Eat scorpions?!? Of course! Insects can be a great source of protein. Scorpion soup, which you can cook in a wok, may be served as a main course or an appetizer. Learn the key to cooking this unique soup, and amaze your friends at the next dinner party or potluck you attend!
Vimal M. cooks a delicious and economical Indian-inspired three course gourmet meal (a soup, entree, and dessert) using potatoes. Learn how to prepare this potato dinner by watching and following along with this video cooking tutorial.
You may not have thunk it, but if you own a stainless steel water bottle you have a great tool that can be used for cooking. Although it won't make three course meals, a stainless steel water bottle can be changed so that you can cook soup, beans, and other small food items.
Cook a hearty turkey pot pie that will be absolutely perfect for a cold winter night. You will need:
This video demonstrates a way to cook a sirloin steak with a gravy sauce as a main course. In a large frying pan put some oil to sear the steak. You will know that the oil is hot and ready for the meat when it begins to smoke. Season with salt, pepper, and sear the steak until each side is brown. Next place the meat in an oven and cook at 350 degrees for six minutes. While the meat is cooking is a good time to make the gravy. In the pan that you used to sear the steak add some red wine, veal ...
Nothing's better than frying up some eggs over the morning fire when you're camping. The smell of the outdoors, the heat of the fire, the bubbling of the eggs as they sit in that hot pan. But wait, what if you don't have a pan? If you don't have one, or you'd like to save the space in your camping bags, then try this out…
When cooking on a budget, you have to try to get as much bang for your buck as you can. And when cooking you want to make sure that you are getting a large portion size enough to make you happy. In this video you will learn how to make stuffed Mexican squash with a cheese sauce. These make a great main course that you can also serve with a salad.
Leslie Green from the Hungry Housewife shows you how to truss a chicken for cooking. To begin, you need of course, a whole raw chicken. You will also need about 3 feet of twine or string. Fold the twine in half so it is even on both sides. Place the chicken on its back with its legs facing upwards toward you. Place the twine underneath the chicken, and come up around each end of the chicken legs. Tuck the chicken's wings underneath its body. Pull the twine tight, and criss cross it so it goes...
From Thanksgiving turkeys to grilled chicken, basting helps add incomparable moisture, tenderness, and flavor to any dish. So if you've never basted before and would like to experience the oily awesomeness that is basted food, check out this food video for a tutorial using chicken and melted butter as an example.
It is hard to come up with a dish that everyone will enjoy, especially after coming home after work. In this how to video our host shows you how to throw some stuff from the fridge together for a wholesome and quick meat. Watch these three videos as he prepares the main course. He starts with a fresh salad with veggies and home fries. Continue by marinating the swordfish in some dry vermouth for great flavor. Enjoy.
Building a fire in the wild is key to survival. A simple way to get the job done is with a piece of charcloth (carbonized cotton fiber). Charcloth makes for a highly effective piece of tinder to ensure you'll have a warm fire tonight. You'll need your hardened steel, your sparking stone, dry leaves or sticks and of course your piece of charcloth. Get cooking!
This easy and elegant white button mushroom ragout dish is as versatile as it is delicious. It can be served as a first course, a main course, or even as a sauce for chicken or meat.
Pork chops are one of the staples of Western meat cooking (excepting the Jewish and Islamic traditions where pork is forbidden, of course). There are many, many different recipes to prepare them, and this video demonstrates how to make a relatively simple preparation with an onion gravy in a pan. It's hard to screw up pork chops, but this recipe looks especially flavorful and easy to make.
A very easy to make recipe using simple ingredients like salt, butter, potatoes (of course), etc. Learn how to make mashed potatoes in a step wise way using by viewing this video. The different part about this video is that the entire recipe involves no gravy. If, for some reason you don't like gravy or you want to try a different method of cooking potatoes just for experiments sake, see this video.
In this cooking how-to video tutorial we show you how to smoke any chicken in a smoker with marinade. Watch and learn to make the best smoked chicken wings ever. All the ingredients you need to start smoking some poultry is: Blackening seasoning, garlic, Durkee chicken seasoning, soy sauce, celery salt, Italian seasoning, olive oil and of course chicken.
Strawberries stuffed with cream cheese and topped with chocolate make for a sinfully delicious fruity dessert. The recipe calls for cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, melted chocolate, and of course, strawberries. Learn how to prepare this stuffed strawberry recipe by watching this video cooking tutorial.
Chef Jason Hill shares an authentic Mexican salsa recipe using 7 simple ingredients: cilantro, jalapenos, kosher salt, garlic, lime, onion, and of course, tomatoes. Your friends will BEG you for this recipe! Learn how to prepare this salsa by watching and following along with this video cooking tutorial.
Chef Sanjay shows you how to make his version of a stuffed turkey breast (with an Indian flavor flair of course)!
In this video, from BBCFood, Chef Barney Desmazery shows us how to pan fry a sirloin steak to medium-rare perfection. First, of course, you need some sirloin steak, about 150 grams per portion. Look for a piece of steak that has some nice marbling of fat and nice color. The pan-frying method we're using to cook this sirloin steak can be applied to any piece of meat. You'll need a dry pan. Rub a bit of oil on the steak, and then add some salt (preferably sea salt) and pepper on both sides. Nex...
Make the perfect side vegetable dish this evening with this divine recipe for glazed carrots. Serve your man course with a complimentary dish that will have your guest's mouths watering. This recipe yields 6 servings.
Need a new recipe for a crispy batter for fried fish? The Original Naked Chef uses a simple seasoned flour and water base with an extra twist. He adds a healthy dose of Guinness beer to the mix. This affords a rich and fragrant batter. Chef believes that the perfect surface for cooking fish is in a shallow skillet with very hot oil. Simply dipping the fillets in the batter and allowing them to fry several minutes per side yields a mouth-watering main course. Serve with chips and Guinness beer...
Simmering or poaching food is a total pain sometimes. The problems are numerous: a layer exposed to air often dries out and creates a gross skin that can ruin the texture of the sauce, the poaching liquid evaporates too quickly and causes the poached protein to burn, and so on.
This penne pasta with fresh cherry tomato sauce recipe is a perfect way to use the incredibly sweet Sun Gold tomatoes. Of course they're great raw on salads, but why only enjoy this delicious cherry tomato cold? This simple penne pasta recipe may not have lots of fancy ingredients, but what it does have is a beautiful sunny gold color and lots of flavor!
Learn how to caramelize onions. The sweet, mellow flavor of caramelized onions will enhance any soup or main course, and they also taste great as a side dish.
Cook these ground beef nachos tonight for a delicious snack. You will need tortillas, ground beef, taco seasoning, refried beans, and of course some cheese. Add jalapenos, lettuce, and tomatoes to get your veggies in.
This thick, creamy winter soup cooks up in just 35 minutes and makes a hearty main course.
Watch this how to video to learn a super easy way to prepare brussel sprouts. All you need is a little Italian salad dressing and of course brussel sprouts.
Almost everyone believes that a dish with a sophisticated, upscale, cool presentation is going to be difficult to make, but that philosophy is just flat out wrong. And this "Spicy Alaskan Tower" is going to show you just how easy it is. It's a great tower with great seafood ingredients for seafood enthusiasts, made of smoked salmon, spicy mayo sauce, topped with avocado, fresh crab meat and caviar. And there's two ways to present this recipe: as a main course or as an appetizer. Learn both of...
Cookbook author, celebrity chef, television personality, and former White House nuclear policy analyst Ina Garten is familiar to many as the queen of foolproof cooking. Also known as the Barefoot Contessa, Ina hones in on techniques and tips that make time in the kitchen far less intimidating to folks of all skill sets. We've rounded up 8 of Ina's most useful cooking tips to help you out—from dinner parties to everyday cooking. Her philosophy is that it's always easier than you think!
It's no secret that the microwave is a modern-day wonder that, when used correctly, can cook a wide variety of food in a snap.
All waves in the electromagnetic spectrum (light, x-rays, radio waves, microwaves, etc.) travel at the speed of light c=299,792,458 m/s. For any wave, the wavelength times the frequency yields the speed:
Beer can turkey? Sounds like a joke, right? Well, it may have started off as one, but now shoving a beer can up the butt of a turkey is a much favored cooking technique in lieu of the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. With the beer can up its butt, it helps steam the turkey to keep it moist and tender, all while giving it that perfect aroma and taste.
Cook the perfect prime rib by mathematically calculating a precise cooking and resting time. In this video tutorial, a bone-in prime rib is seasoned with the secret ingredient parve and is cooked to a medium-rare pink with the perfect rare moisture.
In this video, we learn how to cook soft delicious beans. First, you want to make sure you are never using really old beans, around more than 2 years old. To keep your beans from getting old, add some citrus to them so they don't soften. Also, make sure you have the right water level when you are cooking the beans. Last, you want to make sure you are cooking the beans enough and not too much. To cook them right, use fresh beans and soak them for around 2-6 hours. Then, saute vegetables in the...
Cook fresh lobster without fear using these easy tips. Lobster makes a delicious, extravagant Christmas dinner. Don't be intimidated by this cooking process, these hints will help. Learn how to cook lobster and prepare the cooked lobster for eating. Yum! Nothing like fresh lobster for the holidays.
Watch this instructional cooking video to cook a favorite Japanese dessert. Make two types of Kudzu mochi. Each recipe serves two.
This instructional cooking video shows you how to cook Goya Chanpuru. Goya Chanpuru is a traditional Japanese stir fry. The Goya is a bitter melon that you will need to treat with salt to remove the bitter aftertaste.
A simple and easy way to make lasagna with the 10 minute cook. There are three parts to making a lasagna, there's making the meat sauce, making the white sauce and the third part is just assembling it all together it placing it in the oven.
It’s an evening of wining and dining and you want your meal to come out perfect. Whether a side dish or main course, please your crowd with pasta al dente.
Homemade bone stock, onions, sugar, garlic, white wine are the key ingredients to make a delicious French Onion Soup. The simple recipe in this clip is from the BBC cookery series Delia Smith's Cookery Course.
