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	<title>Confessions of a Shortcut Chef: A Cooking and Recipe Blog</title>
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		<title>Wife Soup (Or, &#8220;How&#8217;s the Sickie?&#8221; Quick Chicken Noodle Soup)</title>
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CONFESSION: Chicken soup is reserved only for when I&#8217;m sick. Much like 7-up and flat coca-cola, chicken soup just tastes like being sick to me when I&#8217;m healthy. I feel pretty much the same for all chicken broth-based soups. Conversely, when I&#8217;m not feeling well, there&#8217;s nothing better.
I prefer to make this with a whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;LIKE&#8221; Me on Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a ShortcutChef fan? Like me at my new Facebook page and get regular updates when I post a new recipe or meal idea! 

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		<title>Vegan Vietnamese Pho (with Optional Beef)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been curious about Vietnamese food ever since I developed a crush on Spike Mendelsohn when he was a contestant on Top Chef. The promise of a mix of spicy and sweet intrigued me, but I never got around to trying Vietnamese food until recently when Chicago&#8217;s Big Pho opened up a branch near my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinach Vodka Sauce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I came dangerously close to choosing a jarred sauce to pair with the lobster ravioli we splurged on at The Pasta Shoppe in Oak Park. I had the jar of alfredo all ready to go, and while I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have loved it (Bertolli Alfredo may not be authentic, but it&#8217;s divine), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irv &amp; Shelly&#8217;s Fresh Picks… and their wondrous produce</title>
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We&#8217;re not saving any money by joining a produce delivery service. Buying local and organic is hella expensive, and it&#8217;s even more expensive to have a Fresh Picks Double Box delivered to our door farm-fresh (or damn near it) every other week. That said, signing up for deliveries from Irv &#38; Shelly&#8217;s Fresh Picks is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow Chard with Caramelized Onions, Shallots and Clementines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had never tried rainbow chard before, so I didn&#8217;t know what to expect when I got a huge bunch of it in my CSA delivery. Luckily, Mark Bittman&#8217;s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian came to my rescue.
I&#8217;ve loved the original How to Cook Everything for years, so when my husband and I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Back!</title>
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A lot has changed at ShortcutChef in the last 6 months!! We&#8217;ve moved to a new, beautiful house with a fabulous gourmet kitchen. We&#8217;re celebrating Meatless Mondays and going vegetarian every Monday, and, most importantly, now that we&#8217;re settled in this fabulous place I&#8217;m cooking more often!! I&#8217;m going to share some of my creations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuffed Pork Chop with Pear/Carrot Stuffing and Butternut Squash Soup</title>
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When I bought the pork chops from Costco, I thought they were stacked two deep in the package. What I found when I opened the package was beautiful, impossibly thick chops that were begging to be stuffed.
QUICK TIP: StoveTop Stuffing is boring and salty on its own, but bulk it up with carrots, pears or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meatless Monday: Quorn &#8220;Chicken Parm&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So let&#8217;s talk a little bit about Quorn. I know I&#8217;ve sung it&#8217;s praises before, but since my husband and I started doing Meatless Mondays we&#8217;ve used it as an excuse to try more of their delicious soy-free, meat-free products.
The Gruyere Chik&#8217;n Cutlets made the most phenomenal &#8220;chicken parm&#8221; (although it lacked both actual chicken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meatless Monday: Chiles Rellenos</title>
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CONFESSION: I really want a Mexican grandmother. I make outstanding Mexican food, if I do say so myself. I&#8217;m incredibly comfortable with the flavor profiles, but there are some dishes — some of my favorite dishes — that I just can&#8217;t tackle. Chiles rellenos, stuffed peppers, and tamales, are the ones best taught, I figure, [...]]]></description>
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