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Meaty with a dash of veggies

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How-tos

Find fully illustrated guides on the preparation of common ingredients. When beating egg whites, for example, how can you tell between soft peaks and stiff peaks? How do you skin and cut mangoes and pineapples? What is the right way to cook rice and how do you make it into congee? When cooking tempura, how should the shrimps be prepped? What's the proper way to wrap spring rolls?

See all how-to guides below.

Homemade vanilla sugar in jar

Easy homemade vanilla sugar

Egg whites: stiff peak stage

Beating egg whites: frothy to stiff peaks, illustrated

Baking pab bottom coated with caramelized sugar

How to caramelize sugar

Bacon, pancakes and egg

The better way to cook bacon

How to cook gyoza with wings

Home baked white bread

Stages in making bread

Catfish farm

Best way to remove catfish slime

Making chicken bone broth in cereamic pot

How to make chicken bone broth

Easy tasty risotto for home cooks

Home made dulce de leche

Making dulce de leche at home: facts and myths

Okra in a home garden

Okra: how to grow and how to cook

A bowl of green and ripe mangoes

How to cut and skin a mango

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