Q: To roast butternut squash, season the cubes with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Roast the squash cubes in an oven heated to 350 °F (177 °C). Remove the squash from the oven when the cubes are soft on the inside and brown and crunchy on the outside.  Add savory spices, like cumin, chili powder or cayenne pepper, to make a spicy side dish. Add sweet elements, like brown sugar, maple syrup or agave nectar, to make a delectable treat. Butternut squash soup has a silky, creamy texture, perfect for warming up on a winter night. To make it, follow these steps:  Roast butternut squash cubes in the oven until they are soft. In the meantime, sauté a diced onion and a few cloves of minced garlic in some olive oil in a large soup pot on over medium heat on the stove. Add the butternut squash and a quart of chicken or vegetable stock. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce it to a simmer, and cook for 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste, then blend it in batches in the blender. Serve with a drizzle of cream and some black pepper. If you want to skip the peeling process, you can bake a squash whole and cut it when it's soft. Poke a squash all over with a fork and place it on a baking sheet in an oven heated to 350 °F (177 °C). Bake the squash for about an hour, until it's tender when you poke it with a fork. Remove it from the oven, let it cool for a few minutes, and cut it into slices.
A: Make roasted butternut squash cubes. Make butternut squash soup. Cook it whole.

Q: Thicker cuts are easier to cook at home than thinner cuts. If you can't eat a whole thick-cut steak by yourself, divide it up once it's cooked. Also, picking one with a bone adds more flavor to the final dish. Better cuts of ribeye will have fat marbled throughout the steaks in thin ribbons and small dots. To sear a steak properly, the outside needs to be dry. Pat it off thoroughly with paper towels. The dry surface will lead to better cooking. In fact, you can salt the steak then leave it uncovered in the fridge overnight, which will slightly dry out the surface. Going from the refrigerator to the pan with a ribeye can lead to uneven cooking, particularly if you have a thick-cut ribeye. It's best to let it come to room temperature, which means leaving it out for at least 30 minutes before cooking. Once you've got it dried off properly, you can season the steak to your tastes. Many chefs recommend staying simple when it comes to a good cut of meat like a ribeye. Start off with salt and pepper, and go from there. A bit of paprika or garlic powder may be a good addition. After you salt, you should start cooking the steak right away for the best sear. Otherwise, moisture will start to form on the surface. However, you can also salt and leave the steak out for 40 to 50 minutes, so the moisture has time to reabsorb into the steak. Even in a cast-iron skillet, which is essentially nonstick, you still need to add a bit of oil to the pan to keep it from sticking. Choose a neutral oil that has a high smoke point, such as canola or refined peanut oil. Rub it into the steak. You can add the oil to skillet instead if you prefer. A cast-iron skillet is best for this method, as it will help build a crust on the steak. Turn the oven on broil, and place the pan in the oven. Once the oven is hot, give it 15 minutes or so to heat up the pan. After the skillet is heated, take it out, but be ready for the next step.
A: Buy a thicker cut of meat. Dry off the meat. Bring the steak to room temperature. Season your steaks. Add oil. Heat the pan.

Q: A quadratic equation means that you have at least one variable that is squared. It will typically be written in the formula y=ax(squared)+bx+c.  Graphing a quadratic equation will give you a parabola, which is a ‘U’ shaped curve. You will need to find at least three point to graph it, beginning with the vertex which is the centermost point. If we use the example y=x(squared)+2x+1, then a=1, b=2, and c=1. Each letter corresponds to the number directly before the variable it sits next to in the equation. If there is no number before ‘x’ in the equation, then the variable is equal to ‘1’ because it is assumed that there is 1x. To find the vertex, the point in the middle of the parabola, use the formula -b/2a. In our example, this equation would change to -2/2(1), which equals to -1. You now know the vertex, -1, which is a point on the x-axis. However, this is only one point of the vertex coordinate. To find the corresponding y-coordinate as well as two other points on your parabola, you will need to make a table. Place the x-coordinate for the vertex in the top center column. Choose two more x-coordinates an equal number in each direction (positive and negative) from the vertex point. For example, we could go up two and down two, making the two numbers we fill in the other blank table spaces ‘-3’ and ‘1’. You can choose any numbers you want to fill in the top row of the table, as long as they are whole numbers and the same distance from the vertex. If you want to have a clearer graph, you can find five coordinates instead of three. Doing this is the same process as above, but give your table five columns instead of three. One at a time, take the numbers you have selected to represent the x-coordinates from your table and insert them into the original equation. Solve for ‘y’.  Following our example, we could use our chosen coordinate of ‘-3’ to substitute into the original formula of y=x(squared)+2x+1. This would change to y= -3(squared)+2(3)+1, giving an answer of y=4. Place the new y-coordinate underneath the x-coordinate that you used into your table. Solve for all three (or five, if you want more) coordinates in this fashion. Now that you have at least three complete coordinate pairs, mark them on your graph. Draw a connecting them all into a parabola, and you’re finished!
A: Examine your formula. Find ‘a,’ ‘b,’ and ‘c’. Find the vertex. Make a table. Make a table that has three rows and two columns. Use your table and formula to solve for the y-coordinates. Graph the coordinates.

Q: (Temporary) Select an area you wish to color with the magic wand tool, and color it in. The magic wand will not let you color outside of lines, so you need to select each area you want to color. You may also want to return the "lineart" layer to above the "color" layer, so the lines aren't distorted.
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Create a new layer, and block off any open areas, such as the hands and torso. Return to your color layer. Delete the "capped" layer and you should end up with this.