The basics are not always basic
he other day Andrea brought me a bag of fresh turnips. I have never cooked turnips, so I consulted with my pal, Google, and went to the recommended a recipe site. Above the recipes was a series of links to helpful videos, one of which was "How to salt water for boiling..." Okay. I remember learning that from my mother when I was fairly young. She always said that the water you cook things in should taste good and told me the only way to really tell was to taste it myself. A subjective approach, but quite effective, and I still use that method for anything that gets cooked in water. Certainly you could measure it out-- so many teaspoons per so much water or whatever, and I wondered which approach this video would take.
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