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		<title>Recipe for Cinnamon Scones</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Breaking My Tradition. I have a favorite recipe for Scones. I posted it on Cocoa &#038; Lavender 14 years ago, and I’ve never made changes to it, other than varying the kinds of dried fruit I use; my favorite will always be brandy-soaked currants. I’ve shared the recipe with many friends who love these scones; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Goan Shrimp Curry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Scott Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Believe It or Not… This will be hard for most of you to believe, but I made almost zero changes to this recipe for Madhur Jaffrey’s Goan Shrimp Curry. Some of you may think that I substituted shallots for garlic, but no. Her original recipe called for shallots. The only changes I made were to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Batbout</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Another Moroccan Breakfast Treat. As I mentioned in an earlier post on Baghrir, Moroccan riad breakfasts are feasts that fill you up and prepare you for a full day of adventure. Each morning, the spread was just a bit different, though there were consistencies: freshly squeezed orange juice, housemade yoghurt, and coffee, mint tea, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Italian Cookies: A Cookbook Review, Recipe, and Giveaway</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Scott Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Smart Cookie. Imagine your dream job. Are you an astronaut catapulting through space? Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist? Or are you a cookie researcher in Italy, traveling from town to town collecting the best cookie recipes from each region? I know that I would choose the third one… as did Domenica Marchetti, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Sachertorte</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Obsessed at an Early Age. I spent the summer of 1980 in, Germany, playing in the orchestra for the  Schloẞfestspiele, an opera festival in the courtyard of the Heidelberg castle. I guess you could say it was my “study abroad” experience but it was more a paid internship. Not a bad summer gig for a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Œufs en Meurette</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Scott Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eating (Well) like Peasants. There is a quote from food writer Michael Pollan: “French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So much of the food that we think of as elite didn’t start out that way.”  Today’s dish is exactly that. Œufs en Meurette is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Zuppa Inglese</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An International Incident. One sunny day in Rome, Mark and I went to the local boutique of the Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, described in last week’s post. I’d previously bought a bottle of Alkermes there, and – based on that one – now make my own. I returned to get another bottle of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Alkermes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No “K” in the Italian Alphabet. At the turn of the century (I love saying that), Mark and I visited Tuscany with a group of friends. We rented a large farmhouse in Fiano, a village in the hills north of San Gimignano. One of our group, well traveled in Tuscany, insisted that our day trip [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Scallop Fried Rice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Building Blocks. Putting together a stir fry or, in this case, fried rice, is a process similar to using building blocks as a kid. You just keep adding to your creation until it’s just right. Sometimes, a couple of blocks are all you need; at other times, you keep adding until you run out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Roasted Salmon, Meyer Lemon-Thyme Beurre Blanc</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Scott Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[meyer lemon beurre blanc]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wild Thing. I have to be honest. I have never (until very recently) been a fan of wild salmon. Of course, I know all the downsides of farmed salmon, and I try to make the best choices by buying Norwegian or Scottish salmon. However, I know all the health benefits of wild salmon, as well, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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