In this video, Robert will teach you how to write a Japanese poem called a haiku. First, you will learn a bit about what a haiku is, as well as its structure. A haiku is a poem with three lines: the first is five syllables long, the second is seven syllables long, and the third is five syllables long. You will learn that haikus can be about anything; there is no standard "rule" to follow involving what you write. It doesn't have to rhyme, and it can be about anything, even thoughts. During th...
Learn how to make a homemade kite with this video. To do this you will need a regular plastic bag, some plastic straws, string and scissors. Begin by using the scissors to cut the bag in half, around the edges. Once you have this, make a rhombus shape out of it. You will need five straws and tape. Use one straw for the top and two straws on each side. Make sure that these two sides are the same side. Add clear or regular tape to stick the straws to the plastic bag. Lastly, tie the string at t...
CookiesHugs teaches you how to make an adorable hair bow for girls. For this, you will need a ribbon, scissors, glue gun, a hair clip, and a ruler. Cut 14-15 cm of the ribbon. Put clear nail polish on the ends of the ribbon. Fold the ribbon in half, width wise. Glue one side of the ribbon to the crease in the middle. Do the same on the other side as well. Place glue in the middle and fold the top and the bottom together. Wrap a piece of ribbon in on the outside, in the middle. On the back of ...
Personal fitness coach Yuri Elkaim demonstrates how to do high intensity interval training for beginners on treadmills. Start out with a light walk on a treadmill for about three to five minutes. From a walk, do a low grade jog for 30 seconds. Then, switch to a minute and a half of walking. Use a three to one ratio of low intensity to high intensity workout. As the workout progresses, it will get more challenging. Repeat the workout interval repetitions for 10 to 15 minutes. The interval work...
This video shows how easy it is to make a great looking cupcake bouquet. You will need half a Styrofoam ball, a flower pot, some toothpicks, a piping bag with a flower tip, some colored icing and, of course, the cupcakes. Place the piece of Styrofoam in the flower pot and arrange the toothpicks to mark where you will place the cupcakes.
This recipe from the 10-Minute Cook explains how to make jerk barbecue sauce. She starts with half a pint of tomato ketchup and adds one teaspoon of tamarind paste, which gives it a sweet and sour fruit flavor. She then adds a teaspoon of mustard, the juice of one lime, two tablespoons of honey, and a tablespoon of the jerk marinade that is show in a previous 10-minute Cook video. Mix it all together to make the sauce. This is a recipe form a Caribbean island version of barbecue sauce that wi...
To style short hair for an everyday look, first blow dry your wet hair with Bed Head Superstar Blow Dry Lotion. Then, using a hair straightener, straighten your hair on a curved angle. Roll your hair straightener on an 180 degree angle and lift your hair up. For your crown area, just lift and curve your hair backwards. Use the same process for your bangs. Using your hair straightener, just curl your bangs backwards. Next, to tease your hair, clip up half your hair because it makes it easier a...
In order to cook rice and peas, heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions and garlic. Then cook for two minutes. Then add 2 cups of long grain rice and stir the ingredients. Lower the heat and add jerk marinade, thyme (dried & fresh). Then add spring onions cut them in half. Next add 2 cups of coconut milk and 2 cups of water. Then add a tin of boiled kidney beans or another type of beans of your preference. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes and your dish is ready.
The video is a description of the preparation of meatloaf. A pan is heated to medium or medium-high, and between 2 and 3 tablespoons of olive oil is added. Two chopped onions and two cloves of garlic are added. Next, sauté until opaque. Add one teaspoon of basil, one of oregano, and one of onion powder. Wile those are cooking, in a separate bowl, add two pounds of ground beef, two-thirds cup of bread crumbs, an egg, a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce and a quarter-cup of ketchup. Add the on...
Carolineartiss teaches you how to make a healthy potato salad. Take 1 kilogram of new potatoes, wash them and cut them in half. Add one teaspoon of paprika, a pinch of turmeric and some ground cumin seeds. Also add ground coriander. Also add some salt on top and mix them all together. Drizzle a bit of olive oil on top of the potatoes in the cooking pan. Place them in the oven at 195 degrees centigrade for about 40 minutes. Chop the small red onion, with a celery. Add those on top of the potat...
In this five and a half minute video tutorial the host Dana Lajeunesse, "the MAMA of Makeup," conveys to viewers how to put on make up in fashion to look like the character Blind Mag from the rock opera "Repo." Throughout the video Dana covers various steps and methods for applying makeup in different ways in order to have a near perfect result. She covers topics such as what types of makeup to use and how to apply it. Most of the makeup is applied around the eyes so viewers should be prepare...
This video shows the detailed procedure to line a cake tin. Firstly, the demonstrator cuts off a square paper just smaller than the base of the tin. Then she measures off a length of paper for covering the sides. She folds it in half lengthwise twice. After careful folding and cutting off small triangular portions at the folds, she then skillfully places it to cover the sides completely. The last step in the procedure is to place the square paper for the base. She thus lines the cake tin full...
Start by obtaining a bag of garbanzo beans and soak them in water overnight. After they have soaked overnight, put them in fresh water again with one tablespoon of baking soda in the water and boil them for about two and a half hours until they are really tender and soft. After they have been boiled, put them in a food processor with some of the juice. Add two pieces of garlic, one tablespoon of tahini sauce, fresh squeezed lemon juice from 2 ½ lemons and a dash of salt. Then run it in the fo...
The template for this heart-shaped window card can be found at [www.stampininspirations.blogspot.com stampininspirations.blogspot.com]. You will need the template and cardstock and the other usual materials needed to make a card. You can re-size the template to about 5 1/2 inches across by about 5 1/2 inches high. Cut out the heart and remove the center heart as well. Take an 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of red card stock and fold it in half, then trace the inside and outside of the heart-shaped te...
This is step-by-step video tutorial on how to make a basic but adorable cat puppet. The kids will have such a good time cutting and gluing the materials to make their very own puppet. The process is very quick and very easy. The materials you will need are: Felt (black, white and yellow), 2 googly eyes, scissors, and fabric glue. First cut out 2 triangles for the ears. Glue the circular edges of a half circle of felt together and glue the ears to it. Glue the eyes, nose, mouth, whiskers, and ...
This cookery video from Organic Living TV shows you how to prepare an authentic Indian vegan dahl dish. Soak the lentils for about 10-15 minutes and pour into a pan on stove as demonstrated. Add a bit of vegetable oil and turmeric and stir as shown and cover the pan with a lid and boil for 15 minutes. Take another pan, oil it and add cumin, onion, grated garlic, grated ginger, a chopped tomato, tomato puree, salt, gar-am mas-ala, ground cumin and stir as shown. Add the par-cooked lentils to t...
This video describes the process of making homemade apple sauce. You start out with apples which are for cooking, such as granny smith, something with a little tartness. Apples then have to be pealed and cut into eighths. The apples are then cored and made to be about the same size. Next, its time to cook the apples in a sauce pan; for each apple use 1/4 - 1/3 cup of water. Cook for 5 to 10 minutes and flip them half way. Each apple will require 1/8 cup of brown sugar along with a sprinkle of...
In order to solve a quadratic equation by completing the square, take a quadratic equation and make sure that the coefficient of the first squared term in one. If it is not factor it by pulling the term out to get it to one. Now just write down the first two terms in side a bracket and after it add the third term. Now take the coefficient of the x term and take one half of it and square it and put that number back into the bracket. Now as you added a new number, to cancel it out subtract it f...
For Lemon Meringue Nests you will need the following: Some ready made meringue nest,
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to cook lobster tails. Users can choose to bake or broil the lobster tail. Begin by cutting the outer shell of the lobster tail. Users should cut vertically down the middle and horizontally at the bottom of the tail. Take the tail meat. Now users can choose to add some seasoning or flavoring to the tail. Another way to prepare the lobster tail is too just cut the tail vertically in half and leave the shell on. This video will benefit those viewers who...
The video is all about making a cat ear. The lady explained the steps we need to follow while making our own cat ears. For making the cat ears, we need fake fur fabric, which should form a square when we fold it half, a white down feather, a glue gun, scissors and a diadem.
She begins the video by telling us that this is a great way to finish off that Mexican dinner. She gives a list of the ingredients and begins to mix. In your cream bucket pour a quarter cup of triple sec, a bottle of beer, half a liter of tequila, two cans of frozen limeade and one large can of frozen lemonade, and a few splashes of Roses lime juice. Add twelve cups of water and reassemble your ice cream bucket. Add the ice and rock salt to the ice cream maker and get it turning. Let the mach...
Supplies you will need. 1 toilet paper roll
Learn how to remove marks from your stainless steel appliances using olive oil. 1 Apply a little bit of olive oil to a clean rag and rub the olive oil all over your stainless steel appliance. 2 Fold the rag in half. Make sure that there is no olive oil on the exposed part of the rag. 3 Pour white vinegar onto the rag. 4 Rub the white vinegar soaked rag onto the appliance to remove the olive oil. 5 Using a clean rag, remove all residue from the appliance and let dry.
In this video you can learn how to make delicious spaghetti squash. Fill the pot with salted water. Cut squash in half with the serrated knife and remove the seed portion. Place squash in the water, then boil and cook until fork tender. Allow it to cool enough to handle. Using a fork going lengthwise, scrape entire squash until you're only left with skin. Discard the skin. While still warm, add pesto, 2 tbsp. of the cheese and salt and pepper, then toss. Warm in saute pan until microwave, spr...
Want a card trick to amaze and wow your friends? With just a normal deck of cards, you can fool and fascinate your friends by just following this video. First of all, go through your deck and grab 12 diamonds, 6 clubs, 3 hearts and 2 spades. Now hand these cards to your friend and have them shuffle and mix them up. With probability, the chance of a diamond showing up is over 50 percent. So all you have to do is predict that the card on the top of the deck is a diamond. More than half the time...
In this video you will learn how to create a homemade vanilla icing from scratch. To begin with you want to put about a cup and a half of powdered sugar into a bowl and then add a good amount of vanilla flavoring and then mix it up. Now, you want to add a little bit of squeeze butter and continue to mix and mash it to get rid of bumps. Next, you want to add a tiny bit of milk to turn the paste into a thinner paste to make it more creamy. If it turns out to be to thin just add more powdered su...
In this video Chava Thomas of the Argonaut's College Cook shows you how to make a Coca-Cola ham. Follow this easy recipe for a tasty Coca-Cola ham: Sprinkle salt all over the meat and rub it in. Use a paring knife to make some diagonal incisions into the fatty area and cover with whole cloves. Put the ham in a large baking pan and pour a whole bottle of Coca-Cola over it. Add a large halved onion to the pan and cover with a lid. Bake at 350 degrees for an hour and a half until the internal te...
In order to make a really good quick little sangria follow the directions in this video. Start by filling up about ¾ of a cup with wine. Add a splash of coke filling up about half of the remaining space in the cup. Add some fresh lime by squeezing a freshly cut lime. Then use a spoon or a stirring stick to stir the drink up a little bit. It is just that quick and you have a nice festive drink for your event.
Miguel Guzman teaches the secrets of baking salmon with pineapple sauce and mango pico. First to make the sauce, cook a cup of pineapple juice in a pan till it is reduced. To make the pico, nicely chop a mango, tomato, pepper, quarter of an onion and half of lime and mix them well. Now season the salmon with salt and pepper and bake it in the oven with a pineapple ring on top. Finally when everything is done, serve the salmon in a plate with the mixture and sauce.
You need to have three kinds of ingredients – Vanilla vodka, pumpkin spice liquor, and Baileys. Find your martini shaker and fill half of it with ice. Add one ounce of vodka, one ounce of pumpkin spice liquor and one ounce of Baileys all in equal parts. You do not need to measure it exactly; you could just pour them into the shaker just approximately in equal parts. Put the cap on your shaker and shake until the outside of the shaker is frosty cold. Then pour the contents of the shaker into a...
In this tutorial the instructor shows how to complete the square to graph a quadratic function using transformations. You can do this by transforming your equation in a series of steps. First make the coefficient of the square term to one by pulling out its numerical coefficient. Now to complete the square of the first part add half the coefficient of the variable with a degree one. Now to maintain the original value of the equation also make sure that you subtract the same value from the equ...
This video helps us learn how to make a well-balanced paper football. Get a square paper. Fold the paper in half. Fold it again in the same direction. Fold the paper diagonally to make a triangle. Flip the triangle up so the point lines up with the left edge. Continue folding triangles up the paper until you reach near the top. Fold the top corner down so that the two points meet, making a triangle in the opposite direction. Tuck the extra paper into the pocket. Now you have a paper football.
Rebecca shares her secret to easily making delicious fresh guacamole. Follow these steps to make a great guacamole: You will need the following ingredients: 4 ripe avocados, one small tomato, a lime, cilantro and some coarse salt. Cut the avocados and place the scoop the flesh into a mixing bowl. Use a fork or potato masher to mash. Chop the tomato and fresh cilantro and add to the bowl. Roll your lime across the counter top to mix the juice inside, cut in half and squeeze into the bowl. Add ...
This video shows you how to photograph lightning in the daytime. Set the ISO to 100.The aperture set at f32 and set for half of a second. Meter should be showing averaged. Photograph in the manual mode so that the setting won't change between photographs. Manually focus lens to infinity so you won't have to wait for the focus to lock on. A remote shutter to just hit the button. Be safe and keep camera safe when taking lightning photographs. Don’t get under trees. When lightning starts strikin...
This is a great recipe in a time crunch; it can be put together in fifteen minutes. On a cutting board chop a half an onion. Add a tablespoon of butter to a frying pan and work it around as it melts. Once the pan is well oiled, place a flour tortilla in the bottom of the pan with the heat at a medium setting. Place some cheese slices on the tortilla followed by some slices of ham and top with the chopped onion. Keep in mind to keep all the ingredients spread around evenly so it all melts even...
This video teaches the secrets of making a frog pop-up card in simple steps. First draw a frog in a card by outlining its mouth wide open as shown in the video. Now fold the card into half with the frog image on front. Cut the center and fold it to both sides using the outlines as shown. Open the card to check the pop-up. Finally stick a colored card to the back and do some coloring to finish.
How to make a green apple martini to make this green apple martini you need a martini glass. Put some ice in the glass to chill it down. Set the martini glass with the ice to the side. Take a mixing glass and put some ice in the glass. Add one ounce of vodka, one and a half ounces of apple schnapps, a dash of melon liquor, and a splash of sweet and sour mix. Stir it up rather than shaking it. Dump the ice out of the chilled martini glass. Put a strainer on the mixing glass. Drop a maraschino ...
Do you have a SLR and yet you feel that you are missing out on some features? Let's check out the back button focus. When you press the shutter button half way, it moves the focus to the back button. One can activate their camera's focus while the taking the picture which pretty much becomes a manual mode but gives you a lot of independence while taking pictures and it helps keep your subject in focus. This will benefit in taking pictures of high contrast.
Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to make a delicious festive Italian Fruit Punch. Mix together two cups of chilled orange juice, two cups of chilled sparkling water, a quarter cup of limoncello lemon liqueur and a half cup of maraschino liqueur. Mix together well. Carefully pour into martini glasses. Garnish each drink with one or two sticks of licorice, perfect for a Halloween celebration. Follow these easy steps to create a deliciously festive Italian fruit punch for your next get-together.
