Health benefits of onions

You can buy onions from the supermarket in red, white and even purple colors. The colored onions add color and visual appeal to your dishes. The red/purplish onions are known to be spicier and the white ones are generally hotter than yellow onions. Yellow onions are usually sweeter, milder and juicier to eat than any of the other varieties. They can also be bought in many different sizes from your store.

Broccoli

Broccoli is a truly super vegetable

Broccoli is more nutritious per bite than any other vegetable. Broccoli contains Vitamin C and Vitamin A (in Beta-Cardone form) which are both well known to be active in the fight against heart diseases and several cancers such as lung, colon and breast cancer.

Peppers are high in Vitamin C, Capsaican, and Lycopene

Many peppers contain three times more Vitamin C than some citrus fruits

Peppers, you can buy them in all shapes, varieties and colours. There are the Bell Peppers, the most common ones of all, the Jalapeno Pepper and Chili Peppers. This vegetable can be green, red, yellow and sometimes even orange in colour. They can taste sweet, hot or mild, but rest assured there is a pepper out there to suit your tastebuds. The Bell Pepper contains large amounts of Vitamin C, a small red, yellow and a orange one will contain 3 times more Vitamin C then some citrus fruits and they say the hotter the pepper the more Vitamin C it contains!

Tomatoes

Tomatoes contain anti-oxidants that absorb free radicals

Beafsteak, Cherry, Vine and Pear are among the many different types of tomatoes you can buy. Eating tomatoes raw, from a tin or cooked are very beneficial to you in your everyday diet, as they contain many vitamins such as A,C,E and K. In eating tomatoes, you are absorbing the many vitamins and flavonoids that can help in combating the harmful effects of free radcials that cause cell damage.

Candied Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potato tubers are flavorful, creamy, and high in fiber, vitamin C and other vitamins, and contain antioxidants. Plain sweet potatoes are naturally sweet without adding sweeteners, yet fairly low in calories (but not in this recipe!) This is a highly nutritious vegetable that should be eaten more often all year long, and not reserved just for holiday dishes.

Pressure Cooking

Pressure cooking is a method of cooking in which the boiling temperature of water is increased using a special vessel, causing the food to cook faster. Cooking times can be reduced by a factor of three or four.

Pickling Cooking Technique

Pickling is the preservation of food in acid. It is used to preserve vegetables, fruit, fish, herbs, meat, and even hard-boiled eggs.

Grilling

Grilling is an ambiguous term that can mean:

Double-sided Frying
Broiling (British English usage)
Barbecuing
Recipes that use some form of grilling

Milk

Milk can be bought in many different varieties

Milk can be bought plain with full fat cream, half cream or with no cream at all. Full fat milk contains 3.25% of fat, semi-skimmed milk contains 1-2% fat and skimmed milk contains no fat at all, so if you are on a diet, take the skimmed milk option on your cereal and in your tea and coffee. The best way for small children to drink milk, is to flavour it with either chocolate, strawberry or banana syrup.

Fish is a good source of Omega 3 fatty acids

Fish are an important source of Omega 3 fatty acids

Fish contain the right type of fats, these are known as Omega 3 fatty acids which are polyunsaturated fats. Omega 3 fats are the preferred choice of soluble fat to digest then Omega 6, which can be found in most red meats. To gain the most benefit in our bodys, we need to intake the right balance of both Omega 3 and Omega 6 fats.

History and Nutritional Value of Sweet Potatoes and Yams

The sweet potato is only very distantly related to the yam, and is actually a type of morning glory.

Smoking food

Smoking is a slow form of cooking that can pack in more flavour than probably any other form. It involves soaking the ingredient, whether it be fish, meat or vegetables, in the smoke of an aromatic wood.

Poaching cooking technique

Poaching is a method of cooking that employs a liquid, usually a small amount, that is hot but not actually bubbling. The French term is frisonne – shivering.

Outdoor Cooking

Outdoor cooking takes many forms; from basic cooking over a simple camp-fire to gormet meals prepared on equipment that rivals that found in modern kitchens. Wood, charcol, propane gas or piped in natural gas may fuel the cooking devices.

Frying Cooking Technique

Frying is the cooking of food in fat. This takes several forms, from deep-frying, where the food is completely immersed in hot oil, to sautéing where food is cooked in a frying pan where there is only a thin coating of oil.