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.

How to Boil Lasagna Sheets

Cook a homemade lasagna for dinner and you'll cut back on the salt and preservatives found in the frozen lasagnas you'll find at the grocery store. You can use whole wheat noodles and low-fat cheese to make a homemade lasagna healthier.

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Side Effects of Pinto Beans

Pinto beans can be a healthy protein source. Eating 1/2 cup of pinto beans adds 8 g of protein to your daily intake. You will also get 8 g of dietary fiber without any fat or cholesterol from 1/2 cup of plain cooked pinto beans.

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Thick Raw T-Bone Steak

How to Cook a Steak in a Convection Oven

Convection ovens work like regular ovens, except convection models have large fans that constantly circulate hot air through the ovens. Since hot air is constantly hitting each part of your food as you cook in a convection oven, your food cooks faster and more evenly that it would in a traditional oven.

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white kidney bean

How to Cook Cannellini Beans

Cannellini beans are large, white Italian beans that have a creamy texture when cooked. Enjoy cooked cannellini beans in chili, soups, stews or bean salads. Use canned cannellini beans, which are already cooked, when you are in a hurry, or save money by cooking your own dried beans.

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Freshly fried homemade Wiener Schnitzel, Austrian dish

How to Cook Frozen Schnitzel

Frozen schnitzel makes an easy weeknight meal. You can find frozen schnitzel made with chicken, pork or veal at any grocery store. The healthiest way to cook frozen schnitzel is to bake the frozen meat in a hot oven.

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