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		<title>Pucker Up!  A Dozen Yumm-O Lemon Recipes</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/15/pucker-up-a-dozen-yumm-o-lemon-recipes/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/15/pucker-up-a-dozen-yumm-o-lemon-recipes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fruits & Nuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in sunny So Cal, citrus grows everywhere. Farms and fields, front and side yards, pots on porches, stairways and terraces. We planted our tree in Y2K following our major home remodel. I’m the tree trimmer and keep it just a little taller than Larry. It took some years to become prolific but now… Got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mango Avocado Salad ~ &#8220;Food, Fast&#8221; Is Much Better Than &#8220;Fast Food&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/09/mango-avocado-salad-food-fast-is-much-better-than-fast-food/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/09/mango-avocado-salad-food-fast-is-much-better-than-fast-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Salads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swear on a stack of bibles, I’m not sucking up to sponsors from Camp Blogaway. We ended our Camp with a HUGE supply of goodies, some ripening quickly. Today, I whipped up lunch in five minutes, made a pretty picture, then sat on the porch swing and savored my fresh Mango Avocado Salad. Until this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Glazed Lemon Corncakes</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/01/mini-glazed-lemon-corncakes/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/05/01/mini-glazed-lemon-corncakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cakes & Cupcakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fruits & Nuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[glaze]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Moly, these Mini Glazed Lemon Corncakes are fab!! {TWO exclamation points.} Dense, moist, lemony, sweet. Here’s the brainstorm… first, a too-large bag of cornbread mix in the pantry, left over from Easter. Next, lemon tree, loaded with fruit. I was on my 3-mile Sunday walk (good girl), pondering cooking (natch). There HAD to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit LA&#8217;s Idea of Country ~ Ojai</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/24/visit-las-idea-of-country-ojai/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/24/visit-las-idea-of-country-ojai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ojai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s say you’re hitting the wall. You need to be somewhere quiet. Somewhere to think, breathe, sleep. Maybe you need to be alone, a solo traveler. Or, the two of you crave de-stressing. If you’re located somewhere between Orange County and Santa Barbara, choose Ojai. From Westwood, go North on 405, then North on Hwy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ziplines, Bridges, Rappels&#8211;What To Gift A Guy Who Has Pretty Much Everything</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/20/ziplines-bridges-rappelswhat-to-gift-a-guy-who-has-pretty-much-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/20/ziplines-bridges-rappelswhat-to-gift-a-guy-who-has-pretty-much-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zipline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fly, Larry, fly… up up in the sky!  This day was gonna be a blast…  I was taking Larry to fly through treetops on ziplines, rappel down the sides of pines and traverse canyons via suspension bridges. All just 90 miles from our home in Westwood, CA, it&#8217;s Navitat Canopy Adventures in Wrightwood. It’s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Cooks: Yes YOU Can Make Homemade Tamales</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/16/non-cooks-yes-you-can-make-homemade-tamales/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/16/non-cooks-yes-you-can-make-homemade-tamales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beans & Legumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken, Turkey & Goose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marty, my co-volunteer at the hospital, says he doesn’t cook.  In an effort to fix that, his wife, Irma gave him a series of cooking classes taught by Fresh Food in a Flash blogger, Chef Patricia Rose. April’s class sounded like too much fun (a reasonable $40 price was the clincher to me), so Larry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count The Silver ~ A Post-Party Tip</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/10/count-the-silver-a-post-party-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/10/count-the-silver-a-post-party-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silverware]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a bride and hosted my first extended family party, my mother-in-law offered to help clean up – did I want her to “count the silver?” Shocked, annoyed, what an insult!  Did she REALLY think a family member would pocket a spoon?  (If you’re “in the know,” you see where this is going…) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Easter Memories and THE BEST Ham Recipe</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/05/sweet-easter-memories-and-the-best-ham-recipe/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/04/05/sweet-easter-memories-and-the-best-ham-recipe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ham, Pork & Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is AWESOME when you’re little; it was for me. And I like to think that I contributed to at least one sweet Easter memory for all the little kids in our family. I see this photo on my vanity almost every day. When we were little, mom sewed us sweet, pretty dresses. Ensembles often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Something Each Day That Scares You</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/27/do-something-each-day-that-scares-you/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/27/do-something-each-day-that-scares-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rancho La Puerta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do something each day that SCARES you?? What the heck for, you might ask? Being scared… isn’t that something to avoid at all costs? Isn’t that what you shield children from, the thing that causes angst and fear? I once heard radio psychologist, Dr. Laura Schlessinger snap at a woman in the middle of explaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Fresh Local Oysters and Clams</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/19/californias-fresh-local-oysters-and-clams/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/19/californias-fresh-local-oysters-and-clams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fish & Seafood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[road trip california]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shellfish]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://worththewhisk.com/?p=5180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Local, you read that right. At this dinner party, all the guests were intently focused on mollusks. And as I left, I wondered… was my elation the result of having consumed a fair share of aphrodisiac? Just as likely, it was the pleasure in knowing there are still ardent, romantic farmers out there. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kahlua Chocolate Chip Brownies</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/14/kahlua-chocolate-chip-brownies/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/14/kahlua-chocolate-chip-brownies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brownies, Bars & Cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chocolate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These Kahlua Chocolate Chip Brownies have been featured on Worth The Whisk before – June, 2009 to be precise.  They’re Larry’s go-to recipe, the one that made him famous by being featured in Bon Appetit magazine.  He brings them often to parties and family events. They freeze well. I have realized that some favorite recipes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangerine Upside Down Cake</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/11/tangerine-upside-down-cake/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/11/tangerine-upside-down-cake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cakes & Cupcakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ojai]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tangerine slices, I came to realize, are beautiful on a cake but I screwed up.  In order to get the bitter flavor out of the rind before I assembled this, I should have blanched the slices. I&#8217;d simply substituted them for the lemons in the Lemon Upside Down Cake recipe published in the LA Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 IACP ~ International Association of Culinary Professionals Annual Conference</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/09/2013-iacp-international-association-of-culinary-professionals-annual-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/09/2013-iacp-international-association-of-culinary-professionals-annual-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events & Presentations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) annual conference is April 10 – 13* at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center. Why am I publishing this? Because I produce Camp Blogaway, and I do my darndest to not conflict our dates with other events.  IACP is important to ME. I’ll go on record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Morrison&#8217;s Last U.S. Home ~ Stay There!</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/06/jim-morrisons-last-u-s-home-stay-there/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/03/06/jim-morrisons-last-u-s-home-stay-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Travel & Road Trips;]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Larry loves experiences, large and small. So when this hit his radar, he was all over it – you can rent Jim Morrison’s West Hollywood apartment. Where Jim and Pamela lived and fought and slept around. Their last U.S. abode before Paris… Note to non-boomers: Jim Morrison was the boozy, druggy, brilliant lead singer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asparagus and Cilantro Baked Omelet</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/28/asparagus-and-cilantro-baked-omelet/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/28/asparagus-and-cilantro-baked-omelet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breakfast & Brunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eggs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I baked up with whatever I found in the fridge that morning. Kind of a Whatever Baked Omelet &#8211; no crust, so it wasn’t a quiche.  Frittata? Whatever! It’s just eggs, milk, cheese, asparagus and cilantro. Early in my career, we home economists and food marketing execs bemoaned the fact that fewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously, Patti&#8230; Take A Hike</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/24/seriously-patti-take-a-hike/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/24/seriously-patti-take-a-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rancho La Puerta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hiking is not the same as walking; that revelation dawned on me at Rancho La Puerta. Gad, I sound like a bubble-brain, but there aren’t that many opportunities to hike in my routine. And I know you’re thinking, “Gee Patti, there are plenty of hiking trails nearby.” Santa Monica mountains are visible from my home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Ingredient Guacamole Recipe of Rancho La Puerta</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/20/the-secret-ingredient-guacamole-recipe-of-rancho-la-puerta/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/20/the-secret-ingredient-guacamole-recipe-of-rancho-la-puerta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appetizers, Dips & Small Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables, Herbs & Spices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[avocado]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rancho La Puerta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A decade ago, there was an office building on my route to work that had a giant banner: a cutie pie baby with green mush on his face and the proclamation, “Give Peas A Chance.”  THAT is a fun foodie message. And now, it’s come full circle to my time at Rancho La Puerta when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saut&#233;ed Chard with Garlic and Lemon ~ a Rancho La Puerta Cooking Class</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/15/sauted-chard-with-garlic-and-lemon-a-rancho-la-puerta-cooking-class/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/15/sauted-chard-with-garlic-and-lemon-a-rancho-la-puerta-cooking-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the alarm went off at 5:30 AM on Day 2 of our Rancho La Puerta stay, I silently hoped the night’s rain was still falling. Our casita was soooo cozy. Nope, the sky was clear. Travel buddy, Cathi and I had 30 minutes to get to the meeting place for sunrise and a 4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Heard of Rancho La Puerta?</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/11/have-you-heard-of-rancho-la-puerta/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/11/have-you-heard-of-rancho-la-puerta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mexican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rancho La Puerta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My New Yorker friend, Miriam, was the one who told me that Rancho La Puerta is the “gold standard” of spas. She’d spent a week there a few years ago. I was surprised that an adventure traveler such as her would pick a “spa” as a vacation destination, let alone one at the opposite corner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mocha Scone Nibbles</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/07/mocha-scone-nibbles/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/07/mocha-scone-nibbles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breads & Biscuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biscuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakfast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brunch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mocha]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Itty bitty Mocha Scone Nibble. You are making a 1-inch x 1-inch x 1.5 inch isosceles triangle of a scone. I’m giving you my ICING recipe, and pointing you to the scone recipe on the King Arthur Flour website for their step-by-step photo tutorial. Don’t be scared, it’s not hard. But it takes a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Shepherd&#8217;s Pie ~ Idaho Potatoes + Bloggers = True Love for Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/01/western-shepherds-pie-idaho-potatoes-bloggers-true-love-for-valentines-day/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/02/01/western-shepherds-pie-idaho-potatoes-bloggers-true-love-for-valentines-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicken, Turkey & Goose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chili & Stews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chili]]></category>
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		<title>Chicken with Olives and Lemons</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/26/chicken-with-olives-and-lemons/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/26/chicken-with-olives-and-lemons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicken, Turkey & Goose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lemon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a dark and stormy night. Well, truth is, it was a sloppy wet January Monday afternoon; we aren’t used to rain here so we make a big thing out of it in LA. And rain makes me want to cook. Chicken with Olives and Lemons was my plan, using edibles from the yard. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potato Crusted Onion and Cilantro Quiche with a Cuban Touch&#8211;Bijol!</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/23/potato-crusted-onion-and-cilantro-quiche-with-a-cuban-touchbijol/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/23/potato-crusted-onion-and-cilantro-quiche-with-a-cuban-touchbijol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pastry, Pies & Tarts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables, Herbs & Spices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bijol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cilantro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 3:30 PM, Sunday afternoon. Neither lunchtime nor dinnertime. I’d spent the morning packing meals at Project Angel Food. Came home and took a 3 mile walk. Football on the TV. The house has a chill – all good reasons to turn on the oven.  A Potato Crusted Onion and Cilantro Quiche idea “showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armadillo Sighting in Beverly Hills</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/19/armadillo-sighting-in-beverly-hills/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/19/armadillo-sighting-in-beverly-hills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[los angeles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelinos (and frequent visitors)…  Does this armadillo look familiar? Surprise! It’s part of a Route 66 art installation on Santa Monica Blvd. between Century City and the 405 freeway. Technically NOT Beverly Hills, but a stone’s throw away.  Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California is Route 66. Here are 11 things I learned: In 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating &amp; Drinking in Cuba ~ Good Eats But Pack a Bottle of Hot Sauce</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/15/eating-drinking-in-cuba-good-eats-but-pack-a-bottle-of-hot-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/15/eating-drinking-in-cuba-good-eats-but-pack-a-bottle-of-hot-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The food in Cuba is not so good,” said a friend who’s been.  Liar!!  I found plenty of awesome eats and washed it all down with copious amounts of rum. Here’s my photo gallery of eating in Cuba. Beans, rice, chicken, beef, lobster, shrimp, soup, salad, fruit, ice cream, eggs, pasta, pizza, ham, pork, plantains, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Cuba Has So Many Classic American Cars</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/10/why-cuba-has-so-many-classic-american-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/10/why-cuba-has-so-many-classic-american-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just returned from the island of Rum, Cigars, Great Music and Beautiful Women – Cuba. There, we got the feeling that time had somehow stopped. And it was there that we witnessed thousands of Cubans going about their daily lives, transported via late-50’s American automobiles. This collage, above, was a JOY to shoot and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Potato, Chili and Lime Soup</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/04/sweet-potato-chili-and-lime-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2012/01/04/sweet-potato-chili-and-lime-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meatless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soups & Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chili]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sweet Potato, Chili and Lime Soup is so chock-full of the good stuff, it literally burned up the immersion blender. No matter, squishing harder thru the sieve produced the chili-good results. The lime puts it over the top in my book. And that dollop of sour cream. Now that it’s the new year, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seared Scallops with Orange-Ginger Sauce</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/27/seared-scallops-with-orange-ginger-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/27/seared-scallops-with-orange-ginger-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appetizers, Dips & Small Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish & Seafood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appetizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ginger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hors d'oeuvres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sauce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seafood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If New Year’s Eve is a night when you want to cook something lovely, flavorful, but light, try Seared Scallops with Orange-Ginger Sauce. We had them as an appetizer. But over a bed of rice with baby greens for a salad,… LOVELY. The orange-ginger sauce might sound a little ???, but I am here to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saut&#233;ed Spinach with Almond Cream and Arils ~ Christmas Colored!</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/24/sauted-spinach-with-almond-cream-and-arils-christmas-colored/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/24/sauted-spinach-with-almond-cream-and-arils-christmas-colored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables, Herbs & Spices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[almond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Rich, creamy, Christmas-y! This is one gorgeous platter of Sautéed Spinach with Almond Cream and Arils. According to its source, Chef Virginia, the recipe only has 167 calories a serving. I think THAT fact makes it even more gorgeous. Nom, nom, nom. To get arils (seed sacs) out of a pomegranate, score the fruit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zucchini Cheese Tart</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/22/zucchini-cheese-tart/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/22/zucchini-cheese-tart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appetizers, Dips & Small Bites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables, Herbs & Spices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gourmet club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What an appetizer! More like an appetite-spoiler… at THIS party (Gourmet Club), the plan is to cook and eat for HOURS. How would that be possible if we started off with this flaky, cheesy, mustardy, bubbly hot Zucchini Cheese Tart?  Well, it takes conditioning. We’ve been doing our Gourmet Club now for probably four years. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chef, The Designer, The Kitchen and The Party</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/20/the-chef-the-designer-the-kitchen-and-the-party/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/20/the-chef-the-designer-the-kitchen-and-the-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ordinarily, I write here about cooking, trips and/or the antics of our Gourmet Club. But for this post, I was urged by Club Member Laura to write about the KITCHEN of our most recent dinner party, and the DESIGNER, who also happens to be in our Club. Laura is right, it doesn’t always have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Route 66 Trip ~ Days 7, 8, 9&#8230; OK, 10 &amp; 11, too</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/14/historic-route-66-trip-days-7-8-9-ok-10-11-too/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/14/historic-route-66-trip-days-7-8-9-ok-10-11-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[route 66]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m immersed in producing my way-cool slide show of our Route 66 road trip (Westwood Library, January 12, 6 PM, plus other bookings to be announced soon). Back to blogging, it was Day 7 when we started to really hightail it. With a budget of 12 days, we were NOwhere near a half-way mark in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light Molasses Cookies</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/10/light-molasses-cookies/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/10/light-molasses-cookies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brownies, Bars & Cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bloggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Larry is a crisp connoisseur. He likes cookies with crunch. He also loves when they have a spicy wallop. I prefer “al dente,” slightly soft. These Light Molasses Cookies ROCK for both of us – crisp crunchy edges, flavor that’s fairly intense. Then… right in the middle, awwww… a tender softness. Today was a holiday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Green Salad Moroccan-Inspired, Sort Of</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/07/big-green-salad-moroccan-inspired-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/07/big-green-salad-moroccan-inspired-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feed a Crowd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not claiming this to be a “Moroccan Salad.” It is a good example of how to contribute to a dinner party. Friends Chris and Patricia (she’s the chef blogger at Fresh Food in a Flash – and photographer that night) hosted. Patricia was marinating meat in “Moroccan seasonings,” so I said we’d bring salad. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Route 66 Road Trip &#8212; Days 4, 5 &amp; 6</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/01/historic-route-66-road-trip-days-4-5-6/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/12/01/historic-route-66-road-trip-days-4-5-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[route 66]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[October, 2011 Larry and I flew to Chicago, rented a car and drove Route 66 back to Santa Monica.&#160; The adventure continued, and now that we knew we were taking way too much time each day pulling over to photograph every &#34;66&#34; we saw, we agreed to hightail it and use the interstate, when necessary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gingersnap Cherry Cheesecake and Dinner Parties vs. Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/28/gingersnap-cherry-cheesecake-and-dinner-parties-vs-restaurants/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/28/gingersnap-cherry-cheesecake-and-dinner-parties-vs-restaurants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Gingersnap Cherry Cheesecake was our contribution to the party. Dinner parties, in my opinion, are so much better than restaurants. Cost, sure. But parking, pressure to eat and turn the table, not being able to talk with the whole group, the din of music and room noise. And I know how restaurants cook my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Route 66 Legend ~ Hanging With Bobby Lee at his Big Texan Steakhouse</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/18/route-66-legend-hanging-with-bobby-lee-at-his-big-texan-steakhouse/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/18/route-66-legend-hanging-with-bobby-lee-at-his-big-texan-steakhouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steak, corn, bread, salad. Just what the doctor ordered the day we rolled into Amarillo on our Route 66 road trip. You’ve seen the Big Texan Steakhouse on the Food Network, right? Man vs. Food. Or in travel books… “Home Of The Free 72 Oz. Steak!” We watched anxiously for signs of it off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kahlua Sweet Potato Pie with Kahlua Whipped Cream ~ Food Bloggers Gather to Cook and Share for Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/11/kahlua-sweet-potato-pie-with-kahlua-whipped-cream-food-bloggers-gather-to-cook-and-share-for-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/11/kahlua-sweet-potato-pie-with-kahlua-whipped-cream-food-bloggers-gather-to-cook-and-share-for-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recipe to make this autumn leaf-laced Kahlua Sweet Potato Pie with Kahlua Whipped Cream is at the bottom of this post. Seven bloggers arrived at our home for an early Thanksgiving Feast in the spirit of blogging recipes for our readers’ holiday cooking. As Project Manager, or more realistically “Micro Manager,” I instructed each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Route 66 Road Trip &#8211; Days 1, 2 &amp; 3</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/09/historic-route-66-road-trip-days-1-2-3/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/09/historic-route-66-road-trip-days-1-2-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get your motor running. Head out on the highway&#8230;. this road trip may be on your Bucket List &#8211; driving Historic Route 66 the full way.  Mapbooks, websites, chatrooms, AAA guides all confirmed &#8211; there IS NO one long Route 66 road. It&#8217;s been chopped and rerouted to smithereens over the decades.  But still, what an adventure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Route 66 Road Trip ~ Before I Post Our Journey, Lessons Learned If You Go</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/02/route-66-road-trip-before-i-post-our-journey-lessons-learned-if-you-go/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/11/02/route-66-road-trip-before-i-post-our-journey-lessons-learned-if-you-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure, Travel & Tours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shot this iconic Historic Route 66 scene on my smartphone. Larry and I live in LA; we flew to Chicago, rented a car and drove 11 days, 8 states and 2675 miles across our big country to reach end-point Santa Monica, a few miles from home. Some people have this trip on their bucket [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Tour of Wilton and My Autumn Leaves Pie Crust</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/31/our-tour-of-wilton-and-my-autumn-leaves-pie-crust/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/31/our-tour-of-wilton-and-my-autumn-leaves-pie-crust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This pie crust is brought to you by Nancy Siler and Gretchen Homan, who are helping me perfect my autumn leaves. They’re the go-to home economists for baking pretty things – they work at Wilton.  It was Day 2 of Larry’s and my Historic Route 66 road trip (posts upcoming on this). Day 1 was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Favorite Photos and Their Related Posts ~ A Roundup</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/27/a-few-favorite-photos-and-their-related-posts-a-roundup/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/27/a-few-favorite-photos-and-their-related-posts-a-roundup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography 1-0-1]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My photography skills fall between Good Camera &#60;—&#62; Lucky Shot. I’m not saying these are award-winning, just favs that bring the reader to interesting stories (in my opinion). Larry and I travel quite a bit, and exotic destinations can produce killer shots. But beauties happen right here at home, too.  Enjoy! Photo, above, is Baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite {aka Best} Recipes ~ A Roundup</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/24/my-favorite-aka-best-recipes-a-roundup/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/24/my-favorite-aka-best-recipes-a-roundup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ya Gotta Love It]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in this blog’s life, I published my go-to recipes. I know their outcome, and I cook them often. But they have fallen deep, deep, deep into the archives after years of new posts. No! Don’t get lost, my little favs! Here are my 10 go-do recipes, which means they are my family’s “best.” Glazed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Soup ~ Product Review and Celebrity Schmooze</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/18/frozen-soup-product-review-and-celebrity-schmooze/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/18/frozen-soup-product-review-and-celebrity-schmooze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity Stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[9:30 PM – I was not thirsty. That is an important observation. Just a few hours earlier, I was one of a collection of food bloggers sampling a new line of frozen soups: Bertolli Premium Meal Soups for Two. FOOD SNOB ALERT: You won’t see many packaged food product reviews on my blog. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm Egg Salad Sandwich with Provolone</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/15/warm-egg-salad-sandwich-with-provolone/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/15/warm-egg-salad-sandwich-with-provolone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eggs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This elegant restaurant lunch will be simple to replicate at home, I think. Oh wait, maybe its anchovy butter could be a challenge here. But I don’t feel bad suggesting this &#8212; I live in LA and my Warm Egg Salad Sandwich was happily consumed at San Francisco’s Il Cane Rosso – who knows when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wurstsalat ~ My Version of Swiss Sausage Salad</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/10/wurstsalat-my-version-of-swiss-sausage-salad/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/10/wurstsalat-my-version-of-swiss-sausage-salad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Salads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several years of quarterly dinners, our Gourmet Club is getting VERY creative with themes. Laura and Jeff announced the next dinner to be Swiss, as in “Fondue Party,” and gave Larry and me the salad assignment. !?!  Sure, the Swiss have salads, one on the surface looked just right, a chopped salad with plenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Coffee ~ We Saw The Movie</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/07/hot-coffee-we-saw-the-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/07/hot-coffee-we-saw-the-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ya Gotta Love It]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the lady who sued McDonald&#8217;s for millions of dollars after she spilled their hot coffee in her lap?  If you one day have the chance to see the movie Hot Coffee, I think you might find it quite worthwhile.  I now know what a Tort is&#8230; besides a yummy dessert. This is a teensy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lime &amp; Shallot Pork Chops</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/04/lime-shallot-pork-chops/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/10/04/lime-shallot-pork-chops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ham, Pork & Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever followed a new recipe only to realize {after it’s all gone} that you DIDN’T follow it properly? That’s the story of these Lime &#38; Shallot Pork Chops. Which, by the way, were totally worth it. The magazine, Diabetes Forecast, is a good one to sneak recipes out of the doctor’s office. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Kahlua Zucchini Bread</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/09/29/chocolate-kahlua-zucchini-bread/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/09/29/chocolate-kahlua-zucchini-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breads & Biscuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chocolate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of cooking up a healthy minestrone with zucchini my friend Cathi grew in her garden, I baked a boozy Chocolate Kahlua Zucchini Bread. It’s already wrapped up (minus two slices) for my upcoming weekend at Camp GetAway… definitely a grownup snack, but of course, this is a grownup getaway. There will be eighty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry Tomato Crockpot Soup</title>
		<link>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/09/26/cherry-tomato-crockpot-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://worththewhisk.com/2011/09/26/cherry-tomato-crockpot-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Worth The Whisk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meatless]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a friend hands you 100+ homegrown, very ripe cherry tomatoes, just say THANKS and grab the slow cooker. This Fresh Cherry Tomato Soup crockpot recipe is a great idea, if I do say so myself. Sure, I could have made a ton of salsa, or salads out the wazoo, but I worked for the [...]]]></description>
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