How To: Use and store basil leaves for cooking
Basil is full of nutrition and flavor. It can be a powerful part of a healthy diet. Basil is full of flavor and reduces the need for salt.
Basil is full of nutrition and flavor. It can be a powerful part of a healthy diet. Basil is full of flavor and reduces the need for salt.
Watch this how to video and see how The Canadian Living Test Kitchen makes a flawless fruit crisp dessert. Baking this almond and cherry crisp dessert is very easy. All you need is sweet cheeries, apples, sugar, flour, lemon juice, sliced almonds, lemon zest, brown sugar, and melted butter. Serve the almond and cherry crisp with your favorite ice cream.
This tutorial video will teach you how to make kimchi. For this Korean recipe, you will need cabbage, Korean radishes, salt, sugar, ginger, garlic, sweet rice flour, fish sauce, hot pepper powder, oysters, green onions, onions, and possibly rubber gloves.
Learn to make fresh peanut brittle with Professional Chef Cat Cora. You'll need sugar, water, Caro syrup, a thermometer, butter, baking soda and of course, peanuts. Watch this video candy-making tutorial and learn how to make sweet delicious peanut brittle.
This how-to video shows you how to cook sweet paneer burfi. This Indian dessert can be served with tea, coffee or any meal.
This tutorial arts and crafts video will teach you how to make really sweet bows from wrapping paper for Birthdays, Christmas or any occasion you can think of. This method also gives you a great way to have your bows coordinate with your wrapping paper, too!
Try this facial recipe made with fresh fruit and put your best face forward. Watch this video skin care tutorial and learn how to mix up this soothing and exfoliating face mask at home.
This tutorial video will show you how to apply a pretty pink makeup look that's great for fancy occasions. The makeup look shown here is elegant, yet flirty.
Turn your omelet breakfast into dessert or your strawberry ice cream dessert into breakfast with this sweet hollandaise sauce. Watch this cooking tutorial to learn how you can achieve this with the delicious strawberry ice cream hollandaise sauce for your breakfast omelet.
Here's a sweet twist on the typical pork and beans served around the campfire or the dining room table. Watch this cooking tutorial to learn how to make super fudge brownie pork and beans.
Bath County's Edith Bradley convinces Farmer to save room for dessert with her fabulous fried apple pie. Made the old-fashioned way, it's a sweet ending to a wild game meal. Watch this how to video to learn how to make a delicious cinnamon and dried apple pie dessert.
With their hard shells, lobsters aren't the easiest crustaceans to eat. Here, a chef shows you how to open a lobster and locate its sweet, succulent meat.
This crunchy chocolate delight from Jacques Torres is not only simple to make, it also makes a sweet gift. Learn how to make chocolate corn flake clusters and package them into a present.
Whether you're enjoying tea or are just craving a delicate, sweet treat, these pecan sandies are sure to satisfy. Enjoy with a cup of tea.
Nougat is a Middle Eastern sweet made out of pistachios and flavored with rose water. Learn how to make this yummy Persian pistachio nougat at home.
Luci Lock shows you how to make a raw summer drink with sweet cantaloupe melon. It makes a great recipe for carb and mixed types.
When you want a sweet new year this is the perfect recipe to serve! In this video learn to make kosher tzimis with Bubbe.
Moist, sweet prune muffins for the whole family to enjoy. Recipe is great for vegans and vegetarians.
Pornam burelu is an Indian dessert and Chef Sanjay shows you how to make it in this video. It uses sweet dal (puran poli) to start - so if you don't have any, you'll need to make some.
This Indian sweet mango mousse is made soft and fluffy , a sure hit with everyone!
Try fried bananas, Thai-style! With few ingredients and a short cooking time, you won't believe how delicious this simple dessert will be. You will need frozen spring roll pastry wrappers, bananas and cooking oil for frying. Serve the bananas warm. For a special dessert, top them with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.
Want to satisfy your sweet tooth? This recipe for decadent caramel candy apples is simple and whips up fast. You will need ripe red apples, store-bought caramel, water, chopped peanuts, wooden skewers, a double boiler and cupcake papers. Kids love this special treat.
The Singapore Sling is a smooth, slow, sweet cocktail. Serve it at your next party or enjoy it as a nightcap. You will need gin, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, powdered sugar, club soda, cherry brandy and a lemon wedge and cherry to garnish.
The Martinez is the one of the predecessors to the martini. The sweet citrus and gin-vermouth combination with small amounts of triple sec and orange bitters results in a smooth and uplifting drink. Ingredients are gin, dry vermouth, triple sec, bitters, and a lemon twist. Serve in a chilled martini glass.
A specialty among select Miami bars, Purple Rain is a sweet martini with a layering technique that gives the drink its signature purple glow. You will need vodka, wild berry martini mix, cherry juice, a shaker filled with ice, a spoon for layering effect and a purple orchid to garnish.
It's hard to eat healthy sometimes when dining out, but it's even HARDER to pick a healthy dessert. In this video, Bethenny Frankel gives some great tips for satisfying your sweet tooth when out.
Chef John wants to celebrate tender and sweet spring peas, and delicate star-shaped pasta (Stellette) in a simple salad, and he is not going to clutter it up trying to clean out the vegetable bins. Everything about this salad is subtle. The tender peas barely get cooked by sitting in the hot pasta for a few minutes. The dressing is nothing more than some lemon and oil.
If you are into levitating things then here is the trick for you. Learn how to levitate a cup off of a table. Add this trick to the other levitation tricks and create an arsenal of wicked sweet magic tricks.
This fruity salsa blends the sweet taste of pineapples with spicy vegetables. Enjoy it with corn chips or over chicken or fish. You will need cilantro, garlic gloves, white onion, red pepper, jalapeno pepper, juice of a lemon, salt and pepper, for an execellent twist on a traditional Mexican sauce.
Nothing completes a fresh-made cake more than a sweet coating of icing. Learn how long you should let a cake cool before frosting it, and also how to ice a crumb coat. You will need a cake stand, offset spatula, icing and cake.
A subtly sweet melon, cantaloupe is a refreshing summertime snack. See the different ways to cut a cantaloupe, from chunks to slices. You know your cantaloupe is ripe when it: yields to slight pressure, has yellowish skin, has a fresh aroma at the end where the stem was attached, has a healthy outer rind free of tears or cuts. Be sure to refrigerate the sliced melon in plastic bags or airtight containers within 2 hours of cutting it.
Do you plan on entertaining soon? Serve your fruit salad in this fun pineapple boat and you'll have one less bowl to wash when the party's over. All you need to get started is a long knife and a short knife. A pineapple is ripe when the stalk smells sweet, it is firm and there are no dents. Pineapples are a great fruit that can be eaten with any meal!
Barbecue chicken wings are great at parties or as a snack. And chances are, you have all the ingredients you need in your pantry.
A delicious dessert enjoyed across the globe, rice pudding is a satisfying way to end any meal. Try this traditional rice pudding recipe baked with a sweet meringue topping. You will need long grain rice, milk, eggs, granulated sugar, vanilla, and raisins or dried fruit, if desired.
Absinthe is a legendary drink prized by artists, writers, and intellectuals for their "magical" ability to stimulate the imagination (ie. to make people hallucinate) and spawn artistic endeavor.
In this video tutorial, learn how to make delicious Korean stuffed peppers. This particular recipe calls for beef & is very spicy so be warned! Tips & info from the cook:
Celebrate America's birthday the way the Founding Fathers might have, by whipping up a batch of Plantation Punch. Howcast presents this video recipe guide to mixing the alcoholic drink: The Founding Father's Plantation Punch. Perfect for the 4th of July.
If you have a taste for sweets, you have at least one thing in common with mosquitoes. While too much sugar is unhealthy for humans, a new product makes sweets deadly to mosquitoes.
Squiche, also known as a sweet quiche, is the newest trend to hit the brunch table. For those who are not familiar with this delectable dessert, it's a close cousin to a custard tart, but less sweet and with the density of a savory quiche. It's also really simple to make—in whatever flavor you desire.
Even if you haven't heard of ube (pronounced "OO-beh"), you've probably seen pictures of desserts made with this brilliant purple yam.