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		<title>Recipe for Lamb and Shiitake Skewers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting Grainy. We have been trying to increase our intake of healthy grains, as well as leafy greens, vegetables, and fruits in general. It’s too easy to fall back on starches we love: rice, pasta, potatoes, and bread. Many years ago, we learned of farro when visiting Tuscany, and consumed quite a few bowls of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>PARIS: Something Old, Something New</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paris continues to tug at my heartstrings; it always will. Each time I arrive in Paris, I think that I will see many old favorites and be very happy doing so. Naturally, this time we did just that, and some new things too — and we had friends Jennifer and Patrick with us to share [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Coda alla Vaccinara</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Scott Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Le Signore delle Verdure. Mark and I are just back from Rome… literally yesterday. We spent three weeks in the Eternal City and, like our three weeks prior in France and Switzerland, it is never enough. But we have to come home sometime, right? And we will go back… When choosing the locations for the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Fig Cookies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simply Figgy. I had every intention of posting my recipe for Cuccidati — a festive Sicilian fig cookie — last December, but my organizational skills failed me. I promise I will get to those this fall/winter. In the meantime, there is a simpler, more summery option that I love to make when the figs are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recipe for Sausage and Red Wine Risotto</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cocoa &#38; Lavender]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Days of Wine and Risotto. I make risotto so often that I generally don’t use a recipe. On the rare occasion that I see a recipe I like and want to try, I often find myself using the recipe’s ingredients list but my standard method of making it. That is what happened with today’s recipe. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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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