American cuisine Salad
Cobb Salad: Cut for the Toss
Cobb salad
A Cobb salad's rows show off the ingredients. Chopped greens, compatible pieces and a considered vinaigrette make them work together.
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American cuisine Breakfast potatoes
Hash Browns: Choose the Shreds and the Shape
Hash browns
Loose shreds, a skillet cake and small patties ask different things of the potato. Compare drying, rinsing and partly cooked starts before frying hash browns.
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