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		<title>Crab Cakes, Eggplant, and Unexpected Surprises</title>
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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>Cooking with Charlotte-Macaroni and Cheese</title>
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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>Lady Slippers and Morels &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 11:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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The lady slippers come out in May, at least at the nearby reservoir where I can always find them. I wasn&#8217;t sure what all the rain had done to them, but I took a walk this past Sunday. There were flowers in most of the places where I&#8217;ve found them before and, in a surprise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SALTED: A Manifesto by Mark Bitterman</title>
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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>
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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>Veal Roasts and Roasted Vegetables</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2011/01/23/veal-roasts-and-roasted-vegetables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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Photo by Bill Ives. Used with permission.
So much for posting regularly. Work, snow, various ailments, you know, the usual excuses. I have been cooking, though, enough to have something to talk about.
For one thing, I’ve been roasting vegetables. Between carrots and turnips, Brussels sprouts, green beans, and, my favorite, sweet potatoes, they’ve been really successful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Year in Food</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>Cookbooks I Won&#8217;t Live Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What these books have in common is that they read as good as they eat. These are not necessarily the best or most comprehensive cookbooks and they are not necessarily the ones I use today.  Sure flavors and techniques are key, to be sure, but all of these books also boast beautiful prose. Coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Books I Don&#8217;t Want to Live Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are neither the best cookbooks nor the most trendy. They are simply my personal favorites, books I&#8217;ve re-read over and over and dip into again and again. Often, a sentence I&#8217;ve written will jump back and remind me of the book and style that inspired it. First round below. More to follow as I [...]]]></description>
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