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		<title>Silverbeet sarma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarma is an Ottoman Empire dish where leaves are stuffed with tasty fillings like mince and rice. The version I like best uses pickled cabbage for wrapping. There are all kinds of variations in Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Wikipedia says: Minced meat (usually beef, pork, veal, or a combination thereof, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living the life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had just finished a long meeting when the chairperson David invited us all to lunch. The seven of us went to a pub, ordered some drinks and got to know each other. &#8216;How&#8217;s inner city life?&#8217; David asked. &#8216;Really good,&#8217; I said. &#8216;I&#8217;m really enjoying being able to ride the Melbourne Bikes to work.&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Balcony herb garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a lovely green communal space in the middle of our apartment complex. We&#8217;ve used it for BBQs, tennis and swimming. However, we can&#8217;t plant vegies in it the way our friends with backyards can. We do have a little balcony. It&#8217;s a bit bigger than three square metres. A few weeks ago, Damjan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scale: no longer a problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally bought a kettle. It&#8217;s a Russell Hobbs, which is meant to be the leading brand in the UK. This warning made me chuckle. In Cambridge and London, I had to regularly cook my kettles with lemon or vinegar to get rid of the build up of greyish white scale. I&#8217;ve now escaped hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joanko.net/2012/02/scale-no-longer-a-problem</link>
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		<title>Mega mango</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s summer because I get to eat steaks of mango! Mango is one of my four favourite foods. Here is a mega mango that my mum and dad gave us. I tried to take a photo to give you a sense of scale but the best I could do was to put the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joanko.net/2012/01/mega-mango</link>
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		<title>Electric car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had just enjoyed a dinner at Monash University in the middle suburbs of Melboure and expected to take a late night bus, then train, back into the city. I was very pleased when one of the guests offered to drive me home. &#8216;Actually, you can drive yourself home,&#8217; David said. &#8216;You see, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A surprising risotto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For one of our dinner parties, Damjan made a lamb roast. At the end of the evening, he stopped one of our helpful guests from cleaning out the oven tray. &#8216;Don&#8217;t throw out the juices,&#8217; Damjan said. &#8216;That&#8217;s the best bit.&#8217; He poured the oily liquid into a container, which then went into the fridge. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joanko.net/2012/01/a-surprising-risotto</link>
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		<title>New job, new desk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, I am seconded into another company. Being seconded means that my own company has &#8216;loaned&#8217; me out. My original company still pays me directly and my new company pays my home company for my time. Since I started working, I have been on three secondments. The first time I was asked to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joanko.net/2012/01/new-job-new-desk</link>
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		<title>Vegie harvesting day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Damjan and others helped Megan and Brad establish their vegetable garden. I was in the UK so missed out on the day of labour. Of course, I was very happy to be around for the the follow up &#8216;vegie harvesting day&#8217;, especially as it was also a &#8216;cook up a vegie storm and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joanko.net/2012/01/vegie-harvesting-day</link>
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		<title>Banana house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mum gave me a yellow banana-shaped box. It says &#8216;banana house&#8217; on it. I&#8217;m doing my best to avoid owning things and cluttering up our new apartment, so I thought maybe this banana house was one of those &#8216;over the top&#8217; items, invented to solve a problem no one has. But I gave it [...]]]></description>
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