Instructions: Portioning Tomato Paste Recipes often call for only a tablespoon or two of tomato paste. Unfortunately, the rest of the can often ends up turning brown in the refrigerator and then being discarded. Several readers sent us versions of this useful suggestion.

Open both ends of the tomato paste can. Remove the lid from one end and use the lid at the other end to push the paste out onto a sheet of plastic wrap. (This method can also be used remove other solid ingredients, such as frozen juice and almond paste, out of cans.) Wrap the tomato paste in plastic wrap and place it in the freezer. When the paste has frozen, you can cut off only as much as you need for a particular recipe, then return the frozen log to the freezer.

Heating a Pasta Bowl To easily heat a large serving bowl for pasta, place a colander in the bowl, pour the pasta and water into the colander, and let the hot water stand in the bowl for a few seconds to heat it. Then pour out the water, add the pasta and sauce, toss, and serve.

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