How to Steam Vegetables
Steaming is the best way to cook vegetables because it keeps the vegetable's nutrients, taste, texture and color intact. This video goes over the step-by-step process to steam vegetables.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World
Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries—and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out!
• Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories
• Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories
• Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories
• Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories
• Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories
• Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories
• Rockin’ Tuna Melt: 212 calories
• 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories
• Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories
With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make!
And when you’re not in your kitchen, check out HG’s 10 mini survival guides, plus tips ’n tricks that’ll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!
Available at Amazon.com.
Rhodes Cheese Stuffed Focaccia Recipe
Stuffed with seasoning and three kinds of piping-hot cheeses, this Cheese Stuffed Focaccia recipe is a deliciously different addition to any Italian meal.
How to make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Learn how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich with this new startcooking recipe video. Bread, cheese and butter is all you will need to make this delicious sandwich. Enjoy!
Everything Whole Grain, High Fiber Cookbook
Start reaping the benefits of a whole-grain, high-fiber diet! The Everything Whole-Grain, High-Fiber Cookbook is your ultimate one-stop resource for making sure you and your family gets all the yummy whole grains and healthy high fiber you need! You'll enjoy eating healthy like never before with inventive, tasty dishes like:
- Banana-Nut Stuffed French Toast
- Shallot Walnut Herb Bread
- Lasagna Florentine
- Walnut Tarragon Chicken Salad on Raisin Foccacia
- Cranberry Relish
- Cashew Egg Salad Sandwich
- Pumpkin Soup
Available at Amazon.com.
Blue Bunny Peanut Butter Cups Recipe
If you like Peanut Butter Cups, you'll love this decadent frozen version. It's quick, easy and doubly delicious, thanks to new BLUE BUNNY® Peanut Butter Doubles™ Bars.
The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook
The indispensable companion to The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle, featuring more than 200 recipes to help stop diabetes and reverse many of its effects.
With more than 200 vegetarian and vegan dishes, and an emphasis on “good carbs,” plus menus, helpful tips and advice, and full nutritional information, this cookbook will help people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes eat and live well. From breakfast dishes to desserts, every recipe has been created to be low glycemic, low fat (and trans-fat-free), low sodium, and cholesterol-free. Also included are: substitution charts to help readers make the transition to a plant-based diet, a glossary of cooking equipment, an appendix of cooking terms and techniques, and a list of uncommon ingredients with brand name recommendations.
Available at Amazon.com.
The Healthy Dish on Tuna
Why is it that most of us aren’t eating enough fish? The American Heart Association and the United States Department of Agriculture urge all Americans to enjoy at least two servings of seafood per week, but only 10 percent of women do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Long restricted to mom’s tuna casserole or plain tuna sandwiches, canned tuna is making a comeback in trendy gourmet recipes and the diets of health-conscious Americans.
“Americans need to eat more fish for healthier diets and canned light tuna is an excellent entry-level choice,” says Donna Shields, a dietary expert and nutrition consultant for the Tuna Council. “Canned tuna is affordable, easy to find and a snap to prepare. Best of all tuna is a health food – rich in lean protein, vitamins and minerals – that excites the taste buds.”
Tuna has more to offer than just great taste and nutrition. Research has shown that omega-3s, found in abundance in fish like canned tuna, offer important health benefits including the following:
* Brain power:
Omega-3s help boost brain development in babies and young children. For new moms, omega-3s may help prevent or manage postpartum depression. And omega-3s may also slow the loss of memory as people age.
*Heart health:
Fish high in omega-3s, like canned tuna, have been shown to greatly reduce heart disease, the number one killer of men and women. Other heart health benefits include reduced risk of stroke, lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol.
* Disease prevention:
Selenium is an essential mineral and antioxidant found in fish. Antioxidants protect the body from damage caused by harmful molecules called free radicals. Many experts believe this damage is a factor in the development of blood vessel disease, cancer and other conditions. Emerging science suggests selenium may also have a neutralizing effect on the trace amounts of mercury found in fish.
* Improved energy and movement:
B vitamins, found in tuna, help maintain and build red blood cells and increase circulation and energy levels. The nutrients in fish may also alleviate arthritis pain.
* Work out power house:
Fitness gurus have long praised tuna because it is high in protein and, unlike many other high protein foods, naturally low in fat. Protein helps build muscles and aids in tissue repair. Tuna is so high in protein that just one six-ounce can has a third of the recommended daily amount
Doctors and dietitians agree that, while nearly all fish contain traces of mercury, the healthful nutrients in seafood outweigh concerns. Both light and albacore canned tuna have levels of mercury far below the federal safety limit.
“The Food and Drug Administration highlights canned light tuna as a popular lower mercury choice. The average mercury in canned light tuna is eight times lower than the FDA’s conservative limit. Plus, the tuna companies monitor mercury levels, so you know you are safe,” comments Shields.
Ready to serve tuna to your family? There are a number of quick and easy ideas. Try a simple tuna sandwich with chopped olives, tuna penne pasta with tomato sauce or something more exotic like a delicious vegetable and tuna stir fry.
Short on time? Tuna now comes in a variety of on-the-go convenient packaging including individual serving cups, pouches and in ready-to-serve flavors like lemon-pepper.
For more information on tuna and the importance of fish in a healthy diet, visit www.tunafacts.com.
Tuna Cakes with Savory Tartar Sauce
Yield: serves 4 to 6
Special Equipment:
Food processor
Large, nonstick skillet
Spatter shield to prevent popping, while pan-frying
For the tartar sauce:
1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1/2 cup minced sweet yellow onion
1/3 cup minced drained capers
1/3 cup minced, drained (jarred) roasted red pimento
1/3 cup minced gherkin pickles
2 tablespoons each: minced fresh chives and cilantro
2 tablespoons jalapeno spread (jarred minced pickled jalapenos, available in the supermarket)
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For the tuna cakes:
24 ounces well-drained canned tuna, flaked with a fork
2 firm-cooked eggs, peeled and chopped small
1/2 cup minced celery
1/2 gently packed cup soft bread crumbs (remove the crusts from 2 slices of sturdy white bread and pulverize slices in the food processor)
Kosher or sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 rounded cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
1/3 cup sesame seeds
Flavorless vegetable oil, as needed
For garnish: chopped chives and/or cilantro
Directions:
1. To make the tartar sauce: Combine all of the listed ingredients and set aside.
2. To assemble the tuna cakes: Mix the flaked tuna, the chopped cooked egg, celery, soft breadcrumbs and salt and pepper, to taste. Mix into this 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon of the tartar sauce and, when well combined, add salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate the tuna mixture for an hour or so, just to help it bind together. Line a plate or a tray with wax paper and place on another tray the panko mixed with the sesame seeds and some pepper, to taste. One by one, form the chilled tuna mixture into 4 quite large or 6 medium portions and shape into patties, coating each one well on both sides with the crumb mixture. Place each cake, as it’s formed, on the wax-paper-lined plate. When done, place the tuna cakes and the reserved crumbs, separately in the refrigerator, until ready to pan-fry. Reserve the remaining tartar sauce for serving at the table.
3) To pan-fry the tuna cakes and serve: Line a baking sheet with a wire rack. Heat a large non-stick skillet with enough oil to come half way up the sides of the tuna cakes (the amount of oil will vary depending on the size of your skillet) and heat the oil to hot. While the oil is heating, re-coat each tuna cake in the reserved crumb mixture, patting to help the crumbs adhere to both sides. Fry the cakes in the hot oil, until golden and heated through, turning once, and drain on the rack, placed over the baking sheet. (While cooking the tuna cakes, to prevent hot oil from popping, due to the addition of sesame seeds, place a large spatter shield over the skillet). Serve the tuna cakes hot, garnished with additional chopped chives and/or cilantro, with the reserved tartar sauce, passed at the table.
Timing is Everything:
* The tartar sauce can be made a few days ahead and kept in the refrigerator, covered.
* The tuna cakes can be made a day ahead and kept in the refrigerator, well covered.
Nutritional information (per tuna cake serving)
510 calories, 20g fat (3g saturated, 1.29g omega-3), 690mg sodium, 35g carbohydrate, 44g protein, vitamin A 4 percent, calcium 15 percent, iron 25 percent
Nutritional information (per 1 Tbsp savory tartar sauce)
40 calories, 4g fat (0g saturated, 0g omega-3), 130mg sodium, 1g carbohydrate, 0 g protein, vitamin A 2 percent
Courtesy of ARAcontent
How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Anyone can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but can they make a good one? Here's how to do it.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make
Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candies from the local convenience store. Americas favorite food photography team, responsible for the covers of Americas top magazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticated masterpieces, using a zipper lock bag and common candies and snack items.With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a kids birthday plant candy vegetables on Oreo earth cupcakes for a garden party trot out a line of confectionery pupcakes for a dog fancier serve sausage and pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fools Day bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes create holidays on icing with turkey cupcake place cards, a white cupcake Christmas wreath, and Easter egg cupcakes. No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun.
Available at Amazon.com.
How To Hard-Boil an Egg So It Peels Easily
Have you ever thrown out a perfectly good hard-boiled egg because you got so frustrated trying to peel it? Here's how to cook the perfectly-peelable egg.
Cinnamon Roll Ring Recipe
Swirling cinnamon rolls in a beautiful ring arrangement will add an elegant touch to your Easter brunch.
Leg Of Lamb Recipe
Impress guests—or just your family—with this easy yet looks-like-you-went-to-a-lot-o f-trouble leg of lamb.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Betty Crocker Ultimate Bisquick Cookbook
If you love the convenience and great taste of food made with Bisquick, you'll love this book! It's jam-packed with 300 delicious Bisquick recipes—280 that have never before appeared in a Bisquick book, plus some of the all-time favorites and back-of-the-box standbys. Inside, you'll find lots of terrific ideas for breakfasts, dinners, desserts and more, including:
- Satisfying Breakfasts: from Spicy Pumpkin Pancakes to Banana-Nut Waffles and Cheesy Chile and Egg Bake
- Comforting Casseroles: from Philly Beef Squares to Fajita Chicken Pot Pie and Louisiana-Style Shrimp Casserole
- 30-Minute Dinners: from Barbecue Beef Cheese Melts to Buffalo-Style Chicken Nuggets and Turkey Cornbread Tostadas
- Delightful Heart Smart Dinners for Two: from Curried Country Chicken to Fall Pork Dinner and Santa Fe Foldover
- Impossibly Easy Pies and Pizzas: from Impossibly Easy Sloppy Joe Pie to Impossibly Easy Quesadilla Pie and Bewitched Double-Crust Cheese Pizza
- Delicious Desserts: from Frosted Chocolate Malt Cupcakes to Impossibly Easy Toffee Bar Cheesecake and Peanut Butter–Chocolate Chip Bars
You also get tips on perfecting Bisquick favorites like pancakes, muffins and biscuits as well as a brief history of Bisquick over the decades. With more than double the number of recipes found in any other Bisquick cookbook along with over 100 tempting colorphotographs, this is truly the Ultimate Bisquick Cookbook!
Available at Amazon.com.
Daal Makhani Recipe
In this video, learn how to make Dall Makhani which is a popular Indian restaurant dish.
Chicken Taco Patties Recipe
This easy spin on chicken tacos will please kids and parents alike! It’s easy to control the heat on these babies – just serve the jalapenos, taco sauce and extra onion on the side!
Ingredients:
1 pound ground chicken
1 cup chopped onion, plus more for serving
2 tablespoons finely chopped canned jalapeno chiles
1 tablespoon chili powder (a palmful)
1 tablespoon grill seasoning (a palmful)
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO)
1 cup shredded Monterrey jack cheese
4 whole wheat hamburger buns
1 romaine lettuce heart, shredded
1 cup taco sauce
Directions:
- In a medium bowl, combine the chicken, 1 cup onion, jalapenos, chili powder, grill seasoning and garlic. Form four patties.
- Have a Grown-Up Helper (GH) heat the EVOO, 1 turn of the pan, in a skillet over medium heat. Have your GH add the patties and cook for 4 minutes on each side. When they’re almost done, top each patty with a mound of cheese and cook until melted. Layer the bun bottoms with the lettuce, a chicken patty, taco sauce, extra onion and a bun top.
For additional recipes go to http://www.rachaelraymag.com/
Aloo Gobi Masala Recipe
Aloo Gobi Masala is a flavorful Indian vegetarian dish made with Potatoes and Cauliflower. It is perfect with Chapatti or Paratha or even with rice and daal. Try this delicious recipe and you'll never call Cauliflower bland again!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Food Network Favorites: Recipes from Our All-Star Chefs
No need to go out for dinner any more. This cookbook brings 120 restaurant-quality recipes, reliable cooking tips and easy instructions from some of today's hottest Food Network chefs like Paula Deen and Wolfgang Puck right into your kitchen. Bonus features include question and answer sessions with the featured chefs about favorite foods and secrets from their kitchens.
Available at Amazon.com.
Baked Chicken Recipe
Baked Chicken Recipe
Patti shows you how she cooks her home raised chicken. Simple and easy slow food.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
New York Style Cheesecake Recipe
A classic with a sour cream topping - plan ahead, takes two days but its worth it.
Irish Coffee Recipe
After dinner, after hours, or even after a long St. Patrick's Day, Irish coffee is the one delicious pick-me-up you won't find at your local coffeehouse.
Easter Egg Dinner Rolls Recipe
Decorative Easter dinner rolls are as egg-citing as they are easy with this colorful egg-wash recipe.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
St. Patrick's Day Nutty Irishman Recipe
Anthony and Stephanie show you how to make a Nutty Irishman for your St. Patrick's Day celebration!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Tuna Melt Sandwiches Recipe
Tuna melt sandwiches are a delicious and comforting meal that you can customize with your favorite breads and cheeses. See how to make a mouth-watering tuna melt at home.
How to Fry an Egg
How do you like your eggs? Sunny-side up, over easy, medium, or hard? Learn how to fry an egg with startcooking.com. This Tips and Techniques video will teach you the basics of frying an egg no matter what your preference is.
Irish Coffee Recipe
How To Make An Irish Coffee
Irish Coffee is a traditional taste of the Emerald Isle, with a powerful whiskey kick. So popular that the Irish host an annual festival in its honour! Sample our Irish Coffee.
Roast Beef Barbecue Recipe
Rib Roast gettin' pricey? Don't fret -try this quick and easy to do, but real tender and moist Beef Bottom Round roast using the simple techniques taught by the BBQ Pit Boys.
Chicago Deep Dish Pizza Recipe
If you're a pizza lover, then you have to try this mega pie. Made in the Chicago deep dish style, you'll need both hands to eat up this amazing stuffed pizza.
Beef Stew Recipe
Heather Johnston, popular video blogger for the home chef, demonstrates how to make an easy but sophisticated and delicious beef stew, and pairs it with two red wines.
Lime Salmon Recipe
Watch as weight management consultant Darlene Nicholson prepares her easy and healthy lime salmon dinner.
Punjabi Chola Recipe
Learn how to make Punjabi Chola in this video from Manjula.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup chickpeas (Garbanzo beans, Kabuli chana)
2 tea bags
3 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon cumin
1 tablespoon basen (Gram flour)
2 medium tomatoes
1 green chilly
1/2 shredded ginger
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon salt adjust to the taste
1/2 teaspoon black salt
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 teaspoon amchoor (Mango powder)
Tipperary Recipe
A fabulous Irish drink with whiskey and Chartreuse. A Manhattan is dandy, but in the summertime you want a cocktail with a bang to it! There are three variants: the Tipperary, the Shamrock, and the Everybody's Irish. Tackle the first one today!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Grilled Pork Chops Recipe
Watch one of the BBQ Pit Boys show you how to keep your barbecue bone-in center-cut pork chops from drying out, while serving up some butter roasted potatoes, onion and mushrooms as a side dish.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
One Pan Lamb Recipe
One Pan Lamb - this quick and easy lamb recipe can be made in a few minutes. Using arrabiata sauce one pan lamb is a simple dinner recipe. We used 4 lamb chump chops for this lamb recipe which serves 4.
Bellini Recipe
Invented in 1948 at Harry's Bar in Venice, the Bellini's name honors the sheer pink shades in the work of Italian painter Giovanni Bellini. It's also a great drink to celebrate slightly lesser art forms—like, say, brunch.
Stuffed Reuben Pie Recipe
The classic Reuben sandwich is baked into a piping-hot, deep-dish delight in our Stuffed Reuben Pie recipe.
Lamb Fajitas Recipe
Fajitas are the perfect easy mexican recipe: these lamb fajitas are simple to make. Here's how to make Fuss Free lamb fajitas using 4 lamb leg steaks.
Pina Colada Recipe
Do you like Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain? Making love at midnight and cheesy love song refrains? Here's how to satisfy your tropical thirst—for the other stuff, check a dating service.
Inside Out California Roll Recipe
True to its name, this rolled sushi was invented in California by an enterprising Japanese sushi chef in the early 1970s.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Pork Stew with Cracked Pepper Dumplings Recipe
Tender pork, mushrooms and butternut squash.
Note: dumplings need 1 tsp baking powder, which was not show.
Pizza Lamb Steaks Recipes
Lamb steaks topped with mozzarella cheese, ham and rosemary. Using one lamb leg steak per person, these pizza lamb leg steaks serve 4 people.
Chinatown Stir Fry Recipe
This chinatown lamb stir fry is a quick, easy lamb recipe. We've used lamb neck fillet, but you could use any cut of lamb in this delicious stir fry recipe.
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