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		<description><![CDATA[A. let me borrow a few Irish cookbooks, so I decided to explore my (imagined) inner Irish &#8211; or just a little Irish cooking &#8211; over spring break.  I made some Irish stew and soda bread for dinner one night. I figured it was a classic combination that would make a good introduction to Irish food. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=268&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you just gotta get away, even if it&#8217;s just for a day.   School is starting up for me again on Monday and don&#8217;t feel I&#8217;ve had any sort of break this one week in between quarters.  I needed to take desperate measures to think I&#8217;ve had some sort of vacation before I go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=257&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s just sometime about cooking dinner for others that melts away my stresses in life (for a moment) like few other activities can do.  It&#8217;s the quiet work in the kitchen that culminates with warmth and good cheer around a table with friends that does wonders to smooth out the frazzled nerves and unsettled soul.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=230&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since returning to graduate school, I find myself traveling more frequently, but to cities where I never really get beyond the hotel I stay.  My trip to Denver, sadly, was no exception.  I spent four days at the Grand Hyatt and hardly got out its doors, &#8216;though there was some consolation that the Grand Hyatt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=204&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steamed dumpling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steamed deserts, or &#8220;pudding&#8221; as people on the other side of the pond say, aren&#8217;t something I do, but I became intrigued by them after a discussion with A.  Puddings were a bit of a tradition for her growing up; and she was kind enough to passed along a couple family recipes that I worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=103&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have many Christmas traditions, although I do find myself cooking and baking more, and for more people, during the holidays like many others. However, I have developed the habit of making prime rib for Christmas dinner over the past few years, which I suppose is a &#8220;tradition&#8221; of sorts since it has become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=105&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says the holidays like gingersnap cookies&#8211;I&#8217;m only in the mood for them this time of the year.   My favorite recipe is from a cookie book with a very long title, Rosie&#8217;s Bakery Chocolate-packed, Jam-filled, Butter-rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book by Judy Rosenberg.  I&#8217;ve been using it for years.  The cookie&#8217;s official name is &#8220;Molasses Ginger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=137&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve Cranberry Crostata</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It always a little risky bringing a dessert that you haven&#8217;t made before to a dinner party.  It&#8217;s most unsettling is not being sure how it tastes &#8217;til you&#8217;re eating it with everyone else at the table.  That&#8217;s my biggest concern, delivering something to please people&#8217;s palates, vs. actually making the &#8220;thing&#8221;, itself, for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=82&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian dinner in Old Town</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. is one of the first friends I made in Los Angeles.  Like me, she isn&#8217;t from LA, but came out here for graduate school and as remained in the area ever since.  She&#8217;s also a fan of Indian food and I can always count on her to suggest a &#8220;new&#8221; Indian restaurant that she&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=64&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas cookie crisis of sorts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past several years, I&#8217;ve baked cookies to give to family and friends for the holidays.  And in the last year, I&#8217;ve settled on biscotti as my Christmas cookie of choice for everyone.  Part of the reason is that it&#8217;s already a dry cookie, so it doesn&#8217;t really get stale if it&#8217;s left about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blueplatelunch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5890146&amp;post=49&amp;subd=blueplatelunch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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