Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.
Baked ziti is a great meal to make ahead of time and reheat for your family on busy school nights or when unexpected company shows up for dinner. Save even more time by baking ziti in a freezer-safe casserole dish and then using that dish to both store and reheat the ziti.
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Potatoes are a versatile and customary side dish, whether served fried, sauteed or baked. While baked potatoes require lengthy cooking times in a conventional oven, shredded potatoes, or hash browns, cook quicker, due to their thin size.
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The meat on a chicken is either white or dark, depending upon where it is on the bird. Breast meat is white because it develops more fat over time, unlike the legs, which do the work of carrying the bird around. So a whole or half chicken breast can be quite thick and difficult to pan-fry.
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Although slow-cooking a tri-tip roast wrapped in foil is typically done in the oven, you can just as easily slow-cook it on your grill, ideal on a hot summer day. Tri-tip is a tender, boneless roast, sometimes cut into steaks.
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Fimo clay is a polymer compound that can be reshaped indefinitely with minute detail. Cooking it permanently sets its shape so you can create jewelry, doll faces and appendages, beads and other decorative objects. Correct temperature is an important factor in the success of your Fimo clay project.
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As a whole grain, oats contain a hearty dose of fiber, as well as multiple health-enhancing nutrients, including phosphorous, potassium, manganese and selenium.
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Ginger has a strong, distinct flavor that is often highlighted in Asian dishes and complements sweet salads and fruit dishes. Ginger jam can be served on bread, spooned onto meat or added to rice or salads.
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Adhering to a vegan diet or avoiding eggs for allergy reasons doesn't mean you have to eliminate birthday cakes, chocolate-chip cookies and other baked goods from your diet. Bake cakes and cookies without eggs in a number of ways.
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For most diners, thereβs no harm in indulging in french fries occasionally. Certain techniques and ingredients can even give the fried treat some nutritional value, like cooking them with heart-healthy olive oil.
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Starches and dietary fiber are complex carbohydrates because of their chemical structure, according to Iowa State University. Sources of complex carbohydrates include include beans, lentils, starchy vegetables and whole grains, such as cereal or whole-wheat or multi-grain bread.
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Trader Joe's frozen section is a boon for seafood lovers with a wide variety of shellfish and fin fish. At 38 grams of protein per 4.5 ounce serving and a good dose of omega-3 fatty acids, tuna steaks are a nutrition-packed find for those looking for a mild, but firm-textured fish.
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Brie baked with preserves can be served for either an appetizer or dessert course and makes an eye-catching presentation for any dinner party or special occasion.
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Peruano beans are mild beans from Mexico that are light cream, buff or yellow, with a mild taste and creamy texture. They can be used in any recipes that call for navy, canellini or pinto beans. Although the beans are a common ingredient in Latin American cooking, they originated in the Andes Mountains in Peru.
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White potatoes are hands-down the best option for baking. While waxy varieties like red, yellow and gold potatoes become soft and creamy in the oven, white potatoes have a relatively high starch content and become light and fluffy when baked.
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When fruits ripen, their starch content turns into sugar, according to the "Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition." Naturally occurring sugars like those in apples should account for most of your sugar intake. Apples provide a better source of important nutrients than most foods with added sugars.
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Crock-pots are becoming increasingly more popular as people work longer hours and have less free time to spend on activities like cooking meals. With slow cookers, you can combine all the ingredients into the crock-pot in the morning, allow it to cook all day and come home after work to a piping hot meal.
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Cupcake-sized cheesecakes are a great way to serve individual portions of this rich and creamy dessert for a party; alternatively, you can place uneaten portion into the freezer and serve them to yourself one modest portion at a time. Mini-cheesecakes also make excellent additions to a bake sale.
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Hot Pockets are turnovers filled with savory cheeses, meats and vegetables that are suitable for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The tasty treats, which area available in over 30 varieties, can often be found in the frozen section of your grocery store.
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Rice flour, a gluten-free product that produces many of the same results as wheat flour, possesses its own distinct characteristics. Often used as a thickening agent in cooking, rice flour is also suitable for making crackers, cakes and dumplings.
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Even the best-stocked pantry may lack an ingredient from time to time, especially fruits that ripen quickly, such as bananas. Banana bread's emergence as a popular homemade dessert in the 1930s resulted from a marketing effort to convince customers to buy and use ripe and overripe bananas.
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