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Often used by those who make their own meat ingredients for sausages or meat dishes, Meat Grinders are a common utensil for grinding a variety of ingredients that may include seasonings desired for personal tastes in the foods being prepared.

Flat, disk shaped dried beans, high in protein, that have a rich, somewhat sweet and peppery flavor when cooked.

A meat product that has received injections of solutions such as water, salt and sodium phosphate to season the meat and to keep it from drying out.

The outer pod or shell covering a seed or fruit. A husk is also called a hull. Some husks, such as those from corn, are used in the preparation of foods for cooking.

A type of hot sandwich consisting of thin slices of tender roast beef layered on a French baguette and served with the flavorful beef sauce known as au jus (pronounced oh zhoo'), which is French for “with juice” (au jus typically accompanies prime rib).

The outer covering on an ear of corn, which can be dried, cleaned and used as a wrap for steaming food.

A type of versatile flat bread that is soft and slightly chewy and often features a pocket inside, which is a result of baking the bread in a hot oven.

A soft, sweet, thin-fleshed food item with many small, edible seeds. Although the Fig is most often considered to be a fruit, it is actually a flower that is picked for eating.

A method involving the soaking of food in a liquid solution consisting of water, salt, sugar, and possibly herbs and spices in order to preserve, tenderize or flavor various food and cuts of foods.

A food product produced from poultry that is used as both an ingredient and a main dish for baked foods.

(Scientific Name: Laetiporus sulphureus) Not to be confused with Hen of the Woods, this mushroom variety also is leafy in shape like the Hen of the Woods, both of which grow in a semi-circular form around tree trunks or stumps.

The green leaf that grows on a banana tree, which can be dried, cleaned, cut to size, and then used as a wrap for steaming or heating food.

A highly prized and rare mushroom (fungus), that grows underground near the roots of trees. Most varieties of truffles that are considered edible are found 2 to 3 inches below the surface of the ground, but can be found as deep as 10 to 15 inches down.

A soft to semi-soft food product which is actually soybean curd and commonly referred to as bean curd.

A thin, boneless cut of meat which is very tender and generally considered to be small in size. Cutlets typically refer to cuts of meat from poultry, lamb, veal, or pork, however, the term may also refer to a thin and flat crouquette consisting of chopped meat or fish and formed into the shape of a cutlet.