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		<title>Nine reasons to get psyched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still new enough to farming that almost every part of it is exciting. But today was an exceptionally awesome day at the farm. 1. Baby carrots! 2. Baby beans! 3. Baby melons! 4. Baby heirloom tomatoes! 5. Baby butternut squash! 6. Baby broccoli! 7. Baby cucumber! 8. Ready-to-make-a-baby popcorn! 9. And finally, the height [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/nine-reasons-to-get-psyched/</link>
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		<title>Brown Sugar Ice Cream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Successful ice cream making requires two things. Most importantly, you need a basic formula that respects the science of tiny delicious ice crystals. Secondly, you need some ballsy ideas about what flavors will work &#8212; like Kate&#8217;s wildly successful bacon ice cream. Not that brown sugar is particularly ballsy. But it *is* particularly good. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/brown-sugar-ice-cream/</link>
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		<title>Chard Quiche &amp; Arugula Pesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s dinner was quite late, but fancy as heck. I had planned on (finally) making blackberry pie, but after I finished making the crust I realized that the berries had been sitting in the fridge far too long. After a fruitless search online for chocolate pie recipes that use cocoa powder, no evaporated milk, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/chard-quiche-arugula-pesto/</link>
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		<title>Lessons learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farming has got to be one of the least defined career paths out there. You can go to school for it, you can grow up with it, but you certainly don&#8217;t have to do either. Still, I can&#8217;t imagine many farmers out there have gone about it in such a backwards fashion as me. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/lessons-learned/</link>
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		<title>The Waffle Making Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wake up, decide it is a day for glory and waffles. Wonder why you don&#8217;t make waffles more often. Dig out the recipe, waffle iron, three bowls, whisk, and spatula. Perform alchemy. Pour batter into waffle iron. Anxiously wait 5, 10, or 15 minutes for the steam to stop. Extract undercooked/burnt/ripped-in-half waffle. Repeat steps 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/the-waffle-making-process/</link>
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		<title>Barley &amp; mushroom pilaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I hated barley until I actually tried it. Chris and I have been hooked on it for a couple weeks. Delicious! And, dare I say, nutritious. The trick to making barley tasty and not mushy is rocking the pilaf. Instead of a sticky, health-foody mess o glop, you get lovely little individual grains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/barley-mushroom-pilaf/</link>
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		<title>Corn-sage biscuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it great when a baking experiment turns out well? These biscuits aren&#8217;t as flaky as your standard all-flour biscuits, but the flavor is unbeatable. Slather &#8216;em with butter while they&#8217;re still hot, and top with poached eggs, herby beans, or a nice thick gravy. Ingredients 1 C cornmeal (I use medium-ground, but anything finer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/corn-sage-biscuits/</link>
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		<title>Farm Diary: Day #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(A quick update: I left my job at that other farm last week, and after a few days of downtime, have started farming on a little almost-quarter-acre field on my friend Ernie&#8217;s property.) Today I: finished double-digging my first 5&#8242; x 20&#8242; bed. Heck yeah John Jeavons! (233 minutes) set up my garden hose for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/farm-diary-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Cardamom Ice Cream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my mom and brother up this last weekend, and Saturday night I cooked them the nicest meal I could muster. (Well, my mom helped a lot &#8212; she even peeled a box of fava beans, which is no small feat.) We had fava bean soup full of olive oil and tasty herbs, creamy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/cardamom-ice-cream/</link>
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		<title>Creamy Pesto Couscous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been in the mood for quick, easy, one-bowl dinners. It feels like cheating, especially when I skip the veggies and protein completely, like I did with this dish tonight. But sometimes this sort of comfort food really hits the spot. I&#8217;ll eat vegetables tomorrow. Tonight, I want to drown in creamy pesto sauce. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/creamy-pesto-couscous/</link>
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		<title>Leftover Soup Soufflé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t have a microwave, there&#8217;s no such thing as boring leftovers. That&#8217;s my theory, anyways. The reasoning goes like this: if reheating means you&#8217;ll have to dirty a pan, you might as well add a little something &#8212; some butter, some garlic, maybe a sauce. Really, you might as well go all-out. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/leftover-soup-souffle/</link>
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		<title>Beet-Couscous Pilaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ingredients 1 T butter 4 small beets, cut into smallish bite-size pieces &#189; C broth or water 2 T butter &#190; C couscous 1&#188; C boiling broth or water salt greens from 4 beets, cut into strips (substitute 1 or 2 red Swiss chard leaves if your beets are green-less) In a small to medium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/beet-couscous-pilaf/</link>
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		<title>What to do with an acre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If everything unfolds the way we&#8217;re hoping, by the end of spring Chris and I will be renting an acre of farmland in Petaluma from our favorite bartender. There&#8217;s still a bit of iffiness to that if, but &#8230; well, that&#8217;s not going to stop me from dreaming. I&#8217;ve been reading Gene Logsdon&#8217;s Small Scale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/what-to-do-with-an-acre/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye, sweet cabin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re moving on Tuesday. Our boss/landlord was making noises about how we might want to start looking for a new place to live, and I wasn&#8217;t prepared to wait and see if they&#8217;d really use the &#8220;72 hour notice&#8221; clause in our employee housing agreement. The new place is a cute little duplex in Penngrove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/goodbye-sweet-cabin/</link>
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		<title>Turnip faux-sotto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turnips: the sweet, buttery underdogs of the root vegetables. Seriously, get some well grown ones and give &#8216;em a try. Sooooo goooood. Ingredients 4 small-medium turnips, with greens 2 T butter 1/2 t paprika salt 2 C leftover brown rice 1/3 C white wine 1/4 cup grated aged manchego or gran pecorino or some other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2010/turnip-bottoms-and-tops-with-cheesey-winey-rice/</link>
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		<title>Better Than Grandma&#8217;s Pecan Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pecan pie is one of the few dishes my mom&#8217;s family serves at every single holiday dinner. It was also one of the first recipes I got to help with; when I was little, my mom and I would arrange the pecan halfs on the empty pie shell, carefully resisting the temptation to press them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2009/better-than-grandmas-pecan-pie/</link>
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		<title>Silly birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Boys Own Book of Outdoor Sports A wild turkey trap is made by first digging a ditch; then over one end is built a rude structure of logs, covered at the top. The structure should not be tight, but, of course, sufficiently close not to let the birds through. Indian corn is scattered about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2009/silly-birds/</link>
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		<title>Braised/Glazed Beets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a hard time believing that there are people in the world who don&#8217;t like beets. BEETS ARE AMAZING. Recently I&#8217;ve been braising beets, and it always turns out so goddamn good. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s the high sugar content of these precious roots that makes it so special &#8212; when you reduce the cooking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2009/singing-the-praises-of-braised-beets/</link>
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		<title>Peck of pickled produce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just made seven pints of spicy pickled carrots with wild fennel, and I&#8217;ve got a box of rhubarb waiting to be preserved in syrup tomorrow. Setting aside some of the harvest is a big part of eating locally, and it&#8217;s fun! I&#8217;ve hardly done any preserving before, but now that we&#8217;re past the peak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2009/peck-of-pickled-produce/</link>
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		<title>Introducing Lazy Fox Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our farm is underway. Just about a year ago, Chris and I left San Francisco to begin our farming adventure. It amazes me to think of our mindset back then; we were sick and tired of working crappy jobs that barely paid the rent for our equally crappy basement apartment, so we took off. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fwegan.com/blog/2009/introducing-lazy-fox-farm/</link>
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