How To Make Christmas Artichokes94 year old Clara teaches you how to make bread crumb stuffed artichokes for the holidays. Cut off thorns on the tips of each leaf with scissors. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Cut off the stem on the bottom at the base to prepare the filling, mix bread crumbs, salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Open up the artichoke at the top, and separate each leaf enough for filling to fit in. Use a spoon or your fingers to fill each hole with the bread cr...
Looking to cut your monthly expenses down? Brown-bagging is one of the easiest ways to save money, especially if you stock several key items. In this video, ways to pack a lunch for a dollar a day are gone over.
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make spinach-artichoke dip. Artichokes, spinach, and melted cheese are the perfect appetizer for any get-together. Just make sure you get to enjoy it – this dip will disappear quickly from the party table!
For a Mother's Day meal try this easy-to-make cheese sandwich egg souffle. Our host got her recipe from her grandmother, but now she is passing it on to you. Try cooking up this recipe for cheese sandwich souffle.
Modern milking parlors use machines, but milking a cow by hand is an ancient art. Here’s the "udderly" perfect way to do it.
A crostini is basically thin toast - it's a small slice of plain white bread that's then toasted or grilled until it becomes crispy. Crostinis make easy to prepare and delicious appetizers for holiday cocktail parties.
Turkey is the focal point and A-list star of your Thanksgiving table, so it only makes sense to make the bird as delicious as possible, right? Eschew the tired method of roasting and basting your turkey in the oven for hours on end and try out a new method of cooking it this year: deep frying.
In order to prepare Middle Eastern Vegan Falafel with Tzatziki Sauce, you will need the following ingredients: vegan sour cream, grated cucumber, lemon juice, granulated onion, granulated garlic, 2 15-oz cans of garbanzo beans, lemon juice, chopped parsley, oil, cayenne pepper, cumin, baking powder, roasted garlic, flour, oil, and salt.
Have you just moved into a new place and don't have a toaster yet? No problem! No need to abandon that breakfast staple. In this tutorial, Jenny Jones shows you how to make toast without a toaster! All you need is your bread, your stove, a coat hanger and two aluminum cans. This is perfect for camping, too! In Jenny's own words, "If you can make toast without a toaster, think what else you can do in life that seemed impossible!"
Nick from Greyscale Gorilla shows you how to do one of the bread and butter effects in Adobe's After Effects: keyframing. He shows you a simple animation of a boxcar going around a race track.
In this tutorial from Food Wishes, Chef John brings us a great recipe for Clams Casino... A classic appetizer for those special holiday parties, or any other time you want to impress your guests. Ingredients include: neck clams, bacon, butter, red pepper, two cloves of finely minced garlic, bread crumbs, a pinch of salt, a couple drops of Worcester sauce and finely grated parmesan cheese. Bon Appetite!
Hummus is delicious as a dip for vegetables or pita bread, or even on top of chicken. It tastes great, is healthy, and easy to make. You will need garbanzo beans or chickpeas, tahini sesame seed paste, mint leaves, lemon juice, salt, and garlic. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make the classic Mediterranean hummus.
Potbellies don't have to happen as we age, according to two studies done on twins published online in the International Journal of Obesity.
If you're a fan of Thai food, I'm sure you're familiar with sticky rice. There is something so special about its chewy texture and sweet flavor. If you have a desire to make it in your own kitchen but don't have the proper tools such as a traditional bamboo basket or stackable steamer, there are several other methods that work just as well. Once you try these alternative methods, I'm sure you'll be "sticking" to them for a while. What Makes Sticky Rice So Sticky?
We've told you how a rice cooker can work as a DIY sous vide machine and make amazing risotto the lazy way, but did you know that it can also make pancakes, bread, mashed potatoes, and poached fruit?
Most people have a few different knives in their kitchen drawers, but not everyone knows which one does what. Sometimes it seems easier to just grab whatever's clean, but choosing the right knife for what you're trying to do can actually make a pretty big difference.
Cooking may be an art, but baking is a science. It requires precise measurements since the outcome is based on chemical reactions. Using too much or too little of one ingredient can be the difference between perfect, crunchy-yet-chewy cookies and the dreaded "one big cookie." That's why frozen cookie dough and pre-made bread and cake mixes are so popular. They're easy to throw together, and pretty much guarantee success every time. But what if you're feeling so lazy that you don't even want t...
Watch as this how-to video as we show you how to mix, knead, shape, and bake Portuguese sweet bread. Our baker host also shows you how to score and fill this delicious bread with a fruity delight.
Forget the store bought loafs of bread. Watch this how to video and learn how to mix up a great dough recipe for making bread from scratch. Visit www.pineapple-tarts.blogspot.com for the full recipe.
Saj bread is a flat round bread baked on an upside down iron wok hot surface. It is baked on a domed or convex metal griddle, known as saj. This is an easy recipe to make it.
Egg McMuffins are the bread and butter of the McDonald's breakfast menu. They're simple yet so satisfying: Just a flaky bun, oily beef, and cheese. But what if you're vegan and still crave the delicious breakfast sandwich?
This video explains how to make authentic French toast when entertaining guests. The recipe requires some preparation to be performed the night before the guests arrive, as well as some baking the morning of the event. This recipe really captures the essence of French toast by using nutmeg, cinnamon, freshly baked French bread, milk and eggs. While ideally designed for entertaining guests, this recipe can also be modified to feed a family for breakfast. In the video, the recipe feeds about 12...
Cut chicken into 1 - 1.5 inches chunks, strips or thin slices, depending on which you and your family prefers. Thin slices are fastest. It's easier to cut chicken into cubes chunks when it's partially frozen.
Betty describes how to make spicy flour tortilla crisps: little crispy rounds, or squares, make a great appetizer. Use them with various spreads! Or serve them as the bread to start off a steak dinner. Start with your flour tortillas. After cutting them into sectors, baste them in extra virgin olive oil. Apply the oil to the top and bottom sides. Sprinkle a bit of salt. Use paprika (or any flavor you want!) to add a little spice! Sprinkle from high above so that your spices don't clump. Now p...
Getting splinters is no fun, but making them can be if you've got the right tools and the proper technique.
Hand planes are the epitome of fine woodworking. Extreme woodworkers use them, and serious collectors collect them. Planes come in a wide variety of sizes, styles and designs for specific woodworking purposes. Planes are available made entirely of metal, or made of wood with metal blades and parts. In fact, you can buy the blades and make your own planes, as the old-timers often did. Planes can range in price from about $25 for new, economical models to planes that cost several hundred dollar...
Watch this how to video as Manjula shows you how to cook gobi paratha. This is an Indian whole wheat bread stuffed with spicy cauliflower. Serve gobi paratha for breakfast or a light lunch.
Prepare this easy vegan meal that serves six. The quinoa and black beans takes 15 minutes to prep and 35 minutes to cook.
A variation on the Rice Krispie treat, make some cookies using Cap'n Crunch cereal! Start with a box of powdered Cap'n Crunch and bread flour, and then add baking powder, baking soda, butter, white sugar, brown sugar and some eggs.
Veggies don't have to be boring, and you should never feel like you're forcing yourself to eat them. Just check out this recipe for baked tomatoes topped with delicious melted blue cheese to see just how satisfying an all vegetarian meal can be.
In this tutorial, learn how to make a yogurt spread that is popular in the Middle East and Mediterranean called Labneh. Labneh is cheap and easy to make and is similar to cream cheese. You can spread this strained yogurt on lots of things such as pita or bread for a little extra taste. Follow along and get started with your Mediterranean dip with Dede.
In this clip, learn how to make the Lebanese specialty Kibbeh Nayeh. Kibbeh Nayeh, or Lebanese steak tartare is essentially raw steak that is served with pita bread, olive oil and fresh veggies. This dish is seasoned to perfection and as scary as raw meat sounds - you will absolutely love it. This meat dip is 100% safe and delicious, so give it a try!
In this video, learn how to prepare traditional Mediterranean hummus dip that you can serve for any occasion. This fresh hummus is good for you and low fat and makes a perfect snack, appetizer or treat for a party. You can serve you hummus with pita bread, chips, veggies or anything else that needs a little extra flavor. Follow along with Dede and prepare perfect hummus.
Learn how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich with this how-to video. Bread, cheese and butter is all you will need to make this delicious grilled cheese sandwich. Enjoy!
Confession: I love bagels. I love to make them, but above all, I love to eat them. In college I ran a mini-bagel business from my kitchen, and on bagel-making day, it wasn't uncommon for me to eat the circular goodies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Yet even with my obsession I can't always eat bagels fast enough to keep them from going stale. That's why I started learning ways to use bagels even when they're a day or three past their prime. As it turns out, there are a million and one thin...
What I'm going to do in this tutorial is, as the title implies, teach you how to make nearly anything look like metal. This can especially come in handy in Steampunk, as most of us don't have the ability to machine brass. We do, however, have access to wood, PVC, and spray paint. Not to mention that, as a costumer, I can speak from personal experience when I say that things made of brass are really, really, really heavy!
Did you know that people who live in the Mediterranean - including Greece - are reputed to have the longest life spans of anyone on earth? Is genetics involved? Probably. But we're thinking it also has something to do with their diet, which is composed mostly of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and fish.
In this tutorial, we learn tips on how to avoid skin irritation while shaving. For women, this is a necessary thing they must do everyday, but irritation occurs often. First, shave only in the shower. In the beginning, use a cleanser on the area you are going to shave. During the course of the shower, your skin will soften. Now, take shaving cream and rub it onto your leg. Now, take a regular razor and have with the grain, then against it until your legs are smooth. When finished shaving, dry...
Whether you're new to Adobe Photoshop or a seasoned digital photographer after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be well served by this official video tutorial from the folks at Adobe TV. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the fu...
In this video our author, Candy Cumming with Sharp Healthcare describes how to add fiber into our diet. Fiber is really good for us because is is high in water content and low in calories, which lets us eat much of it before we are full. It also is really good for our regularity in our digestive tract.
