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    Tips on peeling butternut squash

    Hey all! I want to make a butternut squash dish for a Thanksgiving potluck. This is the one I have in mind. But ... peeling a bnut squash kind of intimidates me. Does anyone have any tips on how to best peel a bnut squash? The recipe calls for the squash to be cubed so I was figuring I...
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    Looking for grilled veg recipe - tasted like steak!

    Hi- I had the most amazing grilled vegetables on Sunday at a brunch. It was a "grilled vegetable" dish, including broccoli, cauliflower, yellow and green squash and snap peas, that tasted like it had steak juice or something drizzled on them. I am not positive that it was steak juice but that...
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    Replacing wine with a vinaigrette?

    Hi- I have a recipe that calls for wine and it says I can replace it with a "viniagrette" if I want to. I don't really feel like buying a good bottle of wine, just to dump it down the sink. But I'm confused by what they mean about "viniagrette." "Vinagriattes", to me, come in a variety of...
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    Need advice for roasting lamb plus buttnernut squash

    Hey everybody, Tomorrow I plan on making leg of lamb for Easter. The recipe calls to put the oven at 450 for the first 20 minutes and 400 for the next hour or so. Reading through the multiple reviews, most thought this was way too high and burned the top of their lamb. There were several...
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    How to best cut pork tenderloin

    Hi- I have a really silly, probably dumb question. What knife is best used to cut pork tenderloin? I need to cut it into 3/4" thick slices (then pound them into 1/4" thick with a pounder). My intuition says to get a chef's knife. As of right now, all I have are what are probably paring...
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    Why does my broiler seem to be on the bottom?

    I have read before that broiling in your oven means that the top burner of your oven gets turned on and it acts like an upside down grill. I tried broiling some fish last night. When I looked in my oven, I can see flames coming from the bottom of my oven (underneath the bottom panel from a...
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    Question: Grilling and Frying

    I've been learning new recipes lately and different cooking techniques. I am trying to figure something out, which is probably dumb, but I kind of want to know. I'm trying to figure out the difference between grilling and frying. Now I know that grilling is generally defined a dry heat method...
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