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.
Food is a huge part of Minecraft, specifically the delicious melons and pumpkins that are growable in the game. Take a look at this video guide to learn how to maximize your melon and pumpkin farming techniques in Minecraft 1.8.
Trim down your water bill and do the planet a favor by adjusting the water height in your toilet tank. The Fluidmaster's float cup on the fill valve can easily be adjusted to set water height in the cistern, just by fine-tuning the water level adjustment clip. This process is very similar for regular fill valves, too, with float balls instead of float cups. All you need to do is hit the sweet spot—the lowest water height needed to properly flush the toilet.
Farming in Minecraft isn't the most exciting part of the game, but it's essential for making the high-level food items like cake so you'd better get used to it. This video will walk you through all aspects of Minecraft farming, including getting seeds, using your hoe to til the soil, planting the crops, and then using bonemeal to make them grow fast.
Watercress is an extremely healthy plant when consumed, however it can also be deadly if you select the wrong plant! How exciting. This video will teach you how to recognize the good and bad kinds of Watercress in the wild and use them as an effective wilderness food source.
Fishing is a great way to acquire meat in a survival situation, but bringing fishing gear in a survival gear kit is very space-consuming. This video will teach you how to make a complete mini fishing kit for packing in your survival bag that contains everything you need for small-scale fishing and could give you the food you need to survive.
Bento Boxes might be the most esthetically pleasing and efficient means of lunch storage on Earth. Part of this is the awesomely shaped food within, originally shaped to fit into the bento boxes but now done with creativity and flair. This video will show you how to cut a hot dog into an octopus or a squid that will fit into a bento box, ensuring extra enjoyment for whoever will be eating your bento.
On a diet now that the holiday season is over and you've found that the bodycon frock you wore to the season's first party is not a wee bit hard to zip up? Then dont' despair - you can still have delicious, mouthwatering desserts. Only now you'll have to portion size.
If your family veers on the smaller side (so we're talking more the Gilmores than than the Duggars) then a 20 pound Thanksgiving turkey is probably a bit too much food for you to handle. Luckily, there are alternative ways to serve turkey without needing to pull out a big bird.
In this tutorial, we learn how to cook soul food style string beans. First, drain all the water out of the can of green beans. Then, leave half the liquid in another can of green beans. Put them all into a pan, then add 2 tbsp olive oil along with salt, pepper, garlic powder, seasoned salt, onion powder, and soy sauce. Then, add in 2 tbsp of butter to the string beans. Add as much or as little of the seasoning to the beans as you'd like and just let it heat up. When finished and hot, serve an...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make blue silly putty. To make this, you will just need borax, glue, and food coloring. First, pour a cup of water in a bowl with a couple tablespoons of glue and some borax. When it's all poured in the bowl, mix it together. After this, add in the food coloring until you have the color that you want. Mix the putty together until well combined and then play with it! You can store it in a plastic container to play with later and use for whatever type of craft ...
If you recently unearthed your silver from storage hoping to use the pieces to set your holiday table, you may have been a bit disappointed at how tarnished all those spoons and forks look.
Around the holidays we use pretty lights and candles for everything: We hang shiny white lights on our Christmas tree, dangle them outside along our windowsill, and add candles to floral centerpieces.
Now that Halloween is over, we're getting closer than ever to the holiday season, which includings a lightning-fast sequence of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. This means you have to be prepared for cooking comfort food for big crowds.
In this video, we learn how to create a "purple smoke" fashion makeup look. start out by applying foundation to the face, then apply purple liner around the lips and fill them in half way to the middle. Then, smear the color into the middle and apply purple shadow over the lips. From here, apply black eyeliner to the tops of the eye, then apply black shadow underneath the brown on the crease of the eye, then rub on a silver shadow around the entire lid. Use liquid liner to draw on lashes on t...
In this tutorial, we learn how to remove acrylic and gel nails. First, fill a large dish with warm water, large enough to fit a small glass bowl inside. After this, fill the small glass dish with pure acetone. From here, place the bowl inside the large dish and then add in several cotton balls to this. From here, you will place the cotton balls on your nails and then cover them with foil wrappers. Leave these on your nails for around 1 hour and then check on them to see if the acrylic nail is...
Scalloped potatoes are a comfort food dish enjoyed by many families during Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, but that time period tends to be the only time period in which this dish gets any play. That's because, delicious as they are, scalloped potatoes take an awful lot of work and time to prepare, and no one wants to slave away at the oven for hours.
Grilling a perfect steak is not as hard as you think...when you have a few tips, of course. Check out this food video to learn how to grill a thick, tender slap of striploin steak seasoned with salt, pepper, and herbs.
Got almost no time to make a fancy breakfast in the morning? Then consider omelettes to be your new BFF. They're super easy to make and if you don't like the basic version (just eggs plus a pinch of salt and pepper) you can always toss in chopped up veggies like onions, carrots, and mushrooms.
In this tutorial, we learn how to easily make butter. All you need is a food processor or jug and some heavy cream. To do this with the processor, you will pour the cream into the food processor and continue keeping this going until you see chunks of butter start to appear. After this, you will drain the butter from the milk and then add salt to make it taste better. If you do this in a jug, you will add the cream into the jug and just shake it continuously until it's turned into butter. Stra...
In this tutorial, we learn how to change the oil in your 2002-07 Jeep Liberty 3.7L. First, go underneath your Jeep and remove the oil plug from the tank. Once you do this, let the oil drain out into an oil pan or plastic container. While this is draining, go to the hood of your car and find where the oil filter is. Once you find this, take out the old one and replace it with the new filter. When the oil is done draining, place the drain plug back on and then fill in the new oil to your Jeep i...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make raw macadamia nut butter. First, you will need to take some raw macadamia nuts and a food processor. Pour the macadamia nuts into the food processor. Then, let this spin for around five minutes or until the butter has started to form. There should be no chunks left in the mixture, the oils should come out and help the mixture blend. After this is finished, scoop the butter out and you will taste an amazing raw macadamia nut butter. This will also work fo...
In this tutorial, we learn how to find the volume of a pyramid. The equation to figure out how to find the volume of a pyramid is 1/3ab x h. When you begin, find the height, length, and square feet of the pyramid, then fill these into the appropriate spots in the equation. Once you find this, you will be able to find the correct number of the volume of the pyramid. After this, make sure you have the correct labels on the answer that you get from the equation you filled out. When finished, you...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make models and ornaments with salt dough. First, grab a baking sheet and place aluminum foil over it. Now, grab some gloss sealer, salt, food coloring, flour, ribbon, glitter, cookie cutters, and buttons. To make the dough, combine flour with water and salt. Mix this together until you get a dough shape, then roll out and cut into shapes with cookie cutters. Cut a small hole in the top of it, then bake until golden brown in the oven. Tie a string in the hole...
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Spiderman. First, draw the outline of Spiderman's body while hanging from a web up in the air. Then, use a darker line to draw over the original sketch of the body. Start to fill in details of the entire body and the face of the character. Next, fill in the small details of Spiderman. Draw the details down to what the bottom of the shoes on his suit look like. Make sure the face has all the right details, then add in lines to the web to make it look more...
In this tutorial, we learn how to use fill flash to get blue skies. If you take a picture of someone in front of a blue sky, they will most likely have shadows on their face, making the sky look good and them look bad. If you change your flash, the sky will look pure white and the person will look good. To change this, put a flash onto the camera, then use the exposure compensation to -1. Then, adjust your flash exposure to 2 2/3 and take the picture of the subject again. Now, you will have a...
What beats succulent pork chops served up with a can of beer on Football Sunday? Pork chops marinated WITH beer! Sounds weird but we promise the result is delicious.
Martha Stewart famously won't put any foods in her mouth unless they're fresh from her own garden, and most other dedicated cooks and foodies probably feel the same way. Fresh always tastes better, hands down. So if you're lucky enough to have a small garden attached to your house and are growing corn, check out this food video to learn how to harvest your hard work.
Seriously, what's not to love about a banana cream pie? Naturallly creamy, sweet bananas, crispy pie crust, and mountains of whipped cream make this comfort food dessert one of our all-time favorites.
First thing you need to do this is to select rectangle tool and make a shape and select the gradient fill and change the angle of gradient to 90 degree. Now color and resize it as showing in the video. Now type your navigation texts like blog, contact, gallery etc. Now size your text for your rectangle shape. Now set the texts in the bar and resize your bar.
The Amazing Spider-Man is off to find the next fragment. His trail has lead him to an old mining town filled with sand, sounds like the result is going to be obvious, right? Spidey finds the fragment, but Sandman has already gotten control of it and old Flint is looking to make Spideys life miserable, not to mention his suit is gonna be filled with sand by the end of this one. In this video you will get a complete walkthrough of chapter 5 along with the final boss fight.
What does brie NOT taste good with? We've had the runny, rich cheese on French baguettes with ham, we've used it to dip our fruit into, and we've eaten it as is because, simply enough, the cheese even makes air taste good.
Orange plum tomatoes are sweeter than your average red tomato, which make them a sweet treat to put into salsa. Summer's coming to an end soon so celebrate the last waning days of warm weather and ripe, succulent food by making this pluout, or plum tomato, salsa with Me Gusta.
During Halloween, party planning can get really hectic. Between baking and cooking party food to picking up plates and utensils at the store to putting up black and orange streamers, there's more than enough stuff to do to give you a panic attack.
In this video, we learn how to lower cholesterol naturally. If you want to accomplish the task of lowering your cholesterol without the use of drugs, it can be done! First, you need to make sure you are eating a diet that has healthy carbohydrates and starches, legumes and beans are both great for this. Also, make sure you avoid foods that have a lot of saturated fat or trans fats, because these will raise cholesterol substantially. Fruits, oats, soy foods, and vegetables will also help lower...
You don't have to be a professional pastry chef to come up with sweet and chocolatey creations that all you friends will love! Check out this food video to learn how to make ice cream lollipops dipped in chocolate. You can then coat the chocolate with sprinkles, nuts, or whatever topping you'd like.
What's the next best thing to visiting Italy? Sampling its authentic food, of course! While you may not be able to pick up a pizza near the Colisseum in Rome, you can whip up your own Italian creation at home.
When it comes to making food for special occasions, traditional American foods like bbq pork, hot dogs, and apple pies get old fast. While they're super tasty, it's refreshing to switch up your foodstuff line up every now and then. For a dessert that's delicious and very pretty, check out this lovely Lebanese knafeh na'ama dessert, a pie-like concoction made with very fine dough. Check out the video for the recipe!
During Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calender in which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, food is still consumed, but always after dark or before the sun comes up. A very popular treat in Morocco during this time of refraining from food is the Chebakia, a sweet cookie that is fried and then dipped in a hone syrup.
In this tutorial, we learn how to mix Oobleck. First, place some cornstarch into a large plastic bowl, then add in some water. After this, mix the ingredients together with a straw until you have a paste that forms from both of them. Don't add too much water, you want this to be more thick than creamy. Now that you have made this, add in food coloring of your choice to make this more fun, just make sure you don't get it on your clothing. After you have mixed the food coloring in with it, you ...
