Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

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.

Can You Cook a Beef Rump Roast in a Slow Cooker?

Beef rump roast, which is cut from the primal round in the animal's hindquarter, benefits from long, moist-heat cooking. Slow cooking breaks down the well-exercised protein strands and gristle in beef rump roast.

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Eggshell as a Source of Calcium

Survivalists, homestead and commercial farmers, pet owners and people interested in natural healing all tout eggshells as a source of calcium in the diet. Extracting the calcium takes time, but costs far less than supplements or fertilizers, an attractive economic option.

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Bitter Melon Gourd: More Nutrients Raw or Cooked?

The astringent, good-for-you leaf tips of the bitter melon, called ampalaya in the Philippines, kerala in India and balsam pear in China, provide calcium, potassium, vitamin C, folate and vitamins A and K, while the warty-looking pods also provide choline and lutein+zaxanthan.

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ginger tea with honey and lemon

Health Benefits of Lemon Ginger Tea

Lemon-ginger tea is an infusion of lemon juice and ginger root rather than a true tea. True teas are made by steeping leaves of various herbs in hot water, usually in a steel tea strainer or cloth-like bag.

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How to Cook Yellow Split Peas

Whether you are eating less meat, developing a vegan palate or starting a gluten-free diet, split yellow peas are a healthy source of protein, carbohydrate, fiber and some B vitamins. Also known as pulses, yellow split peas do not require the lengthy soaking that other dried legumes need.

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Fruit bread and a bowl of various dry fruits

How to Bake Banana Bread Without Bananas

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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Can You Use a Frying Pan As a Baking Pan?

Frying pans or skillets are typically used to saute, pan-fry or sear foods. Certain situations may lead you to use a frying pan for other uses, such as baking. Electric and stove-top pans typically have flat bottoms and deep, flared or straight sides, a convenient shape and size for some baked dishes.

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Chicken soup with noodles

How Can Leftover Juice From Cooking Chicken in a Crock Pot Be Used?

The flavor-packed juices leftover from slow-cooking chicken enhance any non-dessert dish. Once you observe a few important safety considerations, you can freeze leftover chicken juices in an ice cube tray, plastic zipper bag or other freezer-safe container for last-minute use.

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How to Cook Soy Chorizo

Soy chorizo's zesty flavor and easy preparation make it a must-have in vegan pantries. Your vegan friends and family will appreciate your effort to accommodate their needs even if you are carnivorous. Sold in 10-oz.

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Corned Beef And Cabbage Dinner

Can I Cook Cabbage, Potatoes & Carrots Separately From Corned Beef?

Coordinating cooking times of various ingredients maintains color, texture and vitamin content. Corned beef brisket requires long, medium-temperature cooking in liquid to make it tender and tasty. Starchy vegetables, such as potatoes and carrots, become mushy long before the meat finishes cooking.

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baked lasagna

Can You Make a Lasagna & Cook it the Next Day?

Garfield the Cat's perennial favorite food, deep-dish Italian lasagna, takes a lot of time to prepare. From boiling the noodles to searing the meat and combining the cheese, eggs and spinach, depending on your favorite ingredients, lasagna can take up to an hour or more to be assembled before cooking in the oven.

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How to Cook Italian Sausage Links to Add to Spaghetti

The caramelized surface of browned Italian sausage links allows you to eliminate added salt from your spaghetti sauce, while the sausage's sweet anise and fennel seed and the zesty red pepper flakes give the dish a punch of flavor.

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