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		<title>Pickles, Bananas and New Recipes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, finally, pickling cucumbers and fresh dill are available at the farmers&#8217; market. I bought 6 cucumbers and they fit perfectly into one of the quart jars that came with my new canning kit. I added some garlic, peppercorns, tumeric and coriander seeds. We&#8217;ll see how it turns out! They lovely jar is sitting on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=370&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Week&#8217;s Recipes: July 3rd, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this past week I wanted to start small and ease into the idea of planning ahead for meals and shopping and spending some quality time with the cookbooks on my kitchen shelf.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=367&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recipes Are Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the last few weeks, I have been doing a bit of a spring cleaning.. of the mind! For many months I was having trouble commiting to the effort of cooking on a regular basis. I was even having a bit of a block when thinking about what to make so, for the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=361&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favorite things about San Francisco&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Cesar Chavez Day,  a California state holiday and luckily, a day I did not have to go into work. I love having weekdays off and I decided to take an early morning walk. As I was wandering around, I saw many of the things that remind me of why I really love San Francisco.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=357&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What, Where, Why and How?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent conversations with others have made me think again about why I decided to start this blog and naturally that led me to think about where I was, where I am now and of course where I'd like to be.  When I started writing here in 2007,  my life was quite a bit different. I was starting over again in many ways due to the end of a relationship, the end of running a business, and the brink of financial disaster.  Running a small business was one of the most challenging and stressful situations I have ever been in (and not one that I intend to repeat) but working for myself did give me the opportunity to do things like teach myself to be a better cook than my mother and go to events and farmers' markets on days when I would normally be working if I'd had another job - not to mention time to read and do other interesting things while I was working from home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=352&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accidental Christmas Soup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I haven&#8217;t written much over the last few months. I haven&#8217;t felt like I have had the energy to do much else other than sleep and work. We&#8217;d been looking forward to the lack of Holiday plans this year, but I do find it difficult to turn down an opportunity to feed people. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=348&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food &amp; Farm Update &#8211; Fall 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garden: Oddly enough, the Marvel Stripe tomatoes keep appearing even though I have stopped watering the plant and it is half dead. A couple weeks ago I collected all of the green tomatoes from the plant and have been pickling them &#8211; but I will talk about that a bit later. The herbs are still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=346&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Osessives: Urban Farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Market Photo Diary</title>
		<link>http://mindfulindividual.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/market-photo-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying something new. Last week I took a photograph of everything that I had purchased at the farmers' market. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to do this each week.  Though I forgot to upload the photos last week - and had to take two photos because I forgot to empty all of my bags!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=339&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So those people at RenFaire were right?</title>
		<link>http://mindfulindividual.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/so-those-people-at-renfaire-were-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had watched Episode 10: "The Good Ol' Days" from Penn &#38; Teller: Bullshit which reminded me of something I had read just a few days before about the changes that took place in European cuisine after the New World was encountered by Columbus. In "The Good Ol' Days" Penn &#38; Teller discuss the cultural nostalgia of the Renaissance Faire with James Given, professor of Medieval History at U.C. Irvine who states "If you go to Renaissance Fair and you see someone gnawing away om a turkey leg that certainly has no real baring on reality. There were no turkeys in the middle ages." But wait, isn't this the Renaissance Faire?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfulindividual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1784287&amp;post=335&amp;subd=mindfulindividual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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