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.
While you can eat a fully cooked ham cold, heating it gives it a richer taste. You can even add seasonings or rubs to amplify the flavor. Because it heats up slowly and can lock in the moisture when heated properly, your crock pot is a perfect cooking vessel to heat your fully cooked ham.
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Baking drumsticks in the oven on properly prepared cookware ensures the meat doesn't stick to the dish. Lubrication methods vary depending on whether you use cookware with a nonstick finish or one without.
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MayoClinic.com advises eating more grains, such as those in old-fashioned thick rolled oats. When combined with fruit, the cooked oats make for a complete, nutritious breakfast. Rolled oats are a source of complex carbohydrates and essential vitamins and minerals, and they are low in fat.
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Crock-Pots have the reputation of being the cooking vessel that you can leave and forget. When you come back, the meat should be cooked and tender. But even Crock-Pots can turn a piece of meat into a dry, tough, unappetizing meal.
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Deer meat is naturally low in fat but high in protein. While it's a red meat, it has a calorie, protein, fat and cholesterol content similar to salmon.
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Use a dehydrator to make crispy potatoes similar in texture -- but healthier -- than salted-and-fried potato chips. Potatoes have as much or more potassium than bananas, broccoli or spinach. They are also a source of vitamin C, magnesium, iron and zinc.
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Cook frozen beef patties in a frying pan with both health and safety in mind. Using a nonstick pan to fry the patties means no extra unhealthy fats are needed to keep the burgers from sticking to the pan. When buying frozen beef patties, choose products that are 90 percent lean or higher.
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Butternut squash, a yellow to tan colored winter squash, is free of fat, cholesterol and sodium. It's also a source of fiber, magnesium, potassium and vitamins A and C. One half cup of uncooked cubes has 2 grams of fiber, 1 gram of protein and only 50 calories.
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Keep cooked macaroni and cheese warm in a crockpot for serving at a potluck or anytime you need the dish to stay warm for hours. Spraying the crockpot insert with nonstick cooking spray prevents the macaroni from sticking to the insert without adding extra calories and fat.
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Understanding the difference between the cannellini and kidney beans can help you decide if a substitution is possible, depending largely on the recipe you are using and how the beans are prepared. The beans have some similarities that make them interchangeable in some dishes.
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The best recourse for not cutting into an unripe mango is to know how to avoid buying an under-ripe mango in the first place. But if you still happen to cut into one that is not sufficiently ripe, it's still salvageable.
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Sugar adds sweetness to tomato sauce and offsets any strong or tart flavors. Adding too much sugar to tomato sauce is not only unhealthy, but also can make the flavor unappetizing. If the sauce is too sugary for your tastes, add lemon to neutralize the sugar rather than throwing out the sauce.
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Jello-O jigglers, the name for Jell-O made into shapes, are a hand-held snacks that can be made in any flavor or shape. Selecting different flavors of Jello-O to make jigglers provides the option to customize the color to the shape desired.
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Romaine lettuce's high water content means there is no long-term preservation method suitable for making the lettuce last longer. Drying, canning and freezing all produce inedible results. For the best nutritional value, romaine lettuce is best served when it's fresh, green and crisp.
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Smoothies, particularly the ones made with coarse greens such as kale and collards, have a less than smooth consistency. Even when making smoothies with fruit, yogurt and other ingredients, the smoothie may not turn out smooth if it isn't blended long enough or in the proper manner.
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A slow cooker offers the ideal means to cook hot dogs and keep them warm for your fundraising event. The hot dogs stay moist and develop a browned crust while cooking in the slow cooker.
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Low heat and long cooking times are essential for tender beef. Slow roasting the beef in cast-iron cookware increases the iron content in the meat, for an added health bonus, since cast-iron cookware transfers the iron minerals into any food cooked in it.
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The manufacturers of slow cookers, as well as university extension offices, do not advise reheating food directly in the appliance. Because a slow cooker takes several hours to heat food, it's not only time-consuming to use the appliance for reheating food but possibly unsafe.
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Since flax is extra high in omega-3 fatty acids, it's known as beneficial to lowering LDL cholesterol levels, may boost immunity and as a dietary supplement can reduce dry skin and eczema breakouts. Most healthy oils, including the essential fatty oils found in flax, have a short shelf life.
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Soy milk has a limited lifespan, and once it goes bad the texture and taste are unappetizing. Accidentally drinking or mixing the spoiled milk into a dish is sure to ruin your appetite. Soy milk is sold in both unrefrigerated and refrigerated varieties, but both require refrigeration once the container is opened.
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