Cooking & Baking Tips: Healthy Fats, Grain Prep & Substitutes

Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.

Homemade Biscuits

What Can You Sub for Baking Powder When Making Biscuits?

Baking powder seems mysterious when you don't understand the science. You add a tiny amount to biscuit batter and what would have emerged as a flat, dense hockey puck comes out of the oven a fluffy treat. If you don't have any baking powder around the house, don't fret.

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Jasmine rice in a  bowl on wood table

How to Cook Rice in a Steamer

Steamed rice adds toothsome, nutty -- and, importantly, gluten-free -- substance to health-minded meals. A rice cooker is the ideal tool to cook rice to fluffy perfection, but a resourceful cook has other options: both new-school electronic steamers and decidedly old-school bamboo steamers do the trick brilliantly.

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