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		<title>&#8220;Muffin Top&#8221; makes it into the Oxford English Dictionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interrupt this rarely-updated blog to announce&#8230;that &#8220;muffin top&#8221; has made it into the OED. You may resume activity now. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=480&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanito</dc:creator>
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		<title>Polenta Cornbread: A Happy Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I was planning to make chili for dinner. Usually we serve chili over rice (natch) but I had a quart of buttermilk in the fridge and thought&#8230; can I use that to make some cornbread? I went over to &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/polenta-cornbread-a-happy-mistake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=465&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>West coast apple cider donuts/doughnuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<title>Haiti</title>
		<link>http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(For those of you who don&#8217;t know, who for some reason have internet but don&#8217;t check news or Facebook or twitter and hang out with people who don&#8217;t check news or FB or twitter, Haiti, the poorest nation in the &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/haiti/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=443&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanito</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 &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/gyoza/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=434&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(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 &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/kccebs-kimchi-making-classseries-kimchi-de-mystified/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=428&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/farm-city/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=416&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/fancy-it-up-with-truffle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muffintop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=405757&amp;post=409&amp;subd=muffintop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pears with an adjective</title>
		<link>http://muffintop.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/pears-with-an-adjective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChristineZ</dc:creator>
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