Tips from culinary school: How to cook rice, pilaf, pasta, potatoes perfectly

As many of you know, I am currently enrolled in culinary school (I have a blog – CookingSchoolconfidential.com – where I talk about the craziness of it all).
I promised to post some of the good tips I learned from the chef’s here.
So I thought I’d start with tips on how to cook rice, pilaf, pasta, [...]

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The world’s best cookie recipe

I don’t make cookies. Sure, I’ll eat a cookie if one is given to me (and I’ve never met a black and white cookie I could refuse). But I don’t crave cookies.
So if I tell you I’ve got the world’s best cookie recipe, then you know I am not kidding.The world’s best cookie recipeThis recipe [...]

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The five-minute tofu recipe people who hate tofu LOVE

If you like potato chips, you will love this recipe.
It is as tasty as chips, can be as salty as chips, is nearly as crunchy as chips, and is almost as easy to make as opening a bag of chips.
And it is something like a million percent healthier and a million percent less fattening. Which [...]

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How to deal with annoyingly persistent questions about vegetarianism from the relatives

If you are dealing with well-meaning people who want to know why you don’t eat beef / chicken / ham and why you always ask people what is in the casserole / where did you get the soup / how the vegetables were made and so on, then I’d like to present a little primer [...]

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Recipe for hot vegetarian food to warm your soul

Brrr. If you’re cold through and through, then have I got a recipe for you. It’s totally vegetarian (doh!), totally easy, totally healthy, and, best of all, totally delicious.
If that is not what we vegetarians need to warm our souls, I don’t know what is!
So here comes a gorgeous vegetarian recipe for …Roasted Peppers and [...]

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