It's that time a year when winter storms begin causing havoc across the United States, and when "rotating outages" are common to help sustain the electrical grid during intense cold periods. That means pretty much anybody with snow and ice in their backyard can succumb to power outages. And no electricity means no electric heat.
Tents are a practical and easy shelter to use on any camping trip. Learn how to set up a tent in this free camping video series from an Eagle Scout.
This recipe is for a shrimp cocktail like none other you have ever tasted! Ingredients you will need for the Court Bouillon:
tastyfoodtv teaches the viewers how to make Italian chocolate cake in this video. First gather all the ingredients necessary. You'll need 200 grams of almonds, 100 grams of nuts, 6 eggs, 200 grams of butter, 200 grams of dark chocolate, 200 grams of sugar, and yeast for cakes. Break the chocolate into small pieces in a medium-sized bowl. Put the bowl on top of a pot filled with water and put it on the stove. This method will allow the boiling water beneath to melt the chocolate. Next put piec...
Chef Jui Chin demonstrates how to make Lo Mein. First, he starts with cut up meat and vegetables: green onions, white onions, shrimp, bean sprouts, julienne cabbage, julienne carrots, and separately he has some julienne sliced pork. You want precooked lo mein noodles or you can substitute with linguini or spaghetti. After preparing your meat and vegetables heat up the wok (you may want a bigger wok to avoid spilling) on the stove. Add a couple of tablespoons of oil and rotate the pan around t...
If you're like most busy workers, your day doesn't get started until you have your first jolt of fresh coffee. When you are feeling extra sluggish and need a boost, try a strong Cuban coffee that is sure to start your engine.
Sfehmi teaches you how to make Chicken biryani, a Indian dish. You take a bowl full of rice, you wash it and soak it for about a hour. Wash and drain a few piece of cut up chicken. You will need two cups of yogurt, one thinly sliced onion. Then you also need ginger, garlic, mint and guru masala. Use a pressure cooker for the meat. You put eight tablespoons of olive oil and add the onions until they are golden-brown. Add the chicken and the rest of the spices. You will notice the meat will als...
Learn how to make an egg omelette following a few simple steps. The ingredients you will need is two eggs, salt, black pepper, cheese, oil, and slices of tomatoes and olives to use as a garnish. -Break the eggs into a bowl. -Beat the eggs really well. -Add one tbsp of water. Beat. -Add 1/2 tsp of salt. -A couple grinds of black pepper. -Use any kind of cheese you would like, grate. -Turn the stove on high heat and place pan over it, coat it with olive oil. -Once pan is ready, turn heat down t...
Watching this video will show you how to prepare a quick and delicious Thai basil chicken. It takes only 15 minutes to prepare this dish. Ingredients you will need are:
Ms. Joni Marie Newman from Just the Food teaches us to make Bakin Bits without hydrogenated fats. She tells us that it's cheap, it's easy, and it only takes 10 minutes to make Bakin Bits. She starts by taking granules in a bowl. In another bowl, she takes liquid smoke and adds water and salt. Then, she takes the liquid smoke bowl and pours it over the granules. Then she mixes it all together with her fingers. At that point, she tightly covers the bowl with a plastic wrapper and keeps it in th...
There’s nothing like a glass of ice cold lemonade on a hot day. You Will Need
So you love to grill food but it's the middle of winter and too cold to grill outside, what are you going to do? The answer lies in this video series on stove top grilling. Let our expert show you how you can grill all your favorite food on a stove top grill pan without any of the hassle of outdoor grills.
Often, despite your favorite makeup mecca's rows and rows of endless colors, applicators, and brands, it's hard to find the perfect shade of lipstick—especially one at the price you want. Rather than resorting to what's available in stores, turn to your stovetop and a box of crayons.
If you’re camping outdoors, you’ll probably need to know how to make a campfire at some point. Fire is an important tool to have for cooking food and purifying water, for warmth and light, and for protection from wild animals at night. In this video series, learn the proper way to make a safe, long-burning campfire. Our expert, Brian Rajchel, will show you how to choose the right area in your campsite for the fire, how to build a fire pit, how to start a fire without matches, and how to prope...
Simply Made demonstrates how to make a toffee crunch crepe cake. First, assemble the ingredients for the crepes including 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1/4 of a cup of granulated sugar, 1/4 of a teaspoon of salt, one can of evaporated milk, 1/2 cup of water, four eggs, 1/4 cup of melted vegetable shortening, and two teaspoons of vanilla extract. Add the ingredients to a blender and mix for ten seconds. Pour the mixture into a container, cover it, and let it rest for 30 minutes. Set the stove to medium...
How to make deviled eggs while avoiding common mistakes
Purify water 3 different waysThere are three water purification methods demonstrated: Chlor floc tablets, 2% tincture of iodine and a MSR hand filter.Gather water into your plastic bottle. Add one chlor floc tablet to one liter of water. Close the top and shake the bottle for one minute. Wait seven to ten minutes. The floculation agent in the tablet takes the dirt out of the water so that it can be separated. Strain the water using a bandana over the cup to trap all loose sediment. The water ...
This a video which explains who to make treacle flapjack. To make the flapjacks requires 250g of unsalted butter, 250g of light soft brown sugar, 1 pinch of salt 175g black treacle and 500g of porridge oats. She first puts butter into a saucepan, roughly chopped, then adding the sugar and pinch of salt. She uses a scale to measure the 175 grams of treacle syrup. She then heats the mixture on a stove, waiting for the butter to melt. Once the butter is melted, the mixture is poured into the oat...
Into a medium sauce pan you will add six tablespoons of all purpose flour. While whisking your flour slowly add in two cups of milk. Whisk slowly so you don't get any lumps in the flour. Place your sauce pan on the stove with medium to low high. Whisk throughout the entire heating process or you could burn the milk on the bottom of the pan. It will then form into a thick paste which you will transfer to a bowl and let it cool slightly. With your mixer and mixing bowl add two cups of butter th...
If you have had other versions of Pakistani style roast beef or you would like to try a different way to prepare a piece of meet this video will walk you through how to prepare beef in a Pakistani style.
This is a video that demonstrates how to make a homemade birthday cake. He uses a springform pan and brushes the entire inside with butter and dusts it with flour. He mixes flour and corn flour and puts them through a sieve. Using a mixer, he mixes eggs and then adds sugar, whisking it for about two minutes until it's light and airy. He adds flour and uses his bare hand to fold the flour into the batter. He pours the batter into the cake pan and puts it into the oven, along with another pan o...
Here is a super fast Indian recipe for aloo matar (potatoes with green peas), you can make this recipe using pre-made masala. Let your imagination run wild, substitute any vegetable and create yet another delicious variation. Watch this how-to video and learn how to make Indian aloo matar, potatoes and peas.
The family will love this pasta recipe. Easy to prepare. Ingredients you will need:
In this tutorial, we learn how to use Ramen noodles to make a gourmet salad. You will need: chicken breasts, bacon, dried beef, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, and sour cream. First, preheat your oven to 350. After this, grab your chicken breasts and wrap a piece of bacon around each piece of chicken. When finished, mix up the soups and sour cream and then pour it over the top of the chicken in a casserole dish. Place this in the oven and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Now, coo...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make dumpling soup. First, add in your soup bones to a large pot, then add in ginger, green onion, shitake mushrooms, 1 tbsp onion powder, soy sauce, salt, and 1 gallon of water. Let this come to a boil on the stove for 5-7 minutes. After this, skim the fat from the top of the soup and then let simmer with a cover for 1 hour. While this is cooking, take 1 lb of ground beer and pour over 1 tbsp oyster sauce, sesame oil, black pepper, soy sauce, and bok choy. U...
In order to prepare Caciotta Fritter Pastries, you will need the following ingredients: aged caciotta, 3 eggs, 2 T Parmesan Reggiana, salt, course ground pepper, flour, butter, water, baking soda, and olive oil.
Greasy bacon is so delicious, but when it's too delicious it can be soggy, a heart attack just waiting to happy, or merely not as good as a less greasy, more crispy taste. But what if you don't have an oven or stove? How do you make crispy bacon without the mess? The microwave. Yes, believe it or not. Make crispy bacon in your microwave in just a few minutes without the greasy mess.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make dill pickles out of cucumbers with James. First, take your cucumbers and wash and scrub them. Cut them in the dill pickle shape and cut the ends off. Next, put 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup canning salt into a sauce pan over the stove. Turn on the heat and add in 1 qt of white vinegar and 1 qt of water. Bring the mixture to a simmer for 15 minutes and heat up your jars to 180 degrees. Now you will take one of your hot jars and put pickles into the jar, leavi...
In this video Miss Betty Rocker shows you how to make ricotta cheese at home. You will need cheesecloth, ¬O gallon of 2% milk, 2 ¬O cups of buttermilk, and a pinch of sea salt. Start by getting a colander, preferable a metal one, and a large enough container for it to fit in. Cut and unfold several sheets of cheesecloth to drape over the colander. Pour the 2 ¬O cups of buttermilk and ¬O gallon of 2% milk into a large pot on the stove. Heat the mixture on medium high to bring it to a boil. You...
Scott teach us how to cook chicken pot pie with biscuits topping. First, place a large sized saucepan on the stove, then add 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter. After the butter is melted add a medium red onion, 3 large stalks of celery and 2 large carrots, all chopped in quarter-inch dice. Meanwhile, you need to prepare 3 cups of shredded chicken. Add a half of a cup of flour into the pot and sautv© until tender for about 10-15 minutes. It's important to move the flour around to get the raw fl...
In order to prepare Gypsy A-1 Barbecue Ribs, you will need the following: ribs, tri-tip, black pepper, seasoned salt, cayenne pepper, onion powder, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, brown sugar, honey, vinegar, molasses, ketchup, mustard, and garlic powder.
This video shows us how to make distilled water for your carnivorous plants, such as a Venus Fly Trap.
In this video, Kevin and Annmarie Gianni show us how to make almond yogurt. The raw almonds need to be blanched first to remove any bacteria. This is done by pouring boiling water over them for a few seconds. To make the almond milk, put the almonds into the blender and add water, using three parts water to one part almonds. Add a little honey or any sweetener that you like. Blend it and then filter it through a nut milk bag. The mixture needs to be lukewarm so heat it a little on the stove i...
Dede shows viewers how to cook lamb shops Mediterranean style. First, get all your ingredients together: a couple of cuts of lamb chops, lemon, fresh rosemary, and chopped garlic. For the lamb chops, ask your butcher to cut it about a half inch thick. The thickness will help keep the meat moist when baking. Use fresh rosemary since dried rosemary can be tough. Gather about three tablespoons worth, and rough chop the rosemary. Sprinkle the rosemary onto the chops. Preheat the oven to 350 degre...
A Cookin' Chef shows viewers how to Marinate a chicken breast. First, you will need about 4 chicken breasts. You should sprinkle these with lemon pepper, grained garlic. Make sure you do both sides of the chicken. Now, put the chicken in a zip-lock bag together. Use 1/2 cup of soy sauce, 1/2 Italian dressing and 1/2 pineapple juice cups and pour this mix into the zip-lock bag. Put this in the fridge for one hour to 24 hours. Now, you put your marinated chicken on the grill at medium high heat...
Victory Chinese Cell of Tulsa learned how to make this Thai Curry Chicken in their Homemade Chinese Cooking Class. Start by cutting one green bell pepper into pieces around one square inch in size. Fish sauce, seasoning sauce, white sugar, and salt are also needed, in addition to fresh raw chicken. Preheat a large, deep sauce pan on the stove top with a vegetable oil coating. Then make sure the coconut milk and panang curry paste are open. Add about half the can of curry paste to the oil in t...
First of all you need to have a French press which you can carry it wherever you are traveling. You only need to arrange for hot water for making the coffee through it. Now you have to go to your coffee shop and order them to grind coffee to French press blend for you. One tablespoon is enough for six ounces. But if you want more stronger then you need to put in three tablespoon of coffee in the French water. In the mean time you have to boil the water on the stove. When the water is boiled t...
This video instructs you how to make Bake Pork Chops with Vegetables in order to get protein and nutrients. Set the stove to 350 degrees to preheat. Set up a glass baking dish with tin foil lining it. Preheating ensures your food will cook evenly! The veggies will vary, but we'll use one medium onion, a red pepper, and whole white mushrooms. First peel and chop your onion, next the red pepper and then the white mushrooms (slowly if you need to!). Remember to remove the core of the pepper! Pla...
This is a video demonstrating how to make Thai Iced tea. The presenter explains that Thai tea mix can be bought at a local Asian market. She explains that it costs about 5 dollars. She says that one package can last a long time. Sugar and boiling water, ice and half and half is also necessary. A large pot is then filled with water and boiled. The tea leaves are then placed in the boiling water and are then mixed with a large spoon. The heat is on high and the tea is allowed to boil for 15 min...
This video demonstrates how to make Game Day onion rings. For this first you need to take a Spanish onion and cut it into slices so that you can easily take out rings. Then take some flour and add corn meal into it. Then add salt, Kosher salt, cayenne powder and pepper. Mix them together and keep aside. In a dish take some butter milk and season it with salt and pepper. If you wish you can add some Tabasco or hot sauce into it. Take an onion ring and dip it in the flour mixture and shed out t...
