When I was a kid, I would watch my mom in the kitchen. Every once in a while as she cut up potatoes, she’d pop a raw piece in ...

Meatloaf has a long history in the United States. The first recorded instances of modern-ish meatloaf appeared in New England cookbooks in the late 1800s, when home cooks would attempt to stretch ...

At the same time, sweating softens the vegetables a bit before you add them to the raw meatloaf ingredients. You don't have to cook them fully. Some of the cooking action should happen in the oven.

Raw potatoes (as well as raw beans, soybeans and peanuts) contain lectins, which are sometimes referred to as “anti-nutrients ...

She’d do the same with raw meat — to test the seasoning, I suppose — before placing a meatloaf in the oven. Don’t do that, say food safety experts. To my knowledge, my mom never got sick ...

The main reason to cook potatoes is to make them more digestible. Raw potatoes (as well as raw beans, soybeans and peanuts) contain lectins, which are sometimes referred to as “anti-nutrients.” In ...