Guest Post by Claudia from mealfan.com When I was little, before my mom discovered how to cook with wine and make a great cheese sauce, we ate a lot of egg noodles, spaghetti, and potato salad. Her mother wasn’t that interested in cooking, and I remember the simple boiled onions that were served with plain unseasoned turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy and the requisite cranberry sauce every Thanksgiving when we went over to her house and ate at our respective tables for little people and adults. My dad frequently lamented the fact that he couldn’t ever get a meal that wasn’t boiled. What I wanted to know was: what does “boiled” mean? via GIPHY Since then, my repertoire has broadened and I can now not only boil eggs with the best of them, but I learned that food can taste a whole lot better if you know the right way to cook each kind. I think maybe without being aware of it, that’s what my dad was alluding to. Since boiling was a foregone conclusion, I set my sites on other ways to try to get different foods to speak to me about what they could do. Once I learned […]