For those who regard cooking fish as difficult and demanding, frozen pollock is a gift. Delicately-flavored and fine-textured, frozen pollock is customarily cooked without thawing, making it easy for beginning fish cooks to handle.

If you have purchased frozen catfish fillets, you might be wondering what you can do with them. You can thaw catfish fillets to fry them, but you don't need to thaw them, unless the fillets were frozen without breading and you would like to bread them. Instead, fry your frozen fillets as is.

Puff pastry is pre-made flaky pastry dough that you can cut into pieces to form into mini-shells for appetizers or desserts. Making the pastry into shells lets you create individual delicacies that are easy to both serve and eat.

When it comes to adding rice to soup, there is no one way to do it. Whether to cook the rice first depends on your recipe, when you want to add the rice and the variety of rice you are using. Ultimately, you want the rice to be done but not cooked so long that it turns your soup into a gummy concoction.

Start to Finish: 4 hours active, 12 hours inactive Servings: 4 to 6 Difficulty: Moderate

A pig's heart is one of the animal's most active organs, so it's quite lean. It has a rich, dense flavor, especially when it's fresh and the fat is trimmed away ahead of time. Once it's ready, draw out that flavor by cooking it one of two ways: slow and low or fast and flashy.

Breakfast sausage links are produced from a blend of lean ground pork, pork fat and spices. Generally smaller and milder in flavor than their Italian or Polish cousins, the sausages are sold in two forms: partially cooked that require very little cooking time, and raw uncooked links that must be thoroughly cooked.

Pork chops are a nutritious choice for any mealtime. One loin chop contains less than 200 calories and is full of protein and vitamins and minerals such as thiamin and selenium. Grilling your meat on the George Foreman grill helps to reduce fat because the excess fat drips off the meat as you cook it.

Pork-jowl bacon doesn't differ much from pork-belly bacon, except for one thing: technically, it's offal. Although you wouldn't know by its appearance -- both jowl bacon and regular bacon are cured and smoked -- pork-jowl bacon comes from the inside of the pork cheek, just below the eye.

A type of quick bread made from sweet, ripe bananas, banana bread is irresistibly moist and delicious. Banana bread is simple to make, but proper cooling is important, because the bananas caramelize and become sticky during the cooking process. As a result, the bread can be difficult to remove from the pan.

Evaporated cane sugar is intended to be a less-processed, more nutritious form of cane sugar than either white sugar or brown sugar. The process of refining white and brown sugar strips either sugar cane or sugar beets down to just the pure sugar, with none of the minerals that are originally present in the plant.

Low in both calories and fat, canned pumpkin is a healthy substitute for oil and eggs in a variety of baked goods. With a bright orange color and creamy consistency, canned pumpkin can be effortlessly added to mixes for cakes, cookies, breads and brownies.