You can find some info here.
Essentially, you need something like
$today = current_time('mysql', 1);
if ( $recentposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title, post_date FROM wp_posts_table LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat_table ON wp_posts_table.ID = wp_post2cat_table.post_id WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date_gmt < '$today' AND category_id = XX ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 10")): ?>
This is presuming you have the blogs in the same database, with different prefixes. Where you substitute wp_post2cat_table and wp_posts_table with the name of your tables and for category_id = XX you enter the number of your category in place of XX.
And then you output results in a loop like:
<?php
foreach ($recentposts as $post) {
echo $post->post_title;
and so on….