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July 28, 2018

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The Hidden Ingredients in Every Recipe, Part 3
Hidden ingredients numbers 1 and 2: Tools and Temperature. What’s your guess for hidden ingredient number 3? It's TIME. Here’s
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Spring Is Coming! Time to Take Charge of Your Herbs!
Sure, you can use dried herbs. They’re there all year ‘round. And you know what you’re getting. But... I feel
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Meal Planning?! Who Really Does That??
Well, starting a couple of months ago, I do. Planning meals a week in advance sounds like a tedious chore
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Got Milk(s)? Here's My Nutritional Comparison Chart
I've been a cow's milk fan my whole life, drinking it with all three meals a day as a kid
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Perfect Turkey
If you're tired of dry turkeys, try my method. It's faster than many, and easy. The only downside is that
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The Hidden Ingredients in Every Recipe, Part 2 of 3
We talked yesterday about the fact that the need for special tools is almost never called out at the beginning
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Imitation Vanilla: Surprise!
Many of us highbrow snobby cooks will only use real vanilla extract. We wouldn’t sully our cooking or our reputations
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Your Personal Carry-Along Cookbook
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be able to cook my favorite (but not memorized) recipes from
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Perfectly-Cooked Steak Part 2—From Frozen!
Last night, I pulled a 3-inch-thick three pound bone-in ribeye steak from my freezer, cooked it to medium-rare perfection without
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About Cookware--You don't need "The Best"
Most of my cooking life, I have coveted expensive cookware. My ego was in charge, and I wanted my cookware
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