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Tomato Preparation | Tomato Cooking | Tips | Tomato Garnish Tomatoes In the plant family, the tomato is classified as a fruit (berry), but when eaten it resembles a vegetable.

Cutting Watermelon | Removing Watermelon Seeds | Tips Watermelon A popular fruit that grows on ground vines in a number of different shapes and sizes, all round and fairly large.

Ingredient Tips | Preparation TipsCooking & Baking Tips | Miscellaneous Tips There are an endless number of kitchen tips available for you to try. Shown below are some popular tips that will help you in your everyday use of some common baking and cooking ingredients.

Garnish your salads or main entrée with a carrot curl. Before slicing, use a vegetable peeler to cut a strip of the peeled carrot. The carrot strip must be rolled and secured with a toothpick.

Pork Tenderloin The tenderloin is the leanest and most tender cut of pork. It is located along the bottom of the loin, starting in the center cut and running back through the sirloin end.

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Strawberries are an easy garnish for summer desserts. With a paring knife, slice strawberry from a point slightly below the top stem to the bottom. Continue making thin slits from one end of the strawberry to the other.

Cucumbers balls are a great garnish for salads or desserts. Begin by slicing the cucumber in half. The seeds should remain in the cucumber for sufficient flesh. With a melon baller, make balls with the flesh of the cucumber.

Pounding | Commercial Powders | Marinating | Rubs | Barding   Tenderizing makes it possible to purchase less costly beef cuts and still enjoy the tenderness that is usually found only in the more expensive cuts.

Sautéing is a cooking process using high heat that quickly browns and sears food in a small quantity of oil in a skillet. It is actually the same process as searing except that sautéing completely cooks the meat and searing is simply a means to brown the meat so that the cooking process can be completed with another method.

Pork Chops Chops are smaller cuts from the loin primal cut. They are individual serving cuts that are sliced to various thicknesses. Depending in the size of the chop, 1 or 2 chops may be served as a single serving.

The required cooking temperature and the method for grilling turkey depend on the thickness of the turkey meat and whether or not the skin is removed. Grilling turkey parts or slices would be done using direct heat. Grilling a whole turkey would be done using indirect heat.

Potato Preparation | Grilling Potatoes | Grilling Tips Preparing Potatoes for Grilling Skins On | Skins Off The skin of a potato is edible, so the potato can be prepared with the skins on or with the skins off.

Use this ingredient equivalent chart to find out how much of an ingredient you need when your recipe suggests an unfamiliar quantity. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - PQ - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z  S - Ingredients Ingredient Amount Equivalents Saffron, threads 4 to 6 1/4 tsp.

Pineapple is a versatile tropical fruit that is used in many types of recipes. It is often used as an ingredient in fruit salads, pies, cakes, and ice cream recipes; it goes very well with ham, pork, chicken, and seafood; it's an excellent fruit for grilling; and it's one of the most delicious fruits eaten as is--no additional ingredients required to enhance the unique flavor.

Leg of Lamb | Rack of Lamb | Rolled Shoulder | Saddle of Lamb Carving a Leg of Lamb A leg of lamb is one of simplest roasts to carve. There are no complicated techniques involved and all that is required is a sharp knife and a means to steady the roast as it is being carved.

Cooking | Peeling | Serving Using the term boiled when referring to eggs cooked in the shell can be misleading, because eggs known as "hard-boiled" should never be cooked at a full boil for the duration of the cooking time.

This type of ham can be a butt or shank portion or it could be a whole or half leg that has the hip, thigh and/or shank bone remaining as part of the ham.

Carrot Preparation | Carrot Cooking | Tips Carrots A plant of the parsley family with feathery green leaves and an orange root that can be eaten raw or cooked.

Grilling is a dry heat cooking method that quickly cooks the surface and then slowly moves to the middle. When grilling ham properly, the meat will have a crisp flavorful outside coating with a moist center.