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  • Grill or broil, brushing occasionally with the honey-chile glaze, until the ham and pineapple are lightly charred, 5 to 10 minutes.

    The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010

  • Either you've got the goods or you don't honey-chile.

    SHOUT-OUT TO THIS WEBSITE'S VISITORS Maggie Jochild 2007

  • June 6th, 2006 at 8:35 pm lotuslander, I sure will, honey-chile!

    Firedoglake » Immigrant Workers: Impaled, Shredded And Buried Alive 2006

  • "You havin a good time back dere, honey-chile?" she asked each time the chair ran into one of these drybogs.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • For so long the poor child "couldn't eat no thin '," and when at last Minta's appetite returned, her loving black nurse would give her anything she wanted, and if the fever hadn't hopelessly damaged the little one's digestive glands, Mammy Lou's unfailing "l'il snacks for her honey-chile" would have completed the wreckage.

    Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

  • The fried chicken, served with an addictive honey-chile dipping sauce, was too dark - "truculent, not succulent," said one diner-but a perfectly seared salmon fillet with French lentils and beurre blanc solved the mystery of why such a banal-sounding dish was on the specials board.

    The New Yorker 2009

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