Bring the liquid to a boil and using a wooden spoon, scrape up all the browned bits that have stuck to the bottom and sides of the pan.

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Knocked the big wooden spoon she had tacked up on the wall to the floor.

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Selections from Team Boo were recorded in Austin, and the band returned again for Re-Arrange Us, teaming up with Spoon's Jim Eno.

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Lihn began to break it up with a spoon, and I realized that the pill looked like an onion with countless layers.

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But how we do it is take the bench-top physics class model, where you mix nitrogen and ice cream in a bowl and stir it up with a spoon.

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He'll stop an intern struggling through a pile of carrots to show him how to hold his knife, he'll stick a spoon in a braise and give the cook a thumbs-up, he'll offer advice and jokes, whatever the situation demands.

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If I close my eyes, I can see my mom's kitchen windows steaming up from the simmering gravy, hear her banging her wooden spoon on the rim of the gravy pot, and smell the meatballs sizzling in olive oil.

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When he got back, he turned on the TV, scooted up real close, as close as he could, and ate his dinner with a soup spoon.

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