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		<title>Crab Cakes, Eggplant, and Unexpected Surprises</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/12/31/crab-cakes-eggplant-and-unexpected-surprises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do you say when you don’t cook much anymore? When you find yourself falling back on the now tired recipes that you’ve lovingly developed over the years, that ones that reflect your style and how you want your food to taste, but that now seem as boring as the roads you’ve driven on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoked Salmon and Corn Chowder – The Leftover Chronicles Continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve been enjoying using up leftovers. Granted, good leftovers require some good dinners as starting points, but that is OK, too. It’s just that after a week of Hannah and her girls and Sarah’s sister Anne, we have a lot of leftovers in the fridge I want to use up.
The rules are simple: use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking with Charlotte-Macaroni and Cheese</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/07/15/cooking-with-charlotte-macaroni-and-cheese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the number of children and grandchildren in my life, you’d think at least one would be interested in cooking. But no. Each one has a passing interest that quickly fades. Perhaps it’s my teaching style. Hopefully not. Anyway, when Rachel’s daughter Charlotte came to stay with us for this past week part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Slaw&#8211;who&#8217;d&#039;a thunk it?</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/05/01/asian-slaw-whoda-thunk-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 11:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a good week for food. Especially eating. On Thursday (my memory doesn’t extend back further)(you know how that is), the Food Bank of Western Mass held a fund-raiser at the Blue Heron. The theme this year was street food—American, Mexican, Thai, Indian, and Greek.
It was pretty good—roast lamb from the Greek stand. Chicken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SALTED: A Manifesto by Mark Bitterman</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/04/23/salted-a-manifesto-by-mark-bitterman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first met Mark Bitterman at a food writer’s conference several years back. He gave an impromptu salt tasting that introduced me, and perhaps many of the writers in attendance, to artisan salts. At the time, I remember not being able to taste much difference between the various salts and commenting that the flake and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brussels Sprouts and Chestnuts</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/04/09/684/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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Roast vegetable season, at least oven roasted, is nearing an end. Once I clean the grill and check the propane, grilled vegetables will begin with roast asparagus. (Gas, I know, but during the week it is incredibly convenient.) However good they are, I’m getting a little tired of roasted root vegetables, even Brussels sprouts.
We used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerked Pork and Snow Iris Shoots</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/03/14/jerked-pork-and-snow-iris-shoots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to talk about last’s week’s rain and floods but after the disaster in Japan they are quite beside the point.
So, I will simply note that it’s been warm and relatively dry. We have snow irises peeking up, the first sign that, yes, the earth has decided that summer will come again. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Recipes</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/01/13/testing-recipes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been testing recipes for a friend of mine. I can’t say more about the recipes themselves—sworn to secrecy—but it was interesting to me to see how I approached the recipes.
Normally, you read a recipe and assume the writer knows what s/he’s talking about. Maybe you start to feel otherwise as you go through it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Year in Food</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/01/02/my-year-in-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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There are advantages to living in a small community with local farms. Aside from the summer farmer’s markets and farm stands, the local restaurants can make good on serving local produce. I can now choose from two Winter Farmer’s markets, with greenhouse/hydroponic greens, root vegetables, cheeses, and meat. One of them is less than a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a New Dawn. Sorry about those who got the Green.</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/01/01/its-a-new-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of science fiction, there was a Piers Anthony novel, Orn, that I used to read. There were two stories that alternated chapters. In one a group of humans is stranded on a new planet. It was the second book in a series and I never really understood what they were escaping from or doing, [...]]]></description>
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