The best potato salad hack involves an ingredient we guarantee is in your kitchen as we speak. For decades, celebrity chefs have been urging us to reserve the starchy water that remains after cooking ...

For Ina Garten, the best pasta salad leans less on the noodles and more on the salad. To make a well-rounded fusilli-based salad, Garten uses half a pound of pasta, per her Food Network recipe.