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		<title>Failure.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sooo&#8230;I like to think of myself as a pretty decent baker. I&#8217;m no Bakerella, but I can hold my own. Last night, I needed a simple cookie recipe, and I wanted to try something new. I used a recipe site that I&#8217;ve used several times before (which will remain nameless) and it was, well&#8230;bleh. I mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/09/01/failure/</link>
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		<title>Twenty Dollar Tuesday &#8211; Mango SALSA!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty Dollar Tuesdays is usually reserved for helpful hints and decorating ideas. But&#8230;I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to give you a recipe today (Because I&#8217;m just that WILD!).  I am NOT a mango eater. I usually think they taste like iced tea in fruit form&#8230;BUT a year or so ago, I ordered a crab cake at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/31/twenty-dollar-tuesday-mango-salsa/</link>
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		<title>Cafeteria Food-Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to a teeny weeny public school in rural Missouri. I went to the same school K-12 and had 21 kids in my graduating class (crazy, eh?) So every single day of my school career K-12 I ate lunch in the same cafeteria. I was a bit of a picky eater, but, this may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/30/cafeteria-food-peanut-butter-chocolate-bars/</link>
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		<title>An Egg-cellent Tip!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Mamaku posted a haiku yesterday about her chickens (and their cannibalistic habits, yikes!), so I&#8217;ve had eggs on the brain. With all these eggy thoughts, I decided I HAD to tell you a tip my friend Autumn shared with me last week about eggs: how do you tell if an egg is fresh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/26/an-egg-cellent-tip/</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Plating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think one of the most important things in cooking and baking is the plating. When you go to a fancy restaurant, you tend to see things like this: Or this: But it doesn&#8217;t have to be that fancy! When I was laid up last week, my hubby made me lunch quite a few times. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/25/the-importance-of-plating/</link>
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		<title>Twenty Dollar Tuesdays-Let Fall Begin!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things for me about my Hubby being stationed in Southern California is the lack of seasons. Yes, it&#8217;s sunny 90% of the time. And yes, it never dips below 65 degrees. But we also never have the coming season to look forward to! When it&#8217;s hot and sunny and humid, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/24/twenty-dollar-tuesdays-let-fall-begin/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Baaaaack!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m baaack!  Did you miss me? I missed you all, that&#8217;s for sure! I spent a week after surgery laid up, and took the opportunity to detox myself a bit (well except for the boatload of medication I was on ).  I tried to only use my computer when absolutely necessary; no caffeine; no alcohol; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/23/im-baaaaack/</link>
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		<title>Under the Knife&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;.tomorrow I&#8217;m off to have surgery. Eek. And with that, I&#8217;ll be taking some Vicodin. Although this could result in some very interesting posts&#8230;I think it&#8217;s better that I abstain from blogging for a day or so until I get my wits about me again. Don&#8217;t you just love that phrase &#8220;wits about me&#8221;? I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/11/under-the-knife/</link>
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		<title>Twenty Dollar Tuesday-The FREE Lazy Susan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I had this great secret for storing spices with you last week, but then I needed to take a break to put my head in a vice? Well, it&#8217;s your LUCKY day, because I&#8217;m going to share that secret with you now that my head is no longer going to explode! So I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/10/twenty-dollar-tuesday-the-free-lazy-susan/</link>
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		<title>Babies Galore!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about being involved in such a close-knit military community, is watching everyone come together to support one another in times of need. One of the best examples of this is the way everyone takes turns taking dinner to families when new babies arrive. We recently had not one, but TWO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisamericanwife.net/2010/08/09/babies-galore/</link>
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