Cooking with Fruits & Vegetables

Harvest the seeds from your jack-o'-lantern or pie pumpkin to make a tasty, toasted pumpkin seed snack.

Learn an easy way to remove peels from tomatoes. Dip the tomato into boiling water for 15 seconds.

Fresh tomatoes are delicious raw, cooked in a garlicky sauce, or pan-fried. Here's how to prepare tomatoes.

After avocados are ripe, pit and slice them to place in salads or to make guacamole.

When picking fruits, look for plumpness, tenderness, and bright color.

Zest is appropriately named, as it adds flavor and life to all sorts of recipes.

Nutrition-packed and inexpensive sweet potatoes cook easily in a pot of boiling water. Once cooked, the possibilities for using them ar...

Pick up a bunch of asparagus from the farmer's market or grocery store, and use this cooking guide to roast, steam, simmer, grill, or m...

This nutritious vegetable is delicious when prepared properly. Follow these simple steps, and you're bound to make a broccoli lover out...

Stir together a quick, sweet-and-tangy pickling mixture to flavor sliced radishes. These rosy-hue refrigerator pickles make a refreshin...

Add delightful crunch to your favorite salads and side dishes with fresh cucumber.

Acorn squash, spaghetti squash, and butternut squash are just a sampling of varieties of winter squash. Learn how to prepare squash in ...

Sweetly mild summer squash is a nutritious and tasty addition to many dishes. Learn how to cook it in just a few easy steps.

Vitamin-rich spinach is great raw in salads. It's also delicious steamed or drenched in cream. Here's how to prepare spinach in a varie...

With an appealing crunch and a mix of sweet and tangy flavors, sweet peppers (or bell peppers) give any dish a colorful pop.

When cooked, fresh carrots lend a sweet, slightly tangy flavor to dishes. They're also delicious raw. Here's how to prepare fresh carro...

Good enough to eat straight from the garden, fresh green beans are wonderfully versatile.

You can use roasted sweet peppers in a variety of ways -- follow these easy roasting directions.

How to peel, chop, slice, and dice onions. Choose the right knife when cutting an onion.

Pineapples must be cleaned and sliced properly before they can be served or used in other recipes. When using fresh pineapple, make sur...

You don't need a knife to cut this delicate vegetable.

Knowing how to cook starts with knowing how to chop.

Use this technique to protect your fingers when you cut fresh corn off the cob.

Slice perfect vegetable strips.

We've made it quick and easy.

Shredding can be done in many ways. Here are some useful tips.