Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.
Grilling fresh haddock brings out its natural flavor without adding fat, but it can be a frustrating endeavor. Grilled haddock fillets have a delicate texture and too often end up breaking apart and slipping through the grilling rack, no matter how carefully you try to prevent this.
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Frozen pasta is a fast and convenient ingredient to have on hand for those nights when you need a healthy meal in a hurry. Serving frozen pasta provides the carbohydrates needed for energy, and depending on what tortellini or ravioli are stuffed with, can also offer a serving or two of protein.
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Long ago nicknamed “the stinking rose” for its distinctive odor, garlic — one of the world's first cultivated plants — is known for its health benefits. Garlic contains a number of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins B-6 and C, manganese, selenium, calcium, iron, copper and potassium.
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String beans are a quick and nutritious side dish or a colorful and unusual addition to a salad. Farm-fresh produce packs more of a nutritional punch, but keeping frozen vegetables around ensures a healthy meal when there’s no time to shop. Cooking frozen vegetables can be a little tricky.
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Nacho seasoning mix that comes pre-packaged in an envelope or spice jar at the grocery store is inexpensive and convenient, but can contain a lot of unnecessary sodium and sometimes even sugar. Fortunately, it’s not difficult or complicated to make your own nacho spice mix at home.
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Cooking pasta shells is a great start to a simple, nutritious meal. Pasta shell recipes include using small shells in casseroles and soups and stuffing larger ones with anything from blended cheeses to chopped vegetables and chicken, meat or seafood.
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A pseudograin, quinoa is actually the seed of a plant closely related to spinach, beets and chard. It comes in a variety of colors, ranging from orange to black, purple, pink and white, but red and transparent yellow are the two most widely available varieties.
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Cumin, a spice that originated in Egypt, has been a part of the cuisines of the Middle East and India for thousands of years. This little seed, a standard flavor in curries, may also have medicinal properties, although to date most research has been on animals, not humans.
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Garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years -- by ancient Egyptians, gravediggers in the Middle Ages who believed it protected them from black plague, and World War I and World War II soldiers who took it to ward off gangrene.
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Most of the common table sugar you use everyday is made from sugar cane. Sugar is processed in many forms including refined white and unrefined brown, granulated, coarse and instant dissolving. The sweet stalk of natural sugar cane, eaten raw, is a treat for young children with a sweet tooth the world over.
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Olive oil is a gourmet ingredient for cooking because it adds flavor, but it also has healthful benefits. Since ancient times, olive oil has been used as a healing ointment and now it is a proven antioxidant. It only takes one tablespoon per day to benefit from olive oil.
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Dry, cracked lips can be caused by a number of factors, including hot or cold weather, open-mouthed breathing because of illness or habit, dehydration and even allergic reactions to certain kinds of cosmetics.
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It is considered healthy to have anywhere from one to three bowel movements a day, but for many this isn’t the case. Constipation is a condition characterized by infrequent bowel movements that occur less than three times a week, and can be difficult or even painful.
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Sesame oil is widely used in China and India to treat a number of health problems, both internally and externally. How sesame oil is applied depends on your problem and where it needs to be used.
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Healing through the use of sugar is an old-time tradition that has been used by both Native Americans and different tribes in Africa. In 2009, a series of tests were conducted in British hospitals to determine whether there’s any truth behind the idea that sugar can be used to treat wounds and ease pain.
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Wheat germ, the crunchy byproduct from milling whole wheat, makes a nutritious addition to cakes, breads and other baked goods. However, if you're a celiac or keen to avoid gluten, then wheat germ is a no-go. Nonetheless, wheat germ has some health benefits.
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Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that has five carbon atoms. Other sweeteners like sorbitol and glucose have six. While xylitol tastes sweet, dentists like it because it’s not converted to acids that cause tooth decay in the mouth due to its molecular structure.
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Ripe pineapples should be yellow at the base, have no brown spots and should smell sweet at the stem end. They provide many vitamins and minerals; they are a good source of vitamin B6, vitamin C, folate, thiamin, manganese, potassium and dietary fiber.
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Flax seed provides an abundance of nutritional benefits. It is high in fiber, which helps improve your digestive system. Flax seed is also full of alpha-linolenic acid, which is an omega-3 fatty acid that can help combat arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and heart disease.
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Sun tanning has been a popular fashion trend since well-known fashion designer Coco Chanel accidentally introduced it to the fashion scene after spending too much time in the sun while yachting between Paris and Cannes in 1923.
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