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	<description>When your belly hangs over your waistband in a delicious pudge. Or...a yummy baked good. Orrr...a food blog.</description>
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		<title>Gyoza!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are blessed to have an amazing and awesome houseguest who is staying with us for several weeks. Hooray! It is a great thing to have someone who likes to cook, living with us and cooking in our kitchen! Last night she introduced us to the joy of gyoza, aka potstickers. This is something I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=434&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KCCEB&#8217;s kimchi making class/series: kimchi, de-mystified.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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(pictures from our kimchi making class, from left to right&#8230;top row: quartered napa cabbage, and brined, quartered napa cabbage ready for pogi kimchi assembly&#8230;red hot pepper&#8230;shrimp and anchovy sauce for kimchi.  middle row: brined quartered napa cabbage&#8230;pogi kimchi filling&#8230;pogi kimchi filling.  bottom row: pogi kimchi assembly&#8230;pogi kimchi assembly line&#8230;.bottled pogi kimchi ready to ferment!)
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		<title>Farm City</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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Farm City is an awesome read, written by Novella Carpenter, whose book I rank up with Bill Buford&#8217;s Heat, with the spirit of Michael Pollan&#8217;s Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma.  And I love the voice&#8211;Novella the narrator often wonders why people open up to her and accept her so readily (among others, Chris Lee of Eccolo, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=416&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fancy it up with truffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve only had truffle overload once: in New York, at the now-defunct Palio restaurant a dozen years ago, with so much truffle on my risotto that afterward I burped truffle.  And ended up throwing up truffle risotto into the toilet of my hotel room.  Lucky toilet. 
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		<title>Pears with an adjective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Fragrant pears,&#8221; said the sign at Ranch 99.
I bent in to sniff.  An Asian lady rifling through the pile of elliptical fruit with a surface looking like a bedsheet covering up a pile of boulders, reminding me of quince in both color and texture, looked on amused, as if she was about to snort [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=403&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cincinnati chili now added to our household rotation</title>
		<link>http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/cincinnati-chili-now-added-to-our-household-rotation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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This dish has walked through my viewfinder several times, in increasing frequency, such that I just had to try it out.
I first heard about Cincinnati chili when I watched an Anthony Bourdain episode about Cleveland, where one of his best buddies, Michael Ruhlman, a food writer and BIG Ohio Fan, resides.  They went to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=392&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>red beans and rice</title>
		<link>http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/red-beans-and-rice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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I looooove red beans and rice.  If offered, I never pass up a chance at a big bowl of long grained rice topped with the savory saucy spicy beans.  And it&#8217;s not just red beans and rice&#8211;I just love beans and rice, period!  I knew a guy who lived on welfare in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=389&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stretching a Chicken: do chua and banh mi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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The economy&#8217;s faltering and my doctor just told me to lower my sodium intake&#8211;bleah.  The two situations sum up to more home cooking: save money, avoid sodium.  Very pragmatic.  Hrm.  Prag.mat.ic.  Prac.tic.al.  I met the decision with a sigh.  No more chip snacks, no more ramen, no more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=369&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lunchtime Crunchtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric L</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s been this strange economizing thing that&#8217;s come over me in the past few weeks &#8211; since my return from London, I suspect. I actually have found that the mantra my mate Marie used, &#8220;Credit crunch &#8211; packed lunch!&#8221; seems to have gotten stuck into my conciousness and the result is that rather than popping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=371&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jacques Pepin&#8217;s Caramelized Apple Granola Timbale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c(h)ristine</dc:creator>
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I love Jacques Pepin.  LOVE HIM.  Loved him with his daughter Claudine (&#8220;Claudine, you are&#8211;you are chopping eet wrong&#8230;why are you chopping eet so slowww&#8230;Bon Appetit!&#8221;)&#8230;loved him with Julia (their rapport was amazing and made me feel like a totally delighted and privileged eavesdropper)&#8230;and love him on &#8220;Fast Food My Way.&#8221; (quick cooking! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&blog=405757&post=362&subd=muffintop&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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