Sweet and savory go together like summer and sunshine, and TV star Valerie Bertinelli offers layers of these flavors with her bacon-wrapped jalapeño shrimp with cherry cola BBQ sauce dish. She then follows it up with a recipe for a refreshing lemon-raspberry panna cotta—a perfect finishing touch for a summer get-together.

Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Shrimp

Lemon-Raspberry Panna Cotta

Excerpted from Valerie’s Home Cooking by Valerie Bertinelli. Copyright © 2017 Oxmoor House. Reprinted with permission from Time Inc. Books, a division of Time Inc. New York, NY. All rights reserved.

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