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		<title>New Years Eve Quartet of Entertaining Spreads</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I’m late for New Year’s Eve, but I didn’t finish these four spreads until just now. Where oh where did the week go?  

Nevertheless, I want to share them with you in hope that perhaps you can whip up one or two for tomorrow’s gatherings of friends and family around that big screen TV. They are all very easy and you probably have the needed ingredients in the frig. Well, maybe not the cold-smoked salmon, but if there is a Trader Joe’s nearby, they have a 4-ounce package for a modest price.
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I know I’m late for New Year’s Eve, but I didn’t finish these four spreads until just now. Where oh where did the week go?  And only two hours until 2010!
Nevertheless, I want to share these with you in hope that perhaps you can whip up one or two for tomorrow’s gatherings of friends and [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Cup of Spicy Christmas Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the smell of aromatic spices in the house. I love inhaling warm wafts of spicy goodness while cradling a cup of hot tea in both hands. Comfort is the word that comes to mind, but an elemental comfort that is hard to describe. At these moments, I know in the deepest way that no matter what is appearing in my life, all is somehow, inexplicably, as it should be and thus perfect. This feeling sometimes runs counter to all logic, and yet there it is as I sip my spicy mulled tea.]]></description>
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I can’t imagine a cold, wet, interminably grey Northwest winter without the comfort of hot tea with mulling spices. And when it snows, this daily ritual takes on an almost magical significance.
I love the smell of aromatic spices in the house. I love inhaling warm wafts of spicy goodness while cradling a cup of hot tea [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Panforte di LunaCafe: Tis the Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dried fruit and nut laden Christmas specialty of Siena, Italy, panforte (pronounced pan-FOHR-teh; variously called Panpepeto, Siena Cake, Panforte di Siena, Panforte Nero, and Panforte Margherita) is often described as a type of fruitcake. To call it a cake of any type, however, is, well, misleading. It doesn’t fit my definition of a cake.

It also reminds me nothing of Lebkuchen, a German gingerbread-type cookie, which it is also said to resemble, probably due to the inclusion of honey and warm winter spices in both. But no, it’s not a cookie.
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A dried fruit and nut laden Christmas specialty of Siena, Italy, panforte (pronounced pan-FOHR-teh; variously called Panpepeto, Siena Cake, Panforte di Siena, Panforte Nero, and Panforte Margherita) is often described as a type of fruitcake. To call it a cake of any type, however, is, well, misleading. It doesn’t fit my definition of a cake.
It [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cornmeal, Black Pepper &amp; Rosemary Butter Cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan S. Bradley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several weeks of nearly non-stop, high-intensity cookie baking, I present you with the final cookie of this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Starry Night bake-a-thon. TA DA! 

In the kick off post, I set the stage for this completely new collection of cookies, most of which break rather dramatically from the traditional holiday cookies of my childhood. I really wanted to push my understanding of what makes a remarkable and thus memorable Christmas cookie. I wanted to try new and exciting flavor and texture combinations. I wanted to stretch myself as a baker. As I say in the Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Starry Night kick off post, I intended to throw tradition to the proverbial wind this holiday season.
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On the twelfth day of Christmas … my true love gave to me … Cornmeal, Black Pepper &amp; Rosemary Butter Cookies.
After several weeks of nearly non-stop, high-intensity cookie baking, I present you with the final cookie of this year’s Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Starry Night bake-a-thon. TA DA!
In the kick off post, I set [...]]]></content:encoded>
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