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		<title>Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day~Whole Grain Master Recipe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I really missed when eating gluten-free for 3 weeks was freshly baked bread. I&#8217;m used to baking my own bread a few times a week using the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (ABin5) method so of course one of the first things I did when done with the cleanse diet was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beet, Leek and Goat Cheese Tart</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/11/18/beet-leek-and-goat-cheese-tart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I was talking to a friend the other day and she was relating to me her single girl dating angst; she&#8217;s seeing two different guys. One was &#8220;hot, but a project&#8221;, and the other was &#8220;cute, but not self assured enough.&#8221; In other words, he was the dreaded &#8220;too nice&#8221; guy.   Considering she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butternut Squash Soup with Pancetta and Pomegranate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in my favorite market last week in the middle of a produce buying frenzy (I hadn&#8217;t cooked for a while) when I had a flashback to college which froze me in my tracks. No, not that kind of flashback. What brought me back to the mid eighties, was a stack of ruby colored fruit and suddenly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Dinner Really Is Just This Simple</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/10/31/sometimes-dinner-really-is-just-this-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the title and the photo speaks for itself, no? Salami, cheese (soft goat cheese, cave aged Gruyere and a sharp white cheddar), olives, mom&#8217;s home smoked salmon and some marinated artichokes. Add to that a loaf of freshly baked bread (buy it or make it yourself) and a good bottle of wine and you have a meal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Basic Marinara Sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/09/01/how-to-make-basic-marinara-sauce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are as many recipes for tomato pasta sauce as there are Italian grandmothers. My Sicilian grandmother used to make her sauce every year from the tomatoes in her garden. Much of the time the sauce had meat in it but I don&#8217;t think it was ever exactly the same twice.  A child of the depression, my grandmother would throw into the pot whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grilled Eggplant and Zucchini Parmesan</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/08/24/grilled-eggplant-and-zucchini-parmesan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My very first job in a restaurant kitchen was as the pastry chef for a small mom-and-pop Italian restaurant. How I got that job with no experience is a story for another day. But after working there for about 6 months, I moved to working on the hot line part time. One of my responsibilities was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Peel and Seed Fresh Tomatoes</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/08/20/how-to-peel-and-seed-fresh-tomatoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my garden, I really do. And I think the fresh tomatoes were quite possibly the best thing about it. But late in the season, due to some insects eating the leaves and the blazing summer sun, I got some really ugly tomatoes. These were not the picture perfect ones seen in previous posts, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed Zucchini with Italian Sausage</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/08/11/stuffed-zucchini-with-italian-sausage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for printable recipe I have another confession. I don&#8217;t love vegetables. Odd, because I have a garden, right? I like them enough, some more than others, but I don&#8217;t think I could ever be a vegetarian. And zucchini? Well, let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m learning to love it. But I have this garden, into which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Fresh Tomato Soup</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/08/02/how-to-make-fresh-tomato-soup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download print version of recipe There comes a time in the lifespan of every summer garden when the gardener has the delicious dilemma of what to do with a bounty of fresh tomatoes, all ripe at the same time. Besides making sauce, eating endless plates of Caprese salad, and freezing the tomatoes for later use, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bread and Wine; Girl&#039;s Night Out &quot;How to Bake Bread&quot; Class</title>
		<link>http://www.formerchef.com/2009/06/22/bread-and-wine-girls-night-out-how-to-bake-bread-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>formerchef</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for Printable Recipe One night, I posted on Twitter; &#8220;Dinner: Homemade bread, toasted, with butter and a Paso Robles Zinfandel. Yep that&#8217;s it. Nothin&#8217; wrong with that is there?&#8221; A friend of mine quickly replied that it sounded good to her, and I suggested I show her and some other friends how easy [...]]]></description>
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