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.

roasted pork shoulder on the bone with potatoes

How to Deep-Fry a Pork Shoulder in Peanut Oil

Deep-frying a pork shoulder in peanut oil locks in flavor and moisture, while providing a crisp exterior. Not only does peanut oil provide you with calcium, vitamin E, iron, potassium and magnesium, it has a high smoking point, keeping the oil from smoking and burning your food.

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How to Cook Noodles in a Pressure Cooker

Steam trapped inside a pressure cooker builds to 15 lb. per square inch. This causes water to boil at 250 degrees Fahrenheit rather than 212 degrees in an uncovered pot. The higher temperature inside the pressure cooker allows foods to cook in one-third less time than it would take to cook foods normally.

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ladles and lentils

How to Cook Lentils in a Pressure Cooker

Lentils belong to the legumes class of vegetables that also includes peas and beans. Lentils, like their cousins, are low in fat, contain no cholesterol and offer high amounts of potassium, magnesium and folate, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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How to Bake a Cake in a Pampered Chef Stone

Baking a cake in a Pampered Chef stone is not much different than baking a cake in any other piece of bakeware, but the stone distributes the heat, allowing the cake to bake evenly.

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How to Cook Shish Kebab on the Grill

You can cook your entire meal on a grill all at once using skewers and squares of food items to create shish kebabs. Mixing your favorite fruits, vegetables and meats together can make for an exceptionally tasty meal because the flavors intermingle as they cook.

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Dulce de leche

How to Pressure Cook Sweetened Condensed Milk

A pressure cooker can cook sweetened condensed milk, transforming it into caramelized milk, or Dulce de Leche, in less than a third of the time it would take to make the sweet dessert spread traditionally in an open saucepan. A pressure cooker uses steam and pressure, at 15 lbs.

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