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		<title>howdy, strangers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy.  A week after my new kitchen was finished, so was the baby I&#8217;d been baking. He&#8217;s six months old now, and although I&#8217;ve had time to write posts, I haven&#8217;t had the energy!
To try to get myself back into the groove, I am going to tweet the dinners I cook.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New kitchen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before&#8230;and after.  The comparison shots aren&#8217;t quite fair, because very little was back into the kitchen when I took the &#8220;after&#8221; photo &#8212; but keep in mind that in the &#8220;before&#8221; photo, everything is put away, except for the contents of the dish drainer!  That is what the kitchen looked like scrubbed clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/06/09/new-kitchen/</link>
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		<title>A well-spent $6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things we bought when we bought our house was a Weber kettle grill; we had visions of steaks and burgers and skewers of vegetables on hot summer evenings, with cool beer to wash everything down.  
After a while, we got more ambitious: let&#8217;s grill a leg of lamb!  Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/06/08/a-well-spent-6/</link>
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		<title>Apple muffin bread puddings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made some apple muffins to use up some aging apples &#8212; just put chunks of apples and some spices into a generic plain muffin recipe, and topped them with turbinado sugar.  We ate some muffins for breakfasts for a few days, and then got bored and forgot about them.
A week later, I pulled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/05/14/apple-muffin-bread-puddings/</link>
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		<title>Israeli couscous with cinnamon &amp; bay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israeli couscous is a larger-sized couscous that looks a little bit like pearl barley.  It is toasted, which some people think gives it a nutty flavor; to me, it tastes faintly sweet more than nutty.  It makes a great summer salad, but I like to serve it warm in all seasons.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/04/29/israeli-couscous-with-cinnamon-bay/</link>
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		<title>In the time of no kitchen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve used a microwave cart, our old kitchen table, and the big wooden cutting board across the stove burners to cobble together a workspace for the next few weeks.  We have a microwave, a toaster, an electric kettle, an espresso machine, and an electric skillet.
As I was making tonight&#8217;s dinner (watercress salad with goat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/04/22/in-the-time-of-no-kitchen/</link>
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		<title>Kitchen demolition panic time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Carnival.  I&#8217;m 7 months pregnant.  And Monday, demolition starts on our old kitchen, to make way for the new one.  Our new water heater gets installed Monday, as well.
The dumpster will fit in the driveway. I&#8217;m frantically clearing the basement and the dining room to make way for the things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/04/17/kitchen-demolition-panic-time/</link>
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		<title>Quick coconut chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When planning this week&#8217;s meals, I had leftover channa masala to use up &#8212; but not enough for a dinner on its own.  It needed either a side, or to be a side.
I also had boneless skinless chicken breasts in the house; I almost never have these since we get most of our chicken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/03/16/quick-coconut-chicken/</link>
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		<title>So where do I get pomegranate molasses, anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the recipes in my last post called for pomegranate molasses.  Depending on where you live, this might be annoying to find.  Here are some options!

If you have a local Middle Eastern grocery or deli, check there.  Mine is the Alwadi brand.  Sometimes, other brands are called pomegranate syrup.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/03/12/so-where-do-i-get-pomegranate-molasses-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Ghalieh-ya kadoo &amp; khoresht-e fesenjan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last week of February, I bought a butternut squash, but it didn&#8217;t end up in my menu planning for that week.  I put it into the next week, and wanted to do something new and fun with it.  Fortunately, Nat and I had recently purchased a Persian cookbook, Persian Cooking, by Nesta [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2009/03/11/ghalieh-ya-kadoo-khoresht-e-fesenjan/</link>
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