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One of my favorite Mexican chefs, Roberto Santibañez (of Brooklyn restaurant Fonda), once told me that the nickname for Mexico City natives like himself is limones, because they love fresh lime with almost everything they eat. And rightfully so. Lime adds a crisp high note to simple dishes, from chunks of mango to a margarita, to meats like chicken and fish.

Marinated in lime juice, tomato salsa and Dijon mustard, chicken gets lively, as in this recipe. (If you don't want to grill the marinated meat, you can also pan sauté it.) And once you get the limones thing going, try this robust Mexican chicken-lime soup from Kitchen Daily contributor Caroline Bates.

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Check out the color on that chicken. Those legs and thighs spent some good time in their yogurt and spice marinade before getting to a very hot grill. Yumm-y! The picture belongs to Flickr user my amii and you can find the recipe here.

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Or it might be the very best, I don't know. #1 is probably still the Smart Ones Fire Grilled Chicken & Vegetables I reviewed last year, but this other one is coming on strong.

It's the new Boston Market Grilled Chicken with Mesquite BBQ Sauce and Ranch Mashed Potatoes. This, in a word, is fantastic. The BBQ sauce actually tastes like real BBQ sauce. The mashed potatoes, which are usually one of the worst parts of any frozen entree or dinner, are the best frozen mashed potatoes I've ever tasted. They may even be better than the powdered stuff you buy in a box (if you are prone to do that). They're not all mushy and bland tasting (or worse, crusty and styrofoam tasting). The ranch flavor adds a nice kick too.

I'm not saying you should buy this in place of any BBQ chicken and mashed potatoes you might make at home. But hey, we all eat frozen foods at one time or another during the week, so I'd have a few boxes of this in the freezer for those times.