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.

How to Cook a Rack of Lamb for a Barbecue

Lamb is a non-gamey tasting meat that is tender and rich in flavor. Lamb is most often cooked rare or medium rare. When buying your rack of lamb, choose a pink to pale red cut that has firm white marbling. A rack of lamb has eight ribs which are usually stripped of all meat and tendons for a prettier presentation.

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Jack cut in half.

How to Cook Jackfruit

Jackfruit is a fruit that grows up to 100 pounds on large trees in Malaysia, Thailand and other Pacific Rim countries. The fruit rind discourages predators with its prickly cones, probably one of the reasons along with its foul, ripened smell that the jackfruit is overlooked by some as a viable fruit to consume.

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How to Keep Hamburgers Warm in a Crock-Pot

Crock-Pot is the brand name of the original slow cooker. It uses a ceramic bowl kept at moderate heating temperatures to cook dishes over a long period of time. Crock-Pots are widely used for meals such as stews, soups and vegetable dishes. You can also use the Crock-Pot to keep meat warm and at a safe temperature.

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Meat steak, pork fillet fried with golden cheese crust, rice

How to Cook Cap Steak

Cap steak is a sirloin cut taken from the triangular muscle sitting right over the top sirloin cut near the back of the cow. It is a juicy, tender cut that doesn’t need much flavor added but does absorb flavors of marinades and dry rubs well before grilling or broiling.

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How to Cook Center Cut Chuck Steak

Center cut steak is a steak cut from the chuck seven-bone pot roast at the upper shoulder of the cow. Though not the most tender cut of beef, it is an economical choice when cooking steak on a budget. This is a tough meat cut that is best cooked after marinading in your favorite sauces and spices.

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How to Cook Corn on the Cob on a Smoker

When cooking a meal, the more you can cook at the same time or in the same convention, the simpler the prep, monitoring and cleanup are. Smoking corn on the cob while smoking ribs or other meats not only makes things easier, it can also add some subtle flavors to the smoked corn from the meat.

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Portion of tasty lasagna on a plate

How to Reheat Lasagna in the Oven

Most lasagna recipes are for a pan serving 8 to 10 people. Lasagna is a bit tricky because of the many layers to warm and the outer cheese might get burnt or coagulate if you aren't careful.

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