When vending machines are your only midday eating option at work, how on earth do you manage to keep up a regimen of eating healthy? The answer is to watch this video, then choose your snack with a guilt-free grin!
Pruning tomatoes is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do to increase fruit size and help lessen the chances of disease. The basic method of pruning is to remove the suckers from the leaf axils of the tomato plant. If you remove the suckers you will have larger, sweeter, and healthier tomatoes. If you leave them you will get more tomatoes, but the plant is more susceptible to disease and other health issues. This how to video gives you pruning tips and tricks so you can hav...
Grilled or breaded? When asked this question at most fast food joints or restaurants most of us would answer "breaded" because of the oil-soaked, fluffy goodness, but in truth grilled chicken is a LOT healthier for you.
The yogis of the internet have started a wonderful food trend that has everyone wanting to eat healthy—gorgeous buddha bowls. Okay, so maybe not everyone, but a lot of people are definitely entranced by these beautiful, multicolored meals.
It's no secret that cauliflower is good for you—but not nearly enough people know that the best part about cauliflower is its insane versatility. Because its cooked flavor is so mild, it can be incorporated into a crazy amount of dishes and preparations.
Boxed brownie mixes advertise their convenience compared to homemade brownies—with only a few ingredients, they promise a moist, chocolatey crumb. However, these "instant" mixes still require fresh ingredients and a baking time that matches that of homemade brownies. When you're craving a chocolate fix but you're coming up short on eggs, oil, and time, don't despair: you can still make brownies using a can of soda. Two Different Methods, One Soda Required
You can make a pretty strong case for pancakes being the ultimate breakfast food. They taste like a treat for a special occasion, yet they're not bad for you (presuming you don't share my whipped cream and maple syrup habits). They can be customized and accessorized, and they cook up in just a few minutes.
Okay, so you've read our guide on how to make the perfect poached egg. Maybe you've also read our tutorials on making great hard-boiled eggs and even scrambled hard-boiled eggs. Now comes the question: what's next?
Don't you just love snack food? Me too! but as I get older I notice how the small food choices I make affect my belly. So how do we get over this potato chip world? Easy make your own chips. This recipe with Zucchini is not only a healthier option but also delicious.
Who doesn't enjoy sitting down to a nice dinner with a cocktail in hand? After a long day, a drink is a great way to unwind. Yet your favorite spirits can do more than just help you relax after work. By utilizing alcohol in the kitchen, you can enhance everything from how food tastes to your health.
If you're like me, you are a non-stop, sweating, never-give-up workout fiend. Okay, not really, but like a significant amount of people, I would love to live a healthier lifestyle. The Misfit Shine makes fitness a lot easier.
We've already taught you a few tricks for getting chilled, rock-hard butter to spread easily on toast, and some of you probably bypass that issue entirely by purchasing spreadable butter from the supermarket. But why waste your money when you can make a healthier, tastier version at home for a fraction of the cost?
This video shows two different ways to make a meatloaf. The lazy cook shows a quick easy way and the crazy cook shows a more difficult work intensive way to prepare meatloaf. It takes about a minute for the lazy cook to combine her ingredients in the pan she will cook the meatloaf in all together. She uses frozen vegetables and canned mushrooms to make things easier. The crazy cook chops all the ingredients and prepares her meatloaf in a much longer time. When you watch this video you will le...
Learn how to measure cooking ingredients. Some home cooks approach cooking as an art form, a splash of this, a dash of that, and soon each culinary creation is deliciously unique. Bakers are more likely to appreciate the scientific side of cooking, relying on the careful measuring of ingredients to ensure consistent results every time they prepare a recipe. To measure cooking ingredients, you'll need a glass measuring cup for liquids, and a dry measure for powders.
Fish always taste better when its is fresh. One important part of being a great cook is knowing how to clean, fillet, and cook fresh fish. This cooking how-to video shows you how to catch, fillet and cook snappers. Cook up great snapper recipes.
Find out how to make bacon wrapped mashed potatoes and scallops in this free seafood recipe video series from our professional chef.
How to make a meat lasagna; get expert tips and instruction for making traditional Italian food recipes in this free cooking video series.
Cooking cauliflower with potatoes is easy and delicious. Learn how Indian spices and vegetables can make a great recipe!
Coq Au Vin is a traditional French dish originally made with rooster and wine. Our expert shows you how to make this unique recipe with chicken in this free cooking video series.
Learn recipes for steam cooking with tips and techniques for steaming vegetables, fish, chicken and more in this free how-to video series on steam cooking basics.
Interested in making Greek food but you don't know how? Start with Greek fish plaki! This free online cooking lesson about Greek food taught by an expert chef will have you on your way in no time.
Spice things up in the kitchen with traditional Indian food! Learn how to make a delicious Pilau rice recipe, including ingredients and cooking tips, in this free online cooking video on Indian food taught by expert chef Allen Diwan.
Ingredients you'll need to make a traditional Turkish pasta, including noodles, cheese and other seasonings; learn this and more in this free online cooking video about ethnic and Turkish food taught by an expert chef.
How to make homemade fettuccine alfredo pasta and sauce; learn more about making traditional Italian food in this free cooking video series.
Simon Leach shows us how to cook a paella in this series of videos Part 1 of 6 - How to Cook a paella.
Learn how to cook using solar ovens. See how to cook eggs, peach cobbler cake, rice and dishes the solarcookingnut makes on a typical day.
In this series of video clips expert Louis Ortiz shows you the basics of cooking fish. He offers three easy fish recipes, demonstrating how to prepare and cook Seared Salmon fillets, how to fry farm-raised catfish, and how to make fish stock.
How to cook and eat a Maine lobster. Here's how to cook Maine Lobster and a frozen rock lobster tail. These are very different cooking methods. Maine Lobster is cooked alive.
So many cooking shows focus on how to perfect food - preparation, cooking, and presentation. But often, so much attention and focus goes into the food itself that the utensils which produce the food, like pans, spatulas, and thermometors, get almost no attention at all.
This video teaches individuals how to cook classic grilled chicken using a BBQ pit. The first step is to begin mixing one cup of vegetable oil and two cups of vinegar. The next step is to add your favorite chicken rub and mix it all together with a pinch of pepper. The instructor marinates his chicken for four hours before cooking. The next step is to put the marinated chicken into the BBQ pit grill to begin cooking. The instructor notes it only takes about 10min to seer both sides of the chi...
Chef Gordon Ramsay will show you how to make a really terrific steak with out all the guess work. He will help you take your steak cooking skills from amateur to professional grade steak, or at least help improve your result with some professional tips.
Ingredients for Hiyashi Chuka (serves 2)
Simon King, one of the Hairy Bikers falls off the dock in Vietnam during filming leaving Dave Myers alone to cook a delicious crispy beef recipe. Great idea for dinner from BBC cooking show 'Hairy Bikers Cook Book'.
Cooking perfect pasta isn't hard. Then again, cooking mushy or crunchy noodles is dangerously easy. Watch this how-to video from Howcast to learn how to cook pasta al dente.
This tutorial cooking video will teach you to make Oyakodon, also known as a Japanese chicken and egg rice bowl.
For so many of us, bakeware is bakeware. As long as it's oven safe and able to tolerate the high heat, it's fine to bake in, right? Wrong!
I recently had a small gathering of friends over for a quick cookout consisting of mostly burgers on the grill. One of my friends informed me beforehand that she didn't eat red meat, but that she would be perfectly okay with eating a turkey burger.
Oatmeal isn't the most glamorous breakfast, but it's definitely one of the best. It's healthy, filling, delicious, and easy to personalize. And, if you have instant packets, oatmeal is also a very quick and easy breakfast.
How many of us actually drink enough water? It's one of the easiest ways to improve your health, but most people don't get nearly as much as they should. We've grown so accustomed to soda, coffee, and sugary juices that water just seems bland by comparison. That's why drinks like VitaminWater are so popular. They're marketed as being just like water, but better tasting and with even more vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and antioxidants. Who wouldn't want all the benefits of drinking water a...
This food tutorial presents one of the most important and widely used cooking skills you'll ever need to know: how to cook eggs over easy. Eggs are pretty much standard for breakfast and are used in a variety of other recipes, so it's important to know how to cook them well.
