Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:11 PM
Making a solid, homemade pie crust is like changing a tire. You may not do it very often, but when you do—oh, how much do you kick ass? Sure, I have frozen
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:36 AM
Some people are sensitive to the indigestible complex sugars in the skins of beans, called oligosaccharides. (It’s what makes the legume a musical fruit.)
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:00 AM
Even if you’re the kind of cook who just throws things together, without a recipe, there are cookbooks, magazines and online recipe indexes you can’t live
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:26 AM
"Nothing says excess like excess” is a favorite saying of a friend of mine, and I live by those words when it comes to corn. There are few things better
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:13 AM
When the cheese sauce for homemade mac and cheese breaks, curdles or turns grainy, there are a few potential causes. 1. The sauce was too hot when the
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 6:10 PM
Just don't call it "barbecue". Call it oven-roasted. Call it baked. Call it pulled pork. Because technically, it's not barbecue unless natural wood smoke
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:10 AM
It’s officially grilling season—the gassy, pungent smell of lighter fluid-soaked charcoal is thick in the air of our neighborhood. I’ll admit I was once
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:09 AM
If you’ve never brined a chicken breast, you won’t really believe the impact brining has on meat until you actually taste it. Brining makes meat very tender
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