Mastering the kitchen involves understanding healthy fat profiles, variety-specific grain preparation, and safe food handling techniques.
Because the saturated fat in hard fats like butter, shortening and lard are harmful to your health, you may want to use oil in your baked goods instead. Grape oil is low in saturated fat and has a light color and flavor that won't conflict with the other flavors in your cake.
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Since olive oil contains 100 calories per tablespoon, salad dressings that use it as a base are high in calories and fat. Oil helps dressing adhere to the salad ingredients and provides flavor and texture. To make salad dressing without oil, add low-calorie ingredients that have plenty of flavor.
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If you don't have a setup for smoking meat, a smoker and barbecue grill, you might feel you can't have homemade smoked ribs or roast. However, you can do small-scale meat smoking in your oven with just a few supplies.
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You feel the need to do something about your health, to cleanse your body of the accumulation of unhealthy foods, toxins from pollution, smoking, drinking too much coffee, too much sodas or wine or sweet tea, a vegetarian detox diet for a weekend or a whole week can not only cleanse your body but it will give you a jum
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Pesto means paste, and interestingly, so does the word pasta. Pesto refers to a paste of herbs, nuts and oil used to flavor foods. Pasta refers to the dough or paste used to make spaghetti, rigatoni and other dried and fresh pastas.
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Chuck roast is a flavorful cut of beef that needs slow cooking to make it tender. Cooking in a roaster oven is convenient because it is portable. You can plug it in the garage, for instance, if the weather is hot or your kitchen cramped.
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Instant chocolate pudding mix is added to cake mixes to make a very moist cake. It makes a quick pie filling or a parfait dessert when layered with whipped cream and berries.
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Peruano beans are mild beans from Mexico that are light cream, buff or yellow, with a mild taste and creamy texture. They can be used in any recipes that call for navy, canellini or pinto beans. Although the beans are a common ingredient in Latin American cooking, they originated in the Andes Mountains in Peru.
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Opuntia cactus, native to Mexico but now grown in many warm climates, produces two kinds of food: the prickly pear, and nopales or nopalitos, cactus leaves. Nopal is a common ingredient in Mexican and Central American cuisine, and readily available in Hispanic grocery stores.
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Sago pearls are made from the inner pith of the sago palm tree. The inner pith of the trunk is scraped out, pounded into fine particles and then soaked in water, which dissolves the starch from the fiber. The starchy water is strained through a sieve and dried.
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