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Cooking on deadline: Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta dish
Cooking on deadline: Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta dish By J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor Published Jan 31, 2012 04:15PM MDT When you select the right ingredients, it doesn’t take many of them to create a fantastic dinner. Nor much time. The trick is to pick ingredients with tons of flavor, then let them do the heavy lifting for you. I usually start with a main ingredient that is ...

Rustic Inn offers vegetarian recipe
Chef and owner Aaron Ackley of the Cedar Rustic Inn submitted this week’s County Cuisine vegetarian recipe. “Sometimes, I find that in the winter, I crave dishes with both depth of flavor and a memory of the summer,” Ackley wrote. “This particular cre read more

Play with ingredients, techniques to boost flavor of food
You can follow a recipe to the letter, but you don't really begin to cook until you learn to play with your food. To be precise, learn to play with a few key ingredients and cooking techniques to boost the flavor of a dish, moving it from boring to beautiful.

Easy tricks will make dull dishes pop with flavor
You can follow a recipe to the letter, but you don’t really begin to cook until you learn to play with your food. To be precise, learn to play with a few key ingredients and cooking techniques to boost the flavor of a dish, moving it from boring to beautiful.

Mother-daughter team from Roseville win TV cook-off
From the kitchen range of their Roseville home to the national TV airwaves, this mother and daughter cooking team continues to savor a sweet victory.

Learn to 'play' with your food to boost flavor of routine dishes
You can follow a recipe to the letter, but you don't really begin to cook until you learn to play with your food. To be precise, learn to play with a few key ingredients and cooking techniques to boost the flavor of a dish, moving it from boring to beautiful.

Easy Tricks To Spice Up Dull Foods
You can follow a recipe to the letter, but you don't really begin to cook until you learn to play with your food. To be precise, learn to play with a few key ingredients and cooking techniques to boost the flavor of a dish, moving it from boring to beautiful.

Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta
This recipe for spicy sausage and arugula penne calls for Parmesan cheese, but an aged gouda or crumbled feta would be delicious, too. / Matthew Mead/AP PHOTO

Recipe: Spicy Sausage and Arugula Penne
This is an easy to make recipe that can be adapted to what you have on hand.

Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking?
Cooking is a field that has in recent years seen a shift from the artistic to the scientific. While there are certainly still subjective and somewhat impenetrable qualities to one’s cuisine — de gustibus non est disputandum — there is an increasing rigor in the kitchen.