Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.
With a few simple techniques and a few common tools, cooking steak in the oven is not just doable, it's quick and easy and can provide a tasty finished product. And while a broiler pan can be a helpful tool, it's certainly not required.
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As popular as the herb cilantro is among those who like intense flavor in their Chinese, Indian or Latin American dishes, it can be off-putting to those with softer taste buds.
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London broil is a preparation, not a cut of meat. The customary procedure is to marinate, bake or broil to medium-rare and serve in thin slices. Traditional London broil is made with marinated flank steak. Top round is often substituted for the tasty but tough flank.
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Some people don’t enjoy vegetables’ taste -- with canned peas high on many least-favorite lists. Since vegetables are an important part of a balanced diet, look for a way to make the peas more palatable, especially for young children. A few household items can help improve canned peas’ taste.
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Cayenne pepper consists of ground red chili flakes, and is unrelated to black pepper. The hot spice contains the key ingredient capsaicin that delivers the heat in cayenne pepper. The spice originated in South and Central America thousands of year ago.
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Cold lunch meat is just one more thing on a long list of things you’re told to avoid during pregnancy. Processed meats such as hot dogs and lunchmeat pose the threat of introducing harmful bacteria to your already compromised system and can possibly result in an infection known as Listeriosis.
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Turmeric's earthy, exotic aroma and flavor make it a delicious addition to many dishes. Turmeric is almost always sold with the dried spices at grocery stores, but some specialty markets carry the fresh root. Swapping fresh root for dried in recipes is possible.
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Steaming corn on the cob in the husk is faster than the traditional boiling method and also helps keeps more of that fresh corn flavor. The husks act as natural insulators as the corn cobs cook, keeping the steam trapped inside and resulting in tender, plump kernels.
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Adding pudding makes a boxed cake mix extra moist, so each bite melts in your mouth. Try vanilla pudding with anything from a yellow cake mix to a spice cake. Even lemon pudding adds a refreshing citrus flavor to white and yellow cake mixes, while chocolate pudding goes well with any chocolate cake mix.
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Sugar is a substance frequently used to sweeten desserts and beverages. Although sugar is known to be high in carbohydrates, this should not concern you if you caramelize it with butter, since a little goes a long way.
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Lentils are small legumes, also known as “pulses,” that are high in fiber and protein and low in fat. Common varieties of lentil include black, brown, green and red. Lentils are typically sold in dried form and are hard like little pebbles before the cooking process begins.
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Haddock is a white fish, similar to cod, that bakes quickly in the oven for a healthier option to fried fish fillets. Haddock and cod also go by the term scrod in some northeastern areas of the United States. A fresh haddock fillet has a translucent color and firm texture that holds together.
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Caramelizing takes plain strawberries and intensifies their sweetness, covering them with a buttery sugar glaze ideal for strawberry-topped desserts. Caramelizing involves heating sugar until it it liquefies into a golden brown glaze, but can be done in different ways, depending on what you are preparing.
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Drumsticks are another name for the lower portion of chicken or turkey legs. Some people prefer the drumstick to the white meat of poultry because it offers more taste and dries out less quickly. Seasoning and avoiding overcooking are really the keys to perfectly preparing this dark meat.
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Chilean sea bass feeds on shellfish, squid and small fish in sub-Antarctic waters, and lives to be almost 50 years old. Also known as Patagonian toothfish, some Chilean sea bass weigh nearly 200 pounds.
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Almost anyone can manage to grill a decent steak or hamburger, but cooking chicken on the barbecue is more problematic. All too often it's overcooked and stringy, or charred on the outside but still raw at the bone.
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When you have a sore throat, just swallowing can be painful. A sore throat often accompanies a viral infection, like a cold or the flu, although other viruses, such as chickenpox or the measles may also produce a sore throat.
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Cilantro has a cultivation history that dates back to at least 1500 B.C., as Sanskrit writings from that time indicate. The herb’s seeds, called coriander, are found inside Egyptian pharaohs’ tombs and in Grecian ruins that date back to the Bronze Age about 5,500 years ago.
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Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the leading sexually transmitted infection in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 40 types of this virus can affect men’s and women’s genital areas, leading to genital warts.
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Large Asian pearl tapioca is used in desserts, like old-fashioned tapioca pudding and in Taiwanese bubble, or boba, tea. Cooking methods vary, but cooking completely is essential to achieve a desirable texture, rather than a starchy and unappealing dish.
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