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	<title>Trifles.nl - Trifle - Sharing bread and life&#039;s little pleasures &#187; Christmas &amp; Celebrations</title>
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		<title>Things We Baked This Weekend II    &amp; A Word of Thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2009/12/22/things-we-baked-this-weekend-ii-a-word-of-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks everyone for the enthusiastic, stimulating and inspiring reactions to our first bread video (see previous posting). And also to all the people who tasted our bread this year and asked for more! and also gave very useful tips for improvement and additions. More and more we are convinced of the positive properties of good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quest for the Best Speculaas</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2009/10/02/quest-for-the-best-speculaas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like marzipan, speculaas (or speculaasjes as the individual cookies are called) is a cookie highly connected with the feast of Sinterklaas in Holland. The name speculaas has to do with the wooden molds the cookies are made in (we call it a speculaasplank, speculaas comes from the word speculum (mirror). One of the more famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brioche</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2009/01/04/brioche/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2009/01/04/brioche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bread]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I made my first real brioche. By real I mean I took the time and effort to try out a recipe that, to me, seemed the most authentic and French. For the recipe I used one of my most priced possessions for over 12 years, the book on Patisserie by the Roux brothers. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veiled Farm Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/12/13/veiled-farm-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/12/13/veiled-farm-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desserts, Sweets & Chocolates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[almonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apples]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This recipe is a classic type of trifle from the Nordic region, called &#8216;Tilslørte Bondepiker&#8217; in Norway and Tilslørede Bondepiger in Denmark (they can fight over who was first as long as they don&#8217;t hit each other over the head with the trifle, that would be wasting a lovely dessert). The original version is made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Christmas Cooking Spirit</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/12/11/the-christmas-cooking-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/12/11/the-christmas-cooking-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some helpful and not to miss suggestions to get you into the Christmas spirit! Books These books are great for inspiration, either for their recipes or for the Christmas feeling they give you: Elizabeth David&#8217;s Christmas by Elizabeth David Christmas from the Heart of the Home by Susan Branch Nigella Christmas by Nigella [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spicy Christmas Salt</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/11/23/spicy-christmas-salt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2008/11/23/spicy-christmas-salt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my new book &#8216;Nigella Christmas&#8217; finally arrived. Today the first (and who knows last) snow of the season fell. We immediately got into the Holiday spirit. We lighted the fireplace, put on some festive music and started cooking and baking and drinking hot chocolate with a little extra. Leafing through the fresh pages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Scones</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2007/12/21/christmas-scones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maison Recipes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 5 days until Christmas and the world around me is white. It&#8217;s just a little veneer of white, but it looks beautiful all the same. It has been freezing these last days and together with the fog, it has created a thin white coating on everything, including the branches of all the trees. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas Muffins</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2007/12/09/merry-christmas-muffins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2007/12/09/merry-christmas-muffins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muffins, Cakes & Pies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These festive muffins are great to bake for a Christmas morning breakfast. I especially love the moistness and the surprise, because every bite gives you a different combination of tastes and textures. I &#8216;invented&#8217; these muffins because I wanted to use my home made candied orange peel and sweet marzipan. Together with the red cranberries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Nice Blue &amp; White Little Mice</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2007/03/08/very-nice-little-blue-white-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2007/03/08/very-nice-little-blue-white-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Jane Austen&#8217;s time, cakes often had caraway seeds in them. So you can envision Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth having tea with pound cake, rout cakes or hot Bath cakes and being left with a caraway seed or two stuck between their teeth. Unless these seeds were sugar coated into candied caraway seeds! For this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And of course I made a Christmas Trifle</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/30/and-of-course-i-made-a-christmas-trifle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/30/and-of-course-i-made-a-christmas-trifle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made this not too heavy berry trifle with orange zest for the family Christmas dinner. Of course I used my Emma Bridgewater Trifle bowl, which is only perfect for these occasions. Easily filled by 6 litres of anything and pounds of precious fruit just disappearing into nowhere, I &#8216;chose&#8217; to fill it halfway but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Minute Christmas Cranberry Tip</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/25/last-minute-christmas-cranberry-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/25/last-minute-christmas-cranberry-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could not resist posting this last minute Christmas tip for (left over) cranberries. As seen on a Christmas episode of ready, steady cook, made by Scottish chef Nick Nairn. The simply delicious cranberry caramel. Make some caramel in a saucepan. When the sugar is turning into a light golden caramel, add the cranberries. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say it with Bread Sticks!</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/20/say-it-with-bread-sticks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/20/say-it-with-bread-sticks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bread]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can this be a coincidence? First I find an idea to make boring bread stick more appealing and the next day I find the perfect bread sticks! I read a Christmas interview with chef James Martin (of Saturday Kitchen fame) and when ask for a &#8216;novel canapé idea for Christmas parties&#8217;, he suggest an idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candied Orange Peel</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/19/candied-orange-peel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/19/candied-orange-peel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maison Recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muffins, Cakes & Pies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This candied orange peel is wonderful in the Christmas muffins I posted yesterday. But also great in other cakes and cookies. Or dip them in chocolate or just eat them. So do not throw away your peel and start making this simple recipe! This is how you make the candied orange peel Cut the peel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing upon a Star!</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/17/wishing-upon-a-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/12/17/wishing-upon-a-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;We&#8217;re like flames in the darkness and stars up in the sky. And I can see how they sparkle, and they fade before my eyes. and the truth is coming closer like a wonder in disguise. We are caught here for a moment like an imprint of a hand on an old and frosted window [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Tooth Sinterklaas: Making Marzipan</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/11/19/sweet-tooth-sinterklaas-making-marzipan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/11/19/sweet-tooth-sinterklaas-making-marzipan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desserts, Sweets & Chocolates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216; Wie zoet is krijgt lekkers&#8230;&#8217; (Those who are sweet, get sweets&#8230;) Sinterklaas (or St. Nicolaas, the &#8216;original&#8217; Santa Claus) has arrived in our little Country. He always arrives by boot from Spain three weeks before his birthday on the 6th of December. On the night before his birthday, December 5th, he brings all kinds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edible Gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/03/20/edible-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2006/03/20/edible-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Homemade granola, little cakes, cookies, jams and marmalade, I urge all kinds of edible gifts upon family and friends when I visit them. I always try to wrap it up real nice because ‘presentation is everything’. They seem to like it and I have the pleasure of making and baking. A lot of people I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Malt Eggnog</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2005/12/16/single-malt-eggnog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2005/12/16/single-malt-eggnog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gisteravond keken we elkaar aan: Zullen we nog even een rondje proefdraaien met de Eggnog?. Maar we hebben alleen single malt whisky in huis en geen rum. Is dat erg? Nee, dus. Dit is wat we maakten voor twee personen: Breng 200 ml melk tegen de kook aan. Doe twee eierdooiers en twee theelepeltjes van [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knibbel, Knabbel Knuisje Snoephuisje</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2005/12/14/knibbel-knabbel-knuisje/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trifles.nl/2005/12/14/knibbel-knabbel-knuisje/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marieke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas & Celebrations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ik wilde zo graag eens een snoephuisje (of koekhuisje) maken. Zo gezegd, zo gedaan, met de Allerhande als inspiratiebron. Ineens herinnerde ik me het versje van de kleuterschool weer&#8230;wonderlijk dat dat nog in mijn hoofd zat. Ik heb in mijn droom eens een huisje zien staan Het stond er te glinsteren in het licht van [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Child</title>
		<link>http://www.trifles.nl/2005/12/07/kerstkind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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