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		<title>pears in honeyed wine sauce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a delicious and relatively simple dessert from Jacques Pepin&#8217;s cookbook Fast Food My Way. He suggests that this is a perfect dessert after a heavy meal. We found that we had some leftover sauce after eating all of the pears, and this went very well over vanilla ice cream the next day. Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=220&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>broccoli rabe and pea fricasee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a versatile side dish that is a good accompaniment to a red sauce or a chicken dish. The recipe comes from Jacques Pepin&#8217;s cookbook Fast Food My Way, and I often serve the side with other recipes from his cookbook, like chicken tonnato or chicken breasts with garlic and parsley. Here&#8217;s the recipe adapted from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=226&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>filet mignon with stroganov sauce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the theme of leftovers from Thanksgiving, my wife and I planned last night&#8217;s meal arounf a half-full container of sour cream in the fridge. In our house, if we need to finish off some sour cream, we often think of beef Stroganoff. This time, my wife recalled a recipe in the November 2006 issue of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=229&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>osso buco &#8211; braised veal shanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Italian-American cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veal dishes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, my neighbor procured some veal shanks for me from a Vermont meat vendor. I placed them in the freezer and there they sat as I worked up the nerve to prepare osso buco, braised veal shanks. Giada de Laurentiis, in her cookbook Everyday Italian, titles her recipe &#8220;Easy Osso Buco,&#8221; but I surmised from the length of instructions that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=233&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>melon and prosciutto</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night, Amy and I didn&#8217;t feel like eating a full dinner so I prepared melon and prosciutto from Jacque Pepin&#8217;s cookbook Fast Food My Way. 1 ripe cantaloupe 4 tsps fresh lemon juice 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt 3/4 tsp coarsely ground black pepper 3-4 oz thinly sliced prosciutto   Jacques Pepin recommends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=216&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>turkey pot pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leftovers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bittman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bittman points out in his blog The Minimalist: THERE is something important about the question of what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers, the aftereffects not only of bounty and abundance but also — let’s face it — of overdoing it. We’ve got all this stuff, what are we going to do with it now? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=199&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the facts on soupy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appetizers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian-American cooking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sausage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Thanksgiving, my parents brought some soupy from Westerly, Rhode Island. Soupy, or sopressata, is a rustic, usually home-made, sausage that is a local specialty in southern Rhode Island and southeatern Connecticut. It is made from pork, salt, paprika, black pepper, and red pepper and is air cured for four-to-twelve weeks. Here&#8217;s a great description [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=206&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>vanilla ice cream &#8220;drowned&#8221; in espresso</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affogato]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While cooking the turkey on Thanksgiving, I prepared affogato (&#8220;drowned&#8221;) for my houseguests. I usually serve this as a dessert after a hearty Italian-American meal, but it was also great in the middle of the day in between basting and chopping. I found the recipe in Giada de Laurentiis&#8217; cookbook Everyday Italian. To prepare, you will need the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=180&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>candied pumpkin, eggplant, fig &amp; apricot in amman, jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arabic Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the last three days on a short business trip in Amman, Jordan. On the first night in town, I went to one of my favorite restaurants, Deir El Qamar, a Lebanese restaurant with a great menu and superb service. They provide an unusual selection of candied fruits  as a dessert &#8211; candied pumpkin, eggplant (which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=174&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>serving roasted cornish hens with balsamic glaze, roasted root vegetables, and sauteed radishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Carpenter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I served roasted Cornish hens with balsamic glaze, roasted root vegetables, and sauteed radishes with their greens. All three recipes came from Lidia Bastianich&#8217;s cookbook Lidia&#8217;s Italian American Kitchen and I prepared all three dishes exactly as she recommends. This was a memorable Autumn meal and all three dishes come highly recommended. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5lbsplum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10140644&amp;post=157&amp;subd=5lbsplum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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