In this Food video tutorial you will learn how to make parippu (dal / lentils) curry. This video is from Sri Lanka Cooking. Chop half an onion and four garlic cloves. You will also need cinnamon, salt, chilly powder, curry leaves, dried chilly, a cup of coconut milk and 2-3 tablespoons cooking oil. Take half a cup of washed lentils, put in half of the chopped onion and garlic, add cinnamon, salt, chilly powder, half a cup of water and put to boil. Once it boils, add in coconut milk. Now the c...
USA Fire and Rescue Favorite Recipes demonstrates how to make peach cobbler. First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then, add 3/4 of a cup of sugar, 1 cup of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, a pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of melted butter and 1/2 of a cup of milk to a mixing bowl. Mix the ingredients together until it is well combined. Coat an 8 inch by 8 inch baking dish with butter and pour the mixture into the dish. Pour two small cans of drained peaches over the mix. Pour half of a c...
To make this recipe you will need leftover bread, milk (evaporated is best, but regular will do), sugar, baking powder and egg. In a bowl, mix together the eggs and the milk. Add sugar, and mix again. Add baking powder, mix again. Now you will put in the bread and mash it all in. Then bake for 25 min or steam in your steamer. It is done when fork poked into center of pudding comes out clean. You can add an optional topping when it is finished cooking. In this video, the person spreads some me...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to prune a tree yourself. You start by using the four D's. The four d's include removing things that are dead, damaged, deformed, and dysfunctional. If the branch is brown and crispy, you can remove it. Remove any stubs as this will affect the tree over time. Get close to the branch collar when cutting. Do not cut it near the base if the branch is bigger than an inch in diameter, as this may damage the tree. Do this instead by cutting an under cut and ...
Rosie has a tasty recipe that she's willing to share with us all. She is going to be giving us her very own southern fried chicken recipe straight from her kitchen. Lady Rosie first starts off with two beaten eggs mixed in to a bowl with seasoning of her choice. Then, she combines dry ingredients such as flour, paprika, black pepper, a pinch of seasoning salt, and garlic powder. After everything is set, Rosie dunks the washed chicken pieces in to the egg mixture and then rolls them in to the ...
Graham Potter shows how to stylize cork bark oak. The main way to stylize is to avoid the carving of the bark, but to carving the branches. Its recommended to start carving when the branches are young. First you will start removing all the branches you have no use for (e.g.. shortening branches to about 4 to 5 leaves). Graham says while trimming the branches, do not worry about the immediate image of the branches, but of the image of what it will look like in the future when it fully grows. G...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to draw Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. First, start off with the basic outline of the body. Use simple shapes for this. Next, fill in the eyes, hair, nose, mustache, ears, and mouth of the figure. From there, you can move on to the details of the clothing such as the collar and cuffs of the sweater. Finish with the shoes and the fingers on the hand. The basic outline is finished. Now, go in and erase the simple shapes from the drawing and fill in more...
This video demonstrates how to make Kettle Corn. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: oil, popcorn, salt, and sugar. To make this you will need a stirring utensil and a kettle, because a kettle is able to hold more heat and transfer more heat to the popcorn. You should use twice as much popcorn as sugar in the recipe: a 2 to 1 ratio of popcorn to sugar. Pour popcorn into the kettle. Add oil. You will need to wear protective gear, when you cook it. Stir it frequently. The ...
This video shows you how to prepare Ranch Pork Pot Roast & Potato. This is a Crock Pot recipe. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: cream of chicken soup, a packet of ranch dressing, 8 oz. cream cheese (softened), 2 lbs. pork roast, and 5 red skinned potatoes.
This video demonstrates how to prepare pigs in a blanket. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: crescent roll dough, hot dogs, and butter/margarine.
This video is about how to cook Thai shrimp cake. The first step that you will have to do is to peel the shells of the shrimps off. After peeling the shells, the next step is to blend the shrimps. Then the next step is to stop the blender once the shrimps have become smooth enough. And just simply put the salt, sugar, and pepper. Then blend the shrimps again. After blending, place the blended shrimps in the freezer for fifteen minutes. After 15 minutes, prepare the frying pan. Before dipping ...
There's nothing greater than being in the outdoors and away from all the hustle and bustle of the city. Of course that doesn't mean you should be without basic necesseities. In this two part tutorial find out how to make a sitting stool used for camping. Enjoy!
Sonya McDaniel of the Food Corner presents this healthy and delicious recipe for sausage stuffed acorn squash.
This video showing you how to sear scallops is done very well and easy to follow. Pat the scallops dry to help them brown using medium to high heat. Add a little oil to the pan to coat. Salt your scallops and them place in hot pan one at a time, being careful of the spatters from the hot oil. When you can see a crust then flip over. Slightly undercook the scallops, carryover cooking will complete the cooking. Cooking too long will result in chewy scallops.
In this Food video tutorial you will learn how to make an easy & quick shrimp scampi. Boil noodles. Take two tablespoons of butter and put on a pan add two tablespoons olive oil, three teaspoons minced garlic and chopped onions and stir till they are light brown. Now add in the shrimps, add two more tablespoons of butter. Once the shrimps turn light pink, remove from the pan and put in a bowl. To the pan add a few squirts of lemon juice and half a cup of white wine and stir for a while till t...
Add shimmer and color to your wood furniture with a Deep Red Mahogany Finish. Watch as The Wood Whisper's Marc Spagnuolo shows you how to apply this look to anything wood in your home. First Marc tells you about narrowing down whether or not you have to mask the wood or enhance the wood. After you figure that out you must choose how to color your wood. There are stains, oils, dyes and more! Marc chooses both a Merlot General Finishes Water Based Dye and Brown Mahogany General Finishes Gel Sta...
This video shows how to toast pumpkin seeds whose flavor is greatly enhanced by the toasting process. They are also very nutritious and add texture to meals. You don't need any oil as pumpkins have their own oil. You will need a hot skillet and a cup full of pumpkins which will pop as they heat. Once they are toasted brown they can be put in a container with tamari soy sauce. This is a film clip from the narrator's own kitchen and you can see how they could be used on salads, stews, pasta dis...
The commentator tells viewers they will learn how to make smoke from their fingertips. First you must tear the strip off of a matchbox. Then place the strip in an ashtray, facing upside down. Light the strip on fire and let it burn for a little while. Push the burned strip to one side of the ashtray and there will be a brown-yellow residue left in the bottom of the ashtray. Wipe the residue off with one of your fingers and then proceed to rub your fingers together. Smoke will then come from y...
In this tutorial, Yanik Chauvin teaches us how to create an old-style looking photo starting from a grayish, underexposed one, using the software "Lightroom". He starts by creating a virtual copy of it, and then he adds a Camera Calibration preset named Camera Landscape and increases the exposure. After that, he crops the image removing the blank parts of the photo, and adjusts Contrast, Blacks and Clarity to strength the image borders.
Garden of Imagination demonstrates how to make miniature polymer clay pot pies. Find miniature bottle caps in the scrap booking section of the craft store. You can use a regular sized bottle cap to make a big pie. Roll a piece of ecru clay into a ball and mold it into the bottle cap. Round the top to give it a pot pie shape. Use a small blade to create seared lines into the pie top. Brush mustard yellow pastel to tint the top of the pie. Brush a brown pastel accent on the top of the pie. Bake...
Detailed video on how to make Chicken Adobo. All ingredients are included, with helpful tips on where to find them. Well presented video that walks you step by step thru the process. All cooking times and when to add what ingredients are clearly posted. Many person comments from the chef on his technique. The chicken is Marinated overnight, then boiled for 15 minutes, then taken out. At that point the garlic is strained from the sauce and placed back in the frying pan with oil and sautéed unt...
Doc Willoughby, Executive Editor of Gourmet Magazine, demonstrates how to make oven-fried panko chicken.
This video shows how to make a tiny sunflower from polymer clay. Start with some yellow clay and roll it out using a pasta machine using the number 1 setting on the pasta machine. Wilton cake decorating supplies makes a flower shaped cutter that is designed to cut pieces of fondant, but works well for polymer clay. Make some of the flower shapes and even out the cut edges. You can texturize the flower petals so they are not left completely smooth. Add a piece of brown clay to the middle of th...
Tammy Cornan, the iPhone chef, teaches us how to make beer batter onion rings. She shows us every step of the process from all of the ingredients needed to how long you should fry your onion rings in order to give them that golden brown tasty flavor. The video demonstration contains information that you just can't get in a recipe book. For example, the iPhone chef tells us which beer is the best choice for flavor, how long to leave your batter in the refrigerator in order to get a smooth crea...
The first step in making burritos for a dollhouse is to take some off white clay and roll it as thin as you can get it. After that, take a small circle using a small circular cutter of some sort. Next, make the "beans" with translucent liquid sculpting clay and some red clay by mixing the two ingredients together. Take a toothpick and apply this mixture in a line down the center. Now take one side of the circle and fold in just past the bean mixture. Now fold the side flaps over and roll the ...
Garden of Imagination presents a video that teaches how to create a miniature pretzel for a dollhouse. First, she rolls polymer clay into a tiny snake-like roll. Then, she wraps the clay to form a pretzel shape. After she gets the shape she wants, she cuts the clay to make it even. Next, she retrieves chalk. She breaks up a little to dust the pretzel. She uses a dark yellow and brown to achieve a baked look. Then, she adds sea salt from her kitchen. Last, she instructs to bake the pretzel in ...
In this instructional video we can easily learn how to apply a mysterious bird lady makeup look for Halloween.
This video from The 10-Minute Cook demonstrates how to make healthy fried rice with ginger and spring onions. Start with cooked brown rice, 500g of minced turkey, 6 spring onions, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 inches of ginger, a handful of peas and any other vegetables you like. Finely chop the spring onions, garlic and ginger. Use about a tablespoon of sesame oil and heat up a wok. Add the garlic and ginger and cook that. Then add the turkey and cook it for 5-8 minutes until it's white and cooked t...
Baker Michael Anderson shows how to make three different festive cupcake decorations. Learn to adorn your cupcakes with either a reindeer, poinsettia, or holiday wreath made of frosting. The reindeer is made using brown, white, and black frosting, complete with a pair or pretzel antlers. For the poinsettia, red frosting is used for the petals, with yellow stamens and contrasting green for the leaves. The wreath uses heaps of green frosting with colorful sprinkles and a pretty red frosting bow...
DrawingNow teaches you how to draw a mountain scene. You start with simple triangles on top of each other, which will serve as the sketch for the mountains. Use horizontal squiggly lines, which will act like a sketch for trees and water. You can color the sky blue to get that out of your way. Color each mountain a different shade of brown and make regions of white on the tops, to simulate snow. Then you have to color in the water and the mountains that are reflected in it. Next, draw grass ne...
In this video, Betty shows you how to make southern oven-fried chicken breast. She starts out with two pounds of chicken by cutting each breast in half and removing any excess fat. Next, she sprinkles meat tenderizer on each breast and dredges it in flour. After coating each chicken breast in flour, it is lightly fried in a frying pan on the stove and sprinkled with some black pepper. When the chicken breasts turned golden brown, the pan should be removed from the stove and placed into a pre-...
Do you want to achieve a nice, clean look? Flawless skin is the first step in achieve just that. This video will show you exactly how to achieve that flawless look you've always wanted.
Betty's Kitchen offers recipe for Cheese and Onion Stuffed Hamburgers
To make easy minced meat pies you will need 425 grams of ready rub pastry sheet, a little bit of cinnamon and sugar, one beaten egg, half a jar of minced meat, some chopped walnuts and some icing sugar. Sprinkle your work station with icing sugar and roll out your pastry sheet. Spoon out some minced meat on top of the pastry and add walnuts. Roll up each side of the pastry so it meats in the middle. Slice horizontally into the size you want. Brush with your beaten egg and sprinkle with cinnam...
This video describes how to cut potatoes in a variety of ways for cooking. Cutting potatoes can be tricky because the regular shape of a potato causes them to roll. To avoid this problem, just cut a sliver off the side of the potato to flatten the bottom. Then proceed to cut the potato in the way that you originally planned to. The video then goes on to explain how to make perfect French fries by cutting the potato a certain way. To do so, start by cutting off the side of the potato to give y...
Amelia Ceja prepares delicious filet mignon with roasted potatoes. She starts by placing the sliced potatoes on a baking sheet. Then she adds some garlic cloves and sprinkles with olive oil, then some fresh cracked pepper, cayenne pepper, kosher salt and fresh rosemary and thyme. This goes into the oven to roast for about 40 minutes.
In a mixing bowl put 1 cup of pancake mix, 3/4 cup of milk, 1 egg, and 2 teaspoons of oil. Use a wooden spoon to mix the ingredients together in the bowl. Then use a whisk to mix the ingredients some more. Next heat a sauce pan with some oil on the stove. If you have a vent over your stove it would probably be good to turn that vent on. Take the Oreos and dip them in the mixture bowl. Flip them over several times to make sure they are coated. Then put them in the pan of oil and begin frying t...
In this video from Betty kitchen we learn how to prepare deep fried French fries. In a deep fryer there is hot peanut oil. She has 2 Russet potatoes cut as thick fries in a bowl. She washed and cleaned the potatoes before placing in the oil. Ease the potatoes into the oil with a spoon. This is not a recipe for someone that is inexperienced with deep frying because the oil is so hot. When they are golden brown remove from oil and place on a tray with paper towel to drain on. She seasons with s...
To make roasted acorn squash first, cut the top and bottom off the squash. Then you will have to cut the squash into two pieces scooping out the seeds with a spoon. Next you want to cut each half so you would now have four pieces. If You want to give it a salty sweet flavor. So then you'll put salt and pepper on each piece seasoning it well. Then you'll chop up rosemary making sure that the rosemary isn't too small so it won't stick to your teeth. You then sprinkle the rosemary on each piece....
Goldiestarling teaches you how to apply a snowflake fairy makeup look. You first need to draw the snowflakes on some card stock and then cut them out. Apply those to the face using eyelash adhesive. Use a moisturizer and then a blue powder using a short haired brush. Apply a frosty white metallic color around the eyelids. Also add a darker blue around the snowflake edges. You can also add small rhinestones and glitter to the snowflakes. Use a light brown lipstick for the lips and blend it wit...
