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Turn your basic slow cooker into a programmable unit by purchasing a programmable timer module. This module plugs into an electrical outlet and then the slow cooker is plugged into the module.

1. A basic Asian cooking method that generally uses a wok for the cooking, but also can be prepared in a frying pan.

One of the basic white sauces of French origin, which is prepared from a white stock, such as chicken or seafood stock, and a roux.

A thickening agent made from fat mixed with flour that is cooked together to be used to stiffen the texture of sauces, gravies, and soups.

A creamy Italian rice dish made with starchy, short-grained Italian rice varieties. A basic recipe for risotto includes onions that are lightly sautéed in butter into which rice is added and cooked briefly.

A cut of pork that is taken from the meat on the middle part of the shank bone extending to the hip bone on the hind leg of the hog.

A blend of strongly flavored spices popular in Eastern Indian cooking that are ground into a finely powdered substance.

A basic French white sauce made by adding hot milk to a white roux (heated butter mixed with flour)....

Oils for cooking are used to fry and sauté foods, for making salad dressings, and for use in baking....

A canned ham consists of pieces of ham that have been brine cured, pressed or molded, vacuum-sealed in a can, and then fully cooked.

A meat product generally consisting of pork, but also made of beef, veal, lamb, poultry, or a combination of several of these meats.

The grain that is produced from grassy plants, which is processed into an edible or ready-to-eat breakfast food.

An old-fashioned tan-colored confection made with brown sugar, milk, butter, and vanilla. The ingredients are cooked in a saucepan and are stirred constantly until heated to the soft ball stage.

A heat monitor and gauge used to measure temperatures of 100°F to 400°F or higher in hot substances and liquids, when heating sugar for making candy, jam, syrup, and grease for deep frying.

A sweet mixture often used as a dessert that is prepared with eggs, sugar, and milk or cream. It is creamy like a pudding, but it is even thicker.

This kitchen appliance or piece of kitchenware may be any utensil that is used to pop kernels of corn on a stovetop, in a microwave or over an open fire.

An orange colored autumn fruit with a smooth skin and a reddish orange jelly-like flesh, which has a very tart flavor prior to ripening and a delicately sweet flavor, somewhat like a sweet plum when ripe.

A type of sweet treat, or sweetmeat (a small piece of something sweet), popular among the Jewish populations of Middle Eastern and Balkan countries.

A large, bulb-shaped, white, yellow or red colored dry onion that has a sweet, mild flavor. The name Bermuda onion originates from when the onions were first grown in the Bermuda Islands.

The oil produced from manual or machine pressing of the fruit (olives) from the olive tree. The flavor and color of the olive oil produced from the same variety of olive may vary significantly from one region to the next as well as from grower to grower, since soils and environment will have an effect on creating different flavors within olives grown in the same area.