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"Recently, I was asked to test out the video game America&amp;#039;s Test Kitchen: Let&amp;#039;s Get Cooking on the Nintendo DSi XL (if you&amp;#039;re not familiar with the DSi XL, it&amp;#039;s a bigger version of the popular portable gaming machine). I was excited to give it a whirl because frankly, I&amp;#039;m not that great of a cook. That&amp;#039;s not to say I don&amp;#039;t know my way around the kitchen and can&amp;#039;t whip up a meal when I need to\u2014I&amp;#039;m just not very skilled when it comes to cooking new things or deciphering what a cookbook is actually telling me to do.  The first recipe I decided to try out was the Tomato and Mozzarella Tart. The ingredients were pretty basic: egg, Parmesan cheese, plum tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and frozen puff pastry as well as olive oil, garlic, fresh basil, salt and pepper for seasoning.    But, I was a little worried because I&amp;#039;ve never actually worked with puff pastry before and in a only-in-New-York moment, the fancy 11\u00D717 cookie sheet I bought to use for this recipe didn&amp;#039;t fit in the smaller-than-average oven in my Brooklyn apartment. Not one to give up, I used a casserole dish instead.    The thing I like about using this video game/cookbook is that it&amp;#039;s not too overwhelming. It&amp;#039;s really a one-step-at-a-time approach to cooking. First, gather all the ingredients. Second, prep all the ingredients. Third, assemble and cook the recipe. Then, enjoy!    I often feel so lost in the kitchen that I think it taints the food in some way, resulting in a dish that just doesn&amp;#039;t taste that great. Because America&amp;#039;s Test Kitchen is really designed for beginner cooks or parents who want to involve their kids in the kitchen, all the tricks and secrets that people writing cookbooks don&amp;#039;t bother to disclose are available at the touch of the DS stylus. Here are a few things I learned while preparing this dish:    1. To core the plum tomatoes, use a small paring knife (which I was able to look up the definition for in the game) to cut out the tough center, making sure to rotate the tomato toward you while doing so. I don&amp;#039;t know why you have to do this, but it worked like a charm\u2014and trust me, I&amp;#039;ve destroyed many a beautiful tomato by getting frustrated and just ripping that core out.  2. Laying out the sliced tomatoes on a paper towel, sprinkling them with salt and letting them sit for about 30 minutes helps dehydrate them so they aren&amp;#039;t too mushy or watery. This obviously worked because my husband ate the tart\u2014and he hates tomatoes with a passion. His normal M.O. is to give me all the vegetables on his plate that have the least bit of a slimy texture (cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, eggplant, etc). But he loved the tart, of which he had multiple servings, and never once removed the tomatoes from it.  3. Some kitchen utensils are worth the investment. I decided to buy a garlic press because the game recommends it (they say it helps to &amp;quot;ensure that the pieces with be very fine&amp;quot;). In the past, I&amp;#039;ve always worked with really inexpensive presses that never seem to do the job. So, while at Target, I opted for the more expensive OXO Good Grips Garlic Press ($15.99; OXO.com) and I&amp;#039;m so glad I did. That garlic shot through those grates and the soft handles made them super easy to use.     Verdict: This savory tart was way more delicious than I thought it was going to be. Even though it didn&amp;#039;t look exactly like the recipe picture in the game (mostly, I think, because I baked it in a glass casserole dish), it tasted awesome. Once I get a cookie sheet that will actually fit in my mini-oven, I can see myself making this for a potluck, dinner party or holiday meal. \u2014Meghan Ahearn All photos by Randy Lee.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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