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Boiling Potatoes? Save the Water!
When you boil potatoes you get starchy water, which can be quite useful.
How Done Is That Meat?
With the arrival of spring, it's time to fire up the grill. One of the most difficult things for inexperienced grillers is judging the doneness of the meats they're cooking, and it may come as a surprise to some that one of the best ways of judging is touch.
Benvenuta Primavera!
Fresh spring vegetables -- as opposed to what's grown in a hothouse -- are by now flooding the markets, and it's time to put them to use. Making Pasta alla Primavera, for example: There's no one recipe because people's tastes and vegetable patches differ, but they all share the delightful freshness of Spring.
Cooking Pasta: How Much Water?
Given the crisis, people are looking for ways to save, and cooking pasta in less water is one possibility. It works, though the texture of the pasta cooked this way is less chewy than that cooked in the standard gallon of boiling water per pound of pasta.
Alessio's Ridiculously Easy "Steamed" Asparagus
An easy way to prepare steamed asparagus when you're busy with other things or can't spare a burner for your asparagus pot.
On Oil for Frying
Some oils are better than others for frying. I find olive oil to be the best oil for frying.
On Grilling a Big Chicken
Grilling a chicken, especially a large one? How to speed and simplify the cooking.