Turn up the heat, and learn how to make hot summer sausage sure to spice up any meal! Hot summer sausage is nothing without peppers. You'll need Red Serrano peppers for color and Habaneras for the heat! Deseed and dice the Red Serrano peppers and finely mince the habaneras in a food processor. Add these freshly chopped and minced peppers to your meat and spice mix. After combining these ingredients well, put the sausage mixture into the hopper and dispense the mixture into the sausage casing....
Profisher has a rather unique method of ridding your kitchen of fruit flies. Make sure you start this after you have cleared your countertops of all food. Place any kind of juicy fruit on foil on the open rack of your oven. Leave open overnight. In the morning, close the oven door, set the temperature to 400 degrees and flies will be no more! This can, additionally, be performed in the microwave oven. Set plate of fresh fruit in the open microwave for about an hour. Close the door and set tim...
Halloween is by far the most fun holiday we have all year. When else can you dress up in crazy costumes, run around the neighborhood and be given candy for it? The key to a great Halloween costume is to make it as scary as possible, and nothing is scarier than bloody flesh wounds. This tutorial will show you how to make these scary lacerations with nothing more than things you probably already have in your kitchen and bathroom. Follow this step by step and you will be winning costume contest ...
This is a very interesting instructional video on how to make an onion relish. This is a very good food. Take white or red onion. Now peel off the outer layers of the onion. Now cut the onion into small pieces. You can cut the onion with a straight knife to get uniform sized pieces. Now put them into the boiling water in a pan. Now you have to filter the water. Now you can add salt, vinegar and sugar. You can keep this in the fridge for a few hours. Then you can add a few raw leaves and now t...
In this video Chef Jason Hill of Cooking Sessions shares his southwest sauce recipe which is used on burgers, sandwiches, salads and dips. For the southwest sauce you will require 1/4 cup of cilantro leaves, 1/2 a tomato, 1/4 onion, 1 Serrano pepper, 1/2 a teaspoon of cumin, 1/2 a teaspoon of kosher salt, 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper, a cup of mayonnaise, a cup of sour cream and a clove of garlic. Add the ingredients into a food processor and grind it to a puree as shown. After that add the...
Use snow tires in the winter. Special patterns in the tread encourage the tires to grip the road better than regular tires. Snow tires are especially helpful if your car has rear wheel drive to discourage fish tailing.
Chef John from Food Wishes shows you how to make white chili. Take a couple pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs and cut into half inch pieces. Place them in the pot with vegetable oil on high heat and cook for about 5 minutes. Get other ingredients together: 1 diced onion, garlic, cumin, cinnamon, chipotle pepper, cayenne pepper, pepper, salt and oregano. As soon as chicken juice gets syrupy, add onions and spices. Add a quart of chicken stock. Let simmer. Take peppers (red, green, & j...
Sauté the tomato, garlic and onion in a little oil. Add in the pork and cook until brown. Season with a little bit of salt and pepper.
Making a curry chicken fried rice couldn't be better explained than in this video. This chef makes it look so easy to create this plate, he explains step by step the process of making this recipe, steps include from cutting vegetables to cutting the chicken in small chunks and putting everything together at the end, what a magnificent recipe this is. If you are looking to make this fabulous Chinese recipe this is the video that you cannot pass on. Great Chinese food!
In this video, we learn from Food Network mixologist Miguel Aranda how to put a delicious spin on two classic juice drinks. Not quite as simple as Apple Cider Lemonade sounds, Miguel takes us through each ingredient (the expected, the cider and lemonade, but also lots of nice touches, like star fruit for an extra zing, and fresh ginger and tea to round out the flavor). Miguel takes us through the thought process, and explains to us the intricate taste. This video will have you all set for you...
Take some peeled and cleaned mushrooms and put them in a bowl. Coat them really well with some extra virgin olive oil. Mushrooms are very porous and they soak up a lot of what you put on them so you have to make sure that you use enough olive oil to be sure that they are well coated. Then gently use your hands to toss them in the bowl. Next coat them with some Tamari Soy Sauce and gently toss them in the bowl with your hands one more time. Before you eat them let them sit for up to 24 hours. ...
Gourmet Magazine's food editor Lillian Chou introduces cooking enthusiasts to a little-known method to peeling a ginger. She addresses the problem of cooks taking too much of the ginger off with the skin when peeling with a knife. To reduce this wasteful practice and get dependable results every time, she encourages the use of a spoon! This simple tool can take the skin (and only the skin!) off ginger without any hassle. It also is apparently very good at getting the hard-to-peel spots on gin...
The chef's name appears and music plays and a woman's voice tells the ingredients for fried tempura ice cream. A woman appears and mixes tempura batter in a bowl with ice water. She tells you how to form ice cream balls and wrap them to place in the freezer for an hour. She them returns to show you how to wrap the ice cream with angel food cake after which you dip in batter and fry. Finally serving it on a garnished plate. Watching this video will help you successfully make and serve fried ic...
Whip up this tasty treat in no time flat with this video cooking tutorial of how to make burger buns with raw ingredients. Watch as she places the ingredients into the food processor, blends them up with a few herbs and spices and forms them into tasty buns for you and friends to enjoy. Top them with your favorite toppings and enjoy without any baking needed! You can even spice it up with your own flavors to add a new dimension to an already delicious treat.
In this video , making of a Pakistani recipe called Kebab masala is demonstrated. In this first the kebabs are made and then they are sautéed with a thick gravy. The kebabs are made out of minced meat, onion, ginger garlic paste and some spices. All these ingredients are blended together to form a paste. Then out of this paste sausages like rolls are made out and then shallow fried in a pan with some oil. The gravy is prepared with onions and tomatoes and of course some spices. Once the gravy...
Learn exercises and information to help underweight people gain weight. Jack Lalanne cites poor nutrition and lack of exercise as the reason for being underweight. He recommends the correct balance of vitamins and minerals to help combat the poor nutrition that leads to a low body weight. He also recommends whole grains and many other natural foods to correct a personal weight problem. Lalanne believes that exercise is a normalizer that helps correct weight for both the underweight and overwe...
This is a very interesting instructional video on how to make a popular Korean food called Zucchini Fritters. The main ingredients required are 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 egg, 1 zucchini, half an onion, 1 red hot pepper and half a teaspoon salt. Cut the zucchini into small pieces and chop the onion very finely. Slice red pepper. Now combine flour with salt, water and egg and mix them well. Add vegetables into the batter. Take a slightly oiled pan. Pour one spoon of batter and spread it to ma...
Kirkwood Community College's Chef David shows you how to sharpen knives in this episode of gazetteonline presented by Gazette Food Editor Anne Kapler. Chef David takes you through the process of sharpening a knife using a whet stone highlighting common misconceptions associated with knife sharpening. He also speaks about the options available to lubricate a whet stone. The sharpening process is explained in great detail including the stance, angle of sharpening, application of pressure, using...
This video is a tutorial on how to do a bias-cut on a carrot. It is called the bias-cut because the cut keeps the same size on each piece of the carrot. A carrot is one of the most difficult foods to cut because it's shape is not uniform. You need to slice down at an angle for this reason. Your knife motion should not be choppy, but more wave-like. The bias-cut is important because it guarantees that the carrot slices will cook evenly.
This how-to video is about how to simulate your own space vacation.
Ingredients needed to make an Oreo cheesecake are a package of Oreo, packages of Cream cheese, a cup of sugar, a cup of sour cream, eggs, teaspoon of vanilla and Oreo pie crust. The procedure for making an Oreo cheesecake is as follows. Firstly, mix the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla into a large bowl using a food mixer. Then crush in 30 Oreo cookies. Here you can use more if you want to but this is how many we used. Then bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 325 degrees F. They should be done ...
This video shows how to cook Lumpiang Shanghai the panlasangpinoy way.
This video shows the viewer how to create a stylish centerpiece for a wedding reception using commonly available items. This is done by first placing a square mirror on top of a larger piece of light pink tulle. Then an artificial plant was selected and a number of glass beads were secured around the piece using another piece of tulle and a ribbon; this is to stop the plant floating. The plant is then placed in a tall square vase that is filled with water. A single drop of food dye is then ad...
This video shows the viewer how to correctly water Phalaenopsis orchids. According to the video these are the type of orchids that most people have in their homes. The instructions are to water your orchid with Luke-warm water once every 7-10 days, or as often as is needed. The creator, Dave Epstein, also suggests adding 1/4 strength plant food to the water. He also recommends checking the medium that the orchid is planted in to judge whether watering is necessary. For more information on how...
Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, shows how to make Thai Cabbage Salad, a non-cooking sweet sour tangy fresh cabbage salad mix.
Chef Michael Smith on Food Network Canada tells you how to avoid serving up a solid mass of pasta with sauce sticking to it.
In a pan being heated over medium heat add one tablespoon of vegetable or peanut oil. Add one teaspoon of chili paste and two minced garlic cloves. Add one quart of chicken broth and two tablespoons of fish sauce. Next add two tablespoons of tamarind, two small tomatoes chopped up into chunks, one tablespoon of sugar, and two tablespoons of lime juice. Bring the soup back up to simmer and let it boil for about five minutes. Add about one half pound of chicken cut up. Let the mixture boil for ...
Have you ever had a knife that was just too dull to cut anything? Well, you don't need a sharpener; simply grab a common household coffee mug to do the trick. Slide the blade along the bottom of the mug at a thirty degree angle to sharpen your blade. Not too roughly, just scraping it. This should sharpen that once dull blade, and you will be able to cut your food much easier in the kitchen. Don't have a sharpener? Then the coffee mug is your answer!
Make a fabulous honey mustard sauce or dip with this video tutorial. Put one third of a cup of mayo into a bowl. Add yellow mustard and Dijon mustard into the bowl. Next add a little hot sauce. After adding the hot sauce you will add honey and one table spoon of rice vinegar. Use a whisk and mix it all together in the bowl. You can adjust the amount of mustard, hot sauce, rice vinegar, and honey to suit your taste. Once it is mixed together it is ready. All you need now is your favorite dippi...
Do you find your tool shed to be a little disorganized? Do you find yourself frustrated over is at least once a week? Ron Hazleton is here to help you, getting your screws, bolts, nails, fasteners, hardward (and more) neat and tidy using plastic food containers for storage.
In this video by Dogmantics, dog trainer Emily Larlham goes over how to make an interactive dog toy for your pooch to play with just a plastic container, a pair of scissors, and some dog food.
Death by stingray is extremely rare, but getting hit with their barb still hurts like hell – which is why you need to learn how to play footsie safely with these sea creatures.
This crafty cat scratch pad is a great way to recycle used boxes. You Will Need
Know which Indian entrees are low-calorie and which are diet busters. Step 1: Forget the fried stuff
Beer adds a nice yeasty flavor to this batter, which can also be used for fish and chips or any other fried seafood.
Fancy feet are a must for sandals and peep-toe shoes. Pamper yourself with a pedicure that’s easy and gets you back on your feet in no time.
Sushi is one of the fastest-growing cuisines across the globe. To become a true citizen of the world, prepare yourself with this primer on sushi-eating rituals. Watch this how to video to learn how to properly eat sushi.
Getting the minimum five daily servings of fruits and vegetables is not as daunting as you might think. This Howcast video guide offers several tips on getting more fruits and vegetables into your diet.
Quit hogging your own backyard. Make it a haven for your fine feathered friends. Learn how to attract birds to your yard.
Learn some basic cooking skills with CHOW. This video tutorial will show you how to poach an egg and rewarm it.
