So I wanted to create a NEW PRODUCTS category and have it as a root menu item on my horizontal menu bar and remove any reference to it on my categories list.
Alright after a bit of poking around and creating my root menu item called "What's New", I found that I could remove specific menu item from my horizontal menu bar by adding a conditional statement wrapped around the template that creates the menu items called EntityMenuList.xslt.
Code:
<xsl:if test="$eName != 'New Products'">
<item>
...
...
...
</item>
</xsl:if>
Not sure if this is the right approach, but it works…so I thought I would share.