Including easy ingredient substitutions, basic knife skills, meat marinating times, and more.

For making your own vinaigrette.

Which you should be doing, instead of buying the bottled stuff. It's healthier and tastier, and it's really not hard. Here's everything you need to know about building a better salad.

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For making substitutions when you're missing an ingredient.

Pretty awesome. Via eReplacement Parts.

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For cooking red meat exactly how you like it.

If you're going splurge on a really great piece of meat, you'd better know how to cook it to temperature. If you need more help, here's how to make the perfect steak.

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For spicing things up.

Sure, you can just dump a bunch of spices into your stew and it'll taste good. But, you can take your home cooking to a whole new level if you really know which spices taste best with which foods. Via CookSmarts.

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