11.   Before long, I am politely babbling about cooking to someone at a Melkite church.

12.   Braided garlic adorns the gourmet station where entrees are cooked to order.

13.   A class added last year was conserves, a mixture of several fruits cooked to a jamlike consistency.

14.   A steak that is two inches thick or more may become too charred on the outside before it is cooked to the desired degree of doneness inside.

15.   Add remaining ingredients and cook to sauce consistency.

16.   Add the spaghettini and cook to al dente.

17.   All the steaks were cooked to medium rare, and evaluated for tenderness and complex flavor.

18.   All were cooked to medium.

19.   Budget-minded housewives buy huge quantities of wilted and leftover salad greens and cook them to a spinachy consistency.

20.   Chefs, he said, no longer brag about their cooking to one another.