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Today From Bob Schulties, your About Today Editor When I started living on my own my eating habits weren't all that great. If it didn't come in a can or a tube I didn't eat it. Oh, also, pre-cooked was a must. I literally didn't know how long to cook... Pre-cooked sausage. I know, duh. Six hours, 45 minutes. How to Cook Rice I can sorta cook rice but I gotta tell you, sometimes I peek in the pot. My neighbor Judy literally made the dismissive "ppsuh" noise when she saw me do it. "That's how you cook rice?!" Look, I said, one grain at a time makes it perfect. So what if it takes me 742 days to make a pot of rice. It's delicious! Read More... How to Make Mashed Potatoes How to Make Hard Boiled Eggs How to Make a Perfect Tossed Green Salad OK, enough of the white foods. Let's get some color going. I recently made the world's biggest salad that attracted quite a few ladies if I do say so myself. "That's some salad bowl" one remarked. Another one said, "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?" Look, I said, What do you wear to make salads? Read More... How to Make Gravy Know Your Cuts of Meat See More About:  salads  lettuces  chicories How to Write a Check I was wondering if I should include this because we live in an age of electronic banking. I mean, when's the last time you wrote a check, right? Which, of course, makes me wonder if I even remember how. Read More... How to Check Your Oil How to Change a Tire See More About:  writing checks  checking accounts  Simply Put: Learn or Be Naked Before I left for college my mom attempted to teach me to do laundry. She showed me the cycles, the temperatures, the detergent, the fabric softener, the bleach and then I asked her if she'd be my roommate. Read More... How to Have Good Posture How to Do CPR See More About:  fabric care  laundry products  appliances Today Ads Pasta Salad Recipe Chicken Salad Recipe Pasta Salad Recipes Recipes Salad Tuna Salad Recipe Featured Articles   More from About.com Bake Sale Bestsellers Make your next bake sale a profitable one with these irresistible recipes. More> Real Recipes app Download our highly-rated app for free recipes and kitchen tools, for iPhone and iPod Touch. More>   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Today newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2012 About.com     Follow us on: Advertisement