Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.
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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Making your own liquid gel capsules gives you the opportunity to fill the capsules with your choice of liquid herbs or vitamins and know exactly what you’re including in your dosage. Traditionally gel capsules are made from bovine skin and bones, but gel capsule are available for the vegetarian.
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A deficiency of vitamin B12 in your diet can lead to digestive tract issues whose symptoms can include abdominal bloating and gas. Fortunately, it's possible to increase the amount of B12 you ingest through foods, supplements and prescribed injections to help alleviate the gas and bloating that a lack of B12 can cause.
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Dried pomegranate seeds, known as anardana, are used in a variety of ways. They are rich in vitamins C, K and 6. They also contain the minerals potassium and copper. You can purchase sun-dried anardana in packages much like you would sun-dried raisins or cranberries.
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A convection toaster oven circulates heat around the food to decrease cooking time and use less energy than a regular oven. Baking sweet potatoes in the convection toaster oven takes about 1/3 less time than in a conventional oven, allowing you to enjoy the lower-calorie potato more often. A 3 1/2-oz.
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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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The Big Green Egg ceramic grill is designed to let you grill, smoke and bake using one product rather than three. The thick ceramic walls retain heat, allowing you to cook your meats longer at lower temperatures, much like a smoker, but opening the lid gives you the convenience of a traditional charcoal grill.
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The gentle cooking method of poaching allows heat from simmering liquids to cook delicate meats, such as fish, without destroying the integrity of the meat. Poaching smoked cod is not much different than poaching other fish; however, you must remove the excess salt from the meat.
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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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A roaster oven is a versatile cooking appliance that allows you to roast, bake, steam and slow cook, replacing many of the appliances in your kitchen.
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Creating your own molding chocolate from cocoa power allows you to control the ingredients and easily make adjustments for nutrition. Cocoa beans come from the fruit of the cocoa tree and contain about 54 percent fat, 11 percent protein and 31 percent carbohydrates.
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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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Sauerkraut, a popular dish in Germany, is pickled white cabbage, both salty and sour. The salt monopoly during Fredrick the Great’s reign may have led to the way in which to preserve sauerkraut, thus creating its flavor, according to “The Home Book of German Cookery.
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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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Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, helps heal wounds, repairs tissue and produces protein to make skin, tendons and blood vessels. Deficiencies in vitamin C may present in the form of gingivitis, dry skin, easy bruising and the inability to fight off infections.
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Finding alternative ways to cook potatoes and keep them healthy can be a challenge. A baked potato cries out for sour cream, butter, bacon, chives and cheese, turning the healthy tuber into a cholesterol-raising time bomb, and fried potatoes aren’t much better.
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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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A convection oven uses air, in addition to the heating elements, to cook your food. A third heating element inside the oven heats the air and a fan circulates the air around the food.
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Bratwurst is a type of pork sausage that originates from Germany. Different geographical areas of the country have their own way of cooking and seasoning it. Bratwurst is available in pork, chicken, beef and veal varieties.
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed sardines on its Super Green fish list, which includes only seafood with low levels of contaminants, less than 216 parts per billion, and those that offer at least 250 milligrams of omega-3s. Boneless, skinless sardines offer 24.
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