. Visit our Online Market or contact us with comments or questions. Everyone needs to "Celebrate Good Times" Gazpacho!

	Big Mary's Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy Salsa We'll just jump right in with two of the biggest events in salsa history: 1) in 1991, salsa surpassed ketchup as America's top selling condiment; and 2) in 1994, Campbell Soup Company bought top salsa manufacturer Pace for a reported $1.1 billion. Oh my goodness. Someday we'll be among those statistics, but for now, we feel happy about being one of the best locally produced salsas around! Our deep, dark, secret is using Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix as the base. While using only locally grown produce, we not only maintain freshness, but also support our local farmers. "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy." In their 1968 song, "Be young, be foolish, be happy" musical group the Tams wrote, "Life is too short to worry about unimportant things". Ain't that the truth? They also wrote, "Don't let the rain get you down, it's a waste of time ... have your fun, live everyday in the bright sunshine." It applies to all us at Liquid Chef. It's how our salsa makes you feel. Can you feel it? Living in the South (yes, Florida is the South, at least geographically) grants us access to some of the finest fruits and veggies around. Our location allows us time and products to experiment with, so keep an eye open for seasonal salsas, like our Mango, Papaya and Kiwi. "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy." Our original salsa is a beautiful blend of three different types of onions and three different types of peppers (both fresh and fire roasted). Some say it's the best they've ever had! We think you will too. Visit our Online Market to order or Email us with comments, questions or suggestions. Check out our recipe page for those of you who like to Chef it up. "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy." Salsa anyone?

	Mary Jane's Bloody Mary Mix "I'm in love with Mary Jane, she's my main thing. She makes me feel all right, she makes my heart sing." Rick James That's how we feel at Liquid Chef. Mary Jane is her own separate entity, sometimes overshadowed by Big Mary, the same big flavor, just 75% less heat for the more sensitive palate. Mary Jane can be enjoyed all day, every day, with or without liquor. It's really great after a workout to! She's carefully produced in small batches and her sodium content (13%) is much, much lower than our mainstream, mass produced competitors (60%-70%). Make your heart sing with a little Mary Jane. You'll fall in love with her too! Contact us with questions or comments, or visit our Online Market to order.

	Big Mary's Bloody Mary Mix What can you say about Bloody Mary’s? Everybody loves them from time to time, some a little more often than others. With so many choices on the market today, how do you decide. Our simple answer is: choose quality. Who wants something mass produced and loaded with tons of artificial stuff, half of which you can’t pronounce? We have the perfect solution to the age old dilemma of which Mary Mix is the best for me? Big Mary’s Bloody Mary Mix is the answer. Anyone can whip up a basic Bloody Mary, but why keep all of those “use once in a while” ingredients clogging up your valuable pantry and refrigerator space? We found Big Mary at a local store and she supplied us with all the necessary motivation to get our business underway. Just look at her. Bold, vivacious and proud. Our recipe is twenty plus years in the making and only takes a small place on your shelf or in your fridge (once it’s opened). We never, ever, ever, use funky additives or preservatives. We produce our Mix in small batches, sampling every one, using only the finest, quality, classic ingredients. Our secret isn’t the ingredients, which we will gladly share, it is the process in which we produce quality. That, unfortunately, we will not share. Big Mary’s Bloody Mary Mix is the perfect combination of years of testing, tomato juice, beef bouillon, kosher salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce and horseradish, sugar and molasses. It is perfectly spicy, yet not too much to hide all of the incredible flavors. For the more delicate palette, consider Mary Jane’s Bloody Mary Mix. All the flavor with a little less spice. Are you thirsty yet? Don’t forget to check out Online Market for ordering information, or our recipe collection to find all sorts of fun things to do with Big Mary’s Bloody Mary Mix!