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How To: Prepare Chinese sticky rice

Chef Daisy teaches you the secrets of preparing Chinese sticky rice in simple steps. First soak the Chinese rice in water with some salt for an hour. Now use two leaves to make a cup shape, add some rice, pork, egg yolk, dry shrimp, Chinese sausage, chestnut, mushroom, green beans and finally some more rice on top. Use two more sticky rice leaves to finish the packing and tie it up two water grass. Repeat the same to make more packs, put it into water boiling at 100 degrees and cook for 4 hou...

How To: Scallops in garlic sauce

This video will show you how to prepare healthy scallops in a garlic sauce. To cook scallops in a garlic sauce you will need the following ingredients: 1 1/2 pound scallops, 1/4 cup vino seco or dry white wine, 1 tablespoon butter, juice of 1 lime, 1/4 cup olive oil, 4 tablespoons garlic, minced, 1/4 teaspoon oregano, pinch of cumin, salt to taste, dash of hot sauce, 1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped. Add all the ingredients to a hot pan, except for the scallops, and let it simmer. Now lay the ...

How To: Decorate a simple wedding cake yourself

Beside the frosted cake, you will need some artificial flowers, some pretty ribbon, a ball of Styrofoam and some saran wrap. Start by covering the Styrofoam ball with a piece of saran wrap. Then clip off small pieces of the dried flowers and stick them all around the ball of Styrofoam. If the flowers have wire stems you will need a pair of wire cutters or pliers for this job. When the ball is completely covered with the flowers, set it in place on top of the cake. Next, measure the ribbon the...

How To: Crack an egg so you can preserve the shell

Learn how to crack an egg so that you can preserve the shell in simple steps. First take an egg and a butter knife and you have to make a hole at its top. To make the hole gently tap the top of the egg to make a crack. Now insert the knife in the crack and peel its top out. Pour the egg yolk in a container and rinse the shell several times with hot water. Spray an anti-bacterial spray to kill any germs in it and let it dry for sometime with its hole facing downwards.

How To: Tease your hair for any occasion

This video shows how to tease your hair for any occasion. Make sure that your hair is dry before starting and brush it well. Separate a section of your hair. Hold the section up firmly with one hand and hold a brush gently against the strands. Lightly brush towards the scalp while continuing to hold up the strand firmly with your other hand. Repeat the teasing motion until the strand has the desired volume. Spray Ion and Herbal Essences. Do it again with the other strands of your hair at the ...

How To: Make a Cuban style roast pork

How to make a Cuban style roast pork in five easy steps. Mix 1 cup naranja agria (sour orange), 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon dried oregano, 4 tablespoon crushed garlic, salt and pepper, and olive oil in a bowl. Place 1 small boneless pork loin roast in a re-sealable plastic bag. Pour marinate into the bag and refrigerate over night. Place the marinated pork loin roast in a baking dish and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Remove foil in the last 15 ...

How To: Make Levain Bakery cookies

Pam and Connie from Levain bakery show you how to make chocolate chip cookies. Here's Pam and Connie's recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies in the country: Cream your butter and sugar. Add your eggs and mix well. Add the dry ingredients and mix, then add the walnuts and chocolate chips. Empty the contents onto a sheet pan and do a little more mixing by hand. Place small handfuls of dough on a cookie sheet and bake.

How To: Avoid RV problems by cleaning your hookup cord

Gary Bunzer the RV Doctor shows how to avoid potential RV problems by cleaning your electrical hookup cord. Before you connect your RV to an electricity supply, make sure to clean and brighten the metal contacts on your shoreline cord. Use fine-grade steel wool to clean all surface corrosion off your cord's prongs. You can also use sandpaper, emery cloth or any other gentle abrasive. After you get the metal prongs clean and shiny, use a dauber or brush to coat the surface of the prongs with a...

How To: Make raw muesli

Karen Knowler, The Raw Food Coach, demonstrates how to make a wonderfully filling raw muesli. Start with a cereal bowl. Coarsely chop and add two or three varieties of nuts of your choosing. In this instance, Karen adds hazelnuts, almonds and brazil nuts. She then adds cut dried apricots, dates and raisins. Blend together with your hands. Now, add fresh fruit of choice. Bananas, blueberries, raspberries and apples are good picks. Stir to blend and finally, pour almond milk to taste over all. ...

How To: Make the best dirty martini and bloody mary

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a dirty martini and Bloody Mary. The dirty martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth. A Bloody Mary is a popular cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings. For a dirty martini, users will require these ingredients: 3 oz of gin or vodka, 2tsp of dry vermouth, 1 tsp of olive brine, 1 olive, and ice. To make a Bloody Mary, users will require these ingredients: 1 1/2 oz of vodka, 3 oz of tomato juice, d...

How To: Design your own clothes & mix dye your clothes

Eddie teaches the secrets of designing your own clothes & mix dying your clothes. First mix together 1 tablespoon golden yellow, 1/2 teaspoon sunshine orange, 1/2 cup salt and 4 cups of hot water. Dip a piece of cloth to check the color, add more dye to make it darker or some water to make it lighter. Pour the dye solution in a big container with water, add some detergent and batter to mix the dye well. Put you plain shirt in hot water for sometime, squeeze it out and put it in the container ...

How To: Remove odor from plastic storage containers

This video describes how to remove unwanted odor from plastic storage containers. The video shows three easy steps to remove odor. Firstly, thoroughly wash the plastic container as you usually would. After it dries, place a few pieces of crumpled up newsprint inside of the container and close the lid. Leave the newsprint in the container for a couple of days before removing the paper. After you remove the paper, simply wash the container again and the odor should be gone. A viewer would benef...

How To: Cook an artichoke

Victoria Walsh from Chatelaine TV will show you how to cook an artichoke in this very simple video. To begin you want to make sure to remove any dried leaves from the artichoke, and then proceed to clip the rough ends of the remaining leaves on the artichoke. Next, you want to cut the top off, and then cut the stem off leaving only about three quarters of an inch. Now, you want to prepare a boiling pot of water and let the artichokes stem in the pot to tender for 25-45mins. To check the tende...

How To: Straighten your hair for any event

Do you know how they divide your hair into sections when you are at the salon? Though it is never easy to reproduce what they do at the salon, but you can do the same thing as best you can (and next time you are at the salon, watch closely to see how they do it). You are going to divide your hair into sections and put all the sections up on top of your head except for the bottom section. Use a brush to select a small segment of hair from the bottom section that you did not put up. Start at th...

How To: Make a cocktail martini

Drink@Drink demonstrates how to make a cocktail martini. First, add ice to a martini glass and a cocktail shaker. Next, stir the ice to chill the glass and the shaker. Then, strain the excess water out of the shaker. Add 8 parts gin and 2 parts martini dry to the shaker. Pour the ice out of the glass. Mix the ice with the gin and martini concoction in the shaker. Strain the mixed martini into the martini glass. Finally, add an olive garnish to the glass, gently mixing it in the martini, to co...

How To: Wear red lipstick to look glamorous

Erin Bried, author of "How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew," will show you how to wear red lip stick when you want to look glamorous. First, you are going to want to soften your kisser, which can be done by taking a damp washcloth or dry toothbrush and using them on your lips. After, you want to take a tissue and blot your lips. Next, you want to line your lips to prevent your lip stick from bleeding out. Make sure you line your real lips though, don't make your ...

How To: Use the Yudu personal screen printer

CreativeXpress shares a video regarding the usage of the Yudu personal screen printer. Put the plastic foil over the design you want on your t-shirt and turn on the light on the printer. This will cause the design from the page to be transfered onto the foil. Then you simply place the shirt onto the foil and place a good amount of ink on top of the foil. Use the squeegee to spread the ink over the design and onto the shirt. Let it dry for a bit, then iron the shirt using a cloth or piece of p...

How To: Make felted flowers

This video is basically about how to make felted flowers with Craftside. For making felted flower things we will need are assorted felt, assorted rhinestones (any size), embroidery floss (any color), a needle, some tacky glue and a pair of scissors. First of all cut out the shape of the flowers from the felt using the scissors. Try experimenting with different shapes and sizes for variety. Then stitch the detail on the petals using the embroidery floss. Use the backstitch for this; then glue ...

How To: Create Rihanna-inspired tiger print nails

Julie teaches the secrets of creating tiger print nails inspired by Rihanna. You will need: a base coat, top coat, nail polish of gold, black and copper colors. First apply a base coat of your choice to the nails and let it dry. Now apply a gold color nail polish on the base coat. Use a copper color nail polish and fill in the tip of your nails as shown. Now use a black color nail polish to draw the tiger stripes. Start drawing a triangle and end up with a line in crooked directions to get ti...

How To: Make a never ending foam snake

In this video the author shows how to make a never ending foam snake. He starts by speaking about how hydrogen peroxide can be fun. He starts with the requirements first which are a dish soap, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, some dry yeast, and a red fruit color. Now he fills up a cup with hydrogen peroxide, adds the color and two table spoons of dish soap. Now he shows how to use yeast which is used to remove the oxygen from the hydrogen peroxide. And finally he demonstrates the never ending ...

How To: Create designs on your destroyed jeans with sandpaper

MakeoverGirl1 presents a video on how to make your jeans look stylish by adding a design using sandpaper. The process is so simple that only a few things are needed for the job: a shape cut out in leather, cardboard or felt; a deck of playing cards; and a piece of sandpaper. Literally all you have to do is place the shape in the back pocket of the jeans, wrap the sandpaper over the deck of cards, and rub the jeans until you see the silhouette of your shape. After that, just rinse and dry. So,...

How To: Multiply and divide to solve equations

This video teaches students how to multiply and divide to solve equations in algebra. The teacher made this video specifically for his class because he points out page numbers from the textbooks that the students can go back and review. He is standing in front of a dry-erase board explaining various examples. This video is intended for people who are very new to this concept because he progresses very slow through his examples and tends to repeat himself. I think this is great for students wh...

How To: Clean your hardwood floors

AskAuntPattie is providing you with some how-to tips when it comes to cleaning your hardwood floors. Use a microfiber pad to dry dust on your floor. There are all different sizes of pads for your needs. You should clean the floor as often as you like. You can test your floor with a mineral smear. Yellow residue is wax finish. Clean smears are polyurethane. If you have a wax floor you should use a base wax. For a polyurethane floor use a type of floor wax from a good company. Go to a place tha...

How To: Make rock candy

You can learn how to make rock candy. The process is very simple. You only need water and sugar. You put the water to boil and then add a cup of sugar. You mix it up and then put it in the sink and poor it into a glass. Then a screw is inserted into the glass to get moisture into the solution. Take it out, leave it for 3 days, then after 3 days sink it again in the solution and then leave it to dry for 1 week.

How To: Bake a potato

To bake a potato start by preheating your oven to 375 degrees. Pierce each potato with a knife and then bake them in the oven for one hour. To get the potato done even faster try using the microwave. Take the potato and cut a length wise wedge out. The wedge cut allows the steam to escape as the potato is heating in the microwave. Do not cover the potato because you don't want to trap the steam. Cook the potato on high for 8-9 minutes. After cooking the potato top them off with a healthy topp...

How To: Paint your shoes

This instructional video shows you how to be creative and paint your shoes. You will need acrylic paint, paint brushes of different sizes, waterproof permanent markers, and spray lacquer. You should create a base coat with white paint. Draw whichever designs you want with a permanent marker. Next color the design with the acrylic paint. Using one color so your paint doesn't dry out. Fill in the background with whichever color you chose. Then spray with a lacquer and you are finished.

How To: Make garlic mashed potatoes from scratch

In the video Make Garlic Mashed Potatoes we learn how to get the garlic taste into mashed potatoes. All it takes is to sauté the potatoes after boil with butter and garlic before mashing. The video adds steps to this process some of which are unnecessary such as clean then drying the potatoes before peeling. Other steps such as adding milk were omitted from the camera only to be added in a text. The process of sauté is the essential step here which makes the video worth watching. Other ingred...

How To: Create a mosaic jewelry box

This video demonstrates making a mosaic jewelry box. A plain jewelry box is decorated using different shaped pieces of glass. First, round flat glass pieces are glued in the center of the top and sides. Then a ring of glue is put around the circle and rectangular pieces are glued around that. Square tiles are used around the top edge, and odd shaped pieces are used to fill in the rest of the surface area of the box. After it has dried for two hours, a glaze is applied to the entire box. This ...

How To: Make custom buttons out of paper & clear buttons

In this video, Marion shows you how make your own custom buttons. She first picks-out a piece of scratch paper, a clear button, and glue (glassy accents). You then apply some of the glue onto the button and lay the button onto the paper and let it dry. Next you would cut the paper around the button as close as you can with precision scissors. You would now use a file to sand the edges of the paper down. That is how Marion shows you, how to make a customized button.

How To: Prepare for installing laminate flooring

This video tutorial shows you the proper way to prepare for the installation of laminate flooring. One thing you need to do is maintain a temperature of a minimum of 65 degrees. You can install it practically anywhere, as long as there is no moisture or dampness. Concrete, ceramic, wood , and vinyl are all find for installation but the surface needs to be dry, flat and smooth. This video is a simple guide to give you some precautions before you begin your installation.

How To: Paint a neon nail polish design

In this how-to video you learn how to apply neon color nail polish. The process begins by applying a base white coat and allowing it to dry. You use white because it brings out the neon the best. Once you have the base coat you begin applying the neon colors in any design of your choosing. If you use an outline it helps solidify your design and the results are much clearer. The entire process takes about six to seven minuets and is perfect for teenage girls.

How To: Style side hair spikes in 3 to 5 minutes

This video will instruct you step by step on how to style side hair spikes. Starting with a straightening iron you ensure all hair is as straight as possible. Once done you would apply hair spray where you want the spikes to be. Then you run your fingers up through your hair to get your hair to spike. Continue running your finger up through hair until the hairspray begins to dry and the spikes stay. Apply more hairspray as needed to make sure they stay. Very quick and easy to follow way to cr...

How To: Make chocolate crinkle cookies

In this video, he shows you how to make chocolate crinkle cookies. He starts out by showing you all the ingredients that will be needed for this recipe. He combines the butter and granulated sugar and mixes the two together and adds the cream slowly while he is still mixing the ingredients. Now the next step would be to add the cocoa powder and melted chocolate and mix those in. The eggs and vanilla extract are now added also and mixed in. Next the flour is slowly folded into the batter along...

How To: Make traditional Mexican salsa

Salsa is always a great appetizing treat to serve with chips or in a salad. This recipe for traditional Mexican salsa will provide the kick for your kickback. So kickback and learn how to make traditional Mexican salsa that will make your guests hot!

How To: Fix a wet iPod or iPhone

Have you ever dropped your iPhone or iPod in water? Learn how to fix it here. Water can be very damaging to electronics because of its conductivity. You can avoid short circuiting your device by following the directions in this tutorial. Discover why water can hurt your electronics and how to dry out a wet device from the inside out. Find out how to open the device and access the logic board. With materials as simple as a hair dryer and guitar pick, your device can be as good as new!