He urges the reader to "ride this baby out for as long as it takes" in a recipe for roasted onions, until crispy, pungent onion slices become silky and mild.

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"Blue Morning, " in particular, functions as a recipe for lazy perfection.

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When I first signed up for the service, shortly after the beta launch in 2008, I primarily used it as a recipe book.

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The precautionary principle in science is either so vague as to be meaningless or a disastrous recipe for stagnation.

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In a market as fiercely competitive as white goods, this was a sure recipe for trouble.

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Rather, it just encourages players to be more active in their time NOT spent gaming (as walking and playing a handheld is a recipe for booking it straight into oncoming traffic).

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"It provides a recipe for delivering all sorts of advanced technologies, such as full integrated circuits down in the brain, " Dr. Rogers said.

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Stocks tumbled in the third quarter, a recipe for trouble in an IPO market that leans heavily on an appetite for equities as an asset.

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As for home-cooked meals, while it is easy to measure the amount of salt called for in a recipe, it gets more complicated if the dish calls for soy sauce, or some other ingredient which contains salt.

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Reading my mind, somebody offered me a substance billed as chocolate mousse, the smoothness coming not from heavy whipping cream, as in the traditional recipe, but from avocado.

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