Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. cucumbers frying in a pan - Sergio Amiti/Getty Images "Cool as a cucumber" may refer to a state of being, but the analogy stems ...

We discovered something brilliant about shallots: if you cook them in a bit of oil, they taste almost exactly like onion rings. If you only cook this recipe once (which trust us, won’t happen—you’ll ...

Sometimes I buy cucumbers and just eat them straight out of the fridge. Their mild flavor and satisfying crunch make for a great cooling snack during the sweltering summer months. But as much as I ...

This is characteristic of a yin-yang stir-fry, so called because it combines cooling ingredients (such as cucumber) with the heat of others (in this case, garlic and ginger). Garlic mellowed by frying ...