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  • Examples of cook
    1. I have some leftover spaghetti in the fridge, so I don't plan to cook tonight.
    2. She's a mighty cook.
    3. So if you dry the squid compulsively, at least by my noncompulsive standards, and you cook it in small batches, you solve the problem.
    4. I am still on the fence about whether to cook broccoli or green beans.
    5. a saving cook
    6. Let them cook, semicovered, for 5 minutes, then uncovered for a couple minutes more, until nicely browned.
    7. Now citrus: orange juice, some pineapple, and let the result cook down, focus the flavor, become sludgelike, glistening, fantastic.
    8. You don't like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then? ‎
    9. Blanch the unbrined octopus arms for 30 seconds in boiling water, cook them in a covered dry pan in a 200-degree oven for four or five hours or until tender, and cool them slowly in their own juices.
    10. The ship was left undercrewed after the cook and two of the sailors were killed.
  • Examples of cooks
    1. FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache.
    2. The poor public... is driven back to toshy novels about problems, written by cooks.
    3. He has no end of supplies, no end of cooks and waiters, no end of table furniture and decorations, no end of handsome dining rooms, yet he frequently lives on the crumbs that fall from the table.
    4. Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
    5. Our semantic network results showed that the phrase “good cooks use it” in our commercials was increasing sales because it made people think “fresh” and “taste” which are two of our key attributes.
    6. The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter.
    7. Turn the mixer on medium-high, and then do that thing professional cooks live in fear of being yelled at for: overwhip the cream!
    8. Flattening chicken breast halves serves two purposes: It provides more surface area to rub in the Greek-influenced seasoning, and it ensures that the chicken cooks quickly.
  • Examples of cooked
    1. Medina was killed, then cooked, becoming the second inmate in seven years to suffer the Florida flambe.
    2. It's difficult to have a perfectly cooked, cooked-through fried egg because, by the time the yolk has coagulated, or set, the white is overcooked. You'll usually have to settle for either a runny yolk or a tough white.
    3. This risotto is simply the jazz. = This risotto was cooked in the classic manner.
    4. Among the entrees are skate sautéed with capers and white wine served with puréed potatoes and haricot verts; and oven-cooked rainbow trout with fresh herbs served with cauliflower, kalamata olives and fresh tomato sauce.
    5. With small crosses made from palm fronds pinned to their shirts, the devils sweated and danced into a trancelike state before resting at midday for a meal of mondongo, a soup made with slow-cooked beef tripe and pigs’ feet.
    6. I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: "I'll just take a peep inside. / I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked";. . . then the door I opened wide.
    7. Gar, a long, skinny fish, was cooked and served in thick grape syrup, like saba, the Italian grape must.
  • Examples of cooking
    1. Cooking philosophy: Buy the best you can find or afford and don’t overmanipulate it.
    2. If in doubt, know that most “spoilers” — molds, yeasts, enzymes and bacteria — cannot survive more than a few minutes’ cooking, so the contents of a questionable jar can always be dumped into a pot and resterilized by boiling for 10 minutes.
    3. After seeing to the shopping, cleaning and cooking, he finally sat down for some rest.
    4. He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.
    5. Coffee Filters: When you are cooking for guests, do you get afflicted with the clumsies, especially when you try to separate paper coffee filters?
    6. I stand by my original post any woman who's fool enough to buy into staying home cleaning, cooking and caring for kidddies[sic] while the bedicked one escapes to his job is crazy !!!
    7. The main —— or cooking —— kitchen is an inhumanly immaculate expanse of burner rings and countertops where, according to tradition, the stations move clockwise from canapé to entremetier.
    8. The reason for equivalization is to allow for household economies of scale–for example, cooking a meal for four people costs less than cooking four separate meals for one person.
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