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How To: Make potato and green bean salad with Paula Deen

Paula's twist to potato salad uses new red potatoes and green beans. This cooking how-to video is part of Paula's Best Dishes show hosted by Paula Deen. What happens when America's favorite southern cook opens up her kitchen to family, friends, viewers and the best home cooks in the country? It's anyone's guess! Paula Deen is cooking up something new as she rescues viewer recipes, shares stories and traditions with friends and strangers alike, while learning the secrets of some of America's b...

How To: Marinade food for cooking

Learn some basic tips on how to marinade with the Rookie Cook. Watch this how to video and learn a technique that is essential if you want to be a good cook. Marinating allows you to infuse great flavor into any kind of meat. Marinades also tenderize meat making it juicy and soft. Follow along with this cooking tutorial to learn how to marinade.

How To: Cook pasta with lavender with The New York Times

Lavender is a very underrated herb,and not many people use it for cooking. In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, adds an unusual flavor to an old favorite. Watch and learn how to cook pasta with lavender. All you need for this NY Time recipe is: zucchini, carrot, red pepper, oil, garlic, lavender and pasta.

How To: Cook stuffed veal breast

Stuff veal to add moisture and substance to your meal. Veal should be cooked more like poultry than beef. Make your favorite stuffing and allow it to cool before addressing the veal. Be careful not to overstuff the veal breast. Finally, tie it shut with cooking twine, season and cook.

How To: Cook moo tom khem Thai pork stew with Kai

In this dish, you can use pork legs or pork tenderloin. It's called moo tom khem or khai pae lo in Thailand. Serve it with cooked rice. You will need pork, sugar, boiled eggs, ginger, pae lo Chinese five spice powder, and cooking oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make moon tom khen, or pork stew, with Thai chef Kai.

How To: Cook Olive Garden's Chianti braised short ribs

Braising, one of Olive Garden Executive Chef Paolo Lafata's favorite techniques, is a slow cooking process that produces extremely tender and flavorful meat without much effort. A great choice for the cooler months, the dish is anchored by tender beef short ribs that are slow cooked in a Chianti wine sauce and accompanied by a savory Portobello mushroom risotto, with a hint of Marsala wine. Watch this how to video to learn how to cook Olive Garden's Chianti braised short ribs.

How To: Grill lobster in the oven with garlic and butter

Lobster, cooked in the oven or on grilled, is a gourmet treat. This is a recipe for grilled lobster that can also be cooked in the oven. This succulent recipe is better than anything Red Lobster has to offer. Watch this how to video and cook a lobster yourself with this recipe. You'll soon know why cooking lobster at home is the way to go.

How To: Cook a simple and delicious turkey

For great turkey recipes, turn to chef Jason Hill, who shows you how to cook a turkey easily and without fuss, using a simple turkey brine. Also in this roast turkey video are turkey tips for your next big holiday meal and turkey cooking times. The ingredients are a whole turkey, water, parsley, sage leaves, bay leaves, dried thyme, peppercorns, and kosher salt. Learn how to prepare these delicious turkey dishes by watching this video cooking tutorial.

How To: Cook Chinese beef fried rice with Kai

Beef fried rice is easy to make. Just remember to use cooked rice that had been cool for at least 4-5 hours. My favorite dark soy is mushroom flavor dark soy sauce. You will need rice, beef, corn, peas, carrots, salt, sugar, garlic powder, and cooking oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to prepare Chinese beef fried rice with Thai chef Kai.

How To: Create a Web 2.0 reflective logo in Photoshop

In this video tutorial you will learn to use Photoshop to create a shiny reflective logo in a web 2.0 style. Not sure what Web 2.0 is? It generally refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

How To: Tie a women's turban

This style originated from the western Sikh communities in America. Most western Sikh women who become a Sikh wear a turban (whether or not they are Amritdhari). This is a common style which is worn. Usually it is at least two layers. One layer of turban fabric and then a white chuni at the final "finished" layer.

How To: Make mashed potatoes with sausage (bangers & mash)

In this tutorial, we learn how to make mashed potatoes and sausages. To start, peel your potatoes and then cut them into quarters. Now, place them into a large pot filled with water and salt, then place the lid on and simmer for 15 minutes. While these are cooking, cook your sausages in a pan with oil cooking until brown on both sides. While these are cooking, heat up a frying pan and chop up your onions, then throw them inside the pan. Cook these until the caramelize, then set aside. Now, dr...

How To: Cook a brisket in a smoker

The great thing about brisket, is that it can be cooked so many different ways. One of the most popular ways to cook it is by rubbing it with spices and cooking it over wood or even charcoal. That is one way of smoking the meat and is easy to do and can make the meat quite delicious. So check out the tutorial above on how to cook a brisket in a smoker. Enjoy!

How To: Cook under a tarp in rain

This is a video about shelter cooking. We are shown how people who are hammock camping in the rain are able to cook under their tarp. This is important because you have to have some way to cook under your shelter when it rains, and there's no way you can have a fire under there without getting smoked out. It makes life easier if you can set up a stove inside your shelter to cook on. We are shown two ways to do this, and both systems work well. One way is to use an alcohol stove. You can make ...

How To: Cook chicken marsala and mushrooms in under 30 minutes

This video cooking tutorial shows how to prepare a thirty-minute chicken breast with marsala wine and mushrooms gourmet meal as instructed by the entertaining and charming Chef Dario, Southwest Florida's number one Italian Chef. The ingredients are red pepper, tomato, provolone, proscuitto, chicken, marsala wine, mushrooms, spinach, seasonal fruit, and sweet vermouth. Learn how to prepare this delicious dish by watching and following along with the step by step directions.

How To: Build your own sous vide rig for cooking

Sous vide, or ultra-low temperature poaching, is transformed into a safe and precise science when you create your own rig in this informative video from Cooking With Geeks entrepreneur Jeff Potter. The essential components of this cooking device are a slow cooker, a thermocouple and a temperature controller. Watch the video to see these components combine into a DiY sous vide rig.

How To: Cook an authentic tikka masala with chicken

Chicken tikka masala is a delicious curry dish, originating in India but now being cooked and served worldwine. You don't have to be a master of Indian cooking to make this dish - it's easy to make this spicy, flavorful dish at home. You don't even need chicken - tikka masala can also be made with lamb, beef or fish.

How To: Grill chicken with champion pitmaster, Chris Lilly

Chris Lilly grills chicken in this video. First, grab your whole chicken and brush olive oil onto the entire chicken. Now, place a dry rub of different spices onto the outside of the chicken as well as on the inside. When you are finished seasoning, grill the chicken at 300 degrees for around two hours. If you don't have a rotisserie, grab a can of beer and place it into the chicken, then sit it on the grill and cook it until the chicken is finished. You can also cook the chicken while cut in...

How To: Cook a cheap eggplant parmesan

Cooking with a budget can be a challenge. But just because money is limited, that doesn't have to be true for flavor. This eggplant parmesan can be made for only six dollars but it will taste like it came straight out of a fine restaurant. This video will show you how to cook a low budget eggplant parmesan.

How To: Cook Argentinian corn empanadas

You don't have to go out to the restaurant to cook up this South American classic. You can make your own corn empanadas at home tonight! This recipe from The Food Network takes you through everything you need to know to make killer empanadas. This video will show you how to cook corn empanadas.

How To: Cook an Indian style paella

Paella, the classic Spanish dish of chicken, prawns and rice is one of the most commonly cooked dishes around the world. You can mix things up by tweaking the ingredients such as substituting basmati rice. This video will show you how to cook an Indian style paella.

How To: Cook chicken with mole sauce

Cook up one of the most beloved and classic dishes around with this recipe for chicken mole. This easy to follow recipe from Cookus Interruptus incorporates all of the delicious, multi-faceted flavors of chicken mole without any of the intimidating and confusing kitchen talk. This video will show you how to cook chicken mole.

How To: Cook baby squid with caramelized onions

Chef Jose from Made In Spain is here with some authentic Spanish cooking to teach you. Join Jose as he cooks up some yummy baby squid with caramelized onions. This recipe is incredibly simple and full of rich flavor. Enjoy it as a snack at work or make it for dinner at home.

How To: Understand the basics of food safety in cooking

"Foodborne illnesses are responsible for more than 75 million illnesses, more than 230,000 hospitalizations, and approximately 5000 deaths each year in the United States." In this six-part video lesson, learn about the basics of food safety in a commercial food enviornment. In the first video, three types of contamination are gone over as well as how improper handling can allow food to become dangerous to your patrons. In video two, learn about proper holding times and temperatures, and what ...

How To: Prepare and cook a meal as a Boy Scout

As a Boy Scout, when the First Class rank is attained, a scout has learned all the basic camping and outdoors skills of a scout. He can fend for himself in the wild, lead others on a hike or campout, set up a camp site, plan and properly prepare meals, and provide first aid for most situations he may encounter. A First Class scout is prepared.