How To: Make tacos
Don’t wait for Cinco de Mayo to enjoy a Mexican meal – tacos are a tasty addition to any table any time.
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How To: Use a coffee filter for more than making coffee
Learn how to use a coffee filter for more than making coffee. Discover the versatility of coffee filters by learning all the things they can do besides straining your java.
How To: Organize your kitchen
Learn how to organize your kitchen. You might cook more if your kitchen weren’t so cluttered. Okay, maybe not. But, still—wouldn’t it be nice to have an organized cooking space?
How To: Use rosemary and thyme like a chef
Check out this video cooking tip from The Chef's Toolbox in Australia. Watch this tutorial to learn how to use rosemary and thyme like a chef. Using the fresh herbs rosemary and thyme in recipes is easy with a little know-how, see how to do it right here.
How To: Stiffen water with flour and salt
See what happens when you mix a few cooking ingredients into water! This video tutorial will show you the trick to stiffen water with flour and salt. It's a pretty simple trick, and you don't need to be a science genius to do it. Just mix a little salt and flour together, then dump into the pre-boiled water and watch as it hardens completely stiff.
How To: Make Mongolian Buuz dumplings
Dave learns how to make buuz (Mongolian dumplings) with a family in a ger. This is a traditional Eastern dish that is baked. The recipe is rooted in Mongolian history. Cooking in a ger or a yurt like house is important to put all elements of native culinary habits into consideration.
How To: Sear halibut with tomato, fennel, cucumber and mint
Secret Ingredient host Mark Law and Denver chef Jean Philippe Failyau of Osteria Marco take the mint out of the mojito and add it to a fresh summertime salad of cherry tomatoes, fennel, red onion, cucumber and mint, served over seared halibut. Follow along in this cooking how-to video as Whole Food's Market shows you how to prepare this delicious seafood dish. The tomato, fennel, cucumber and mint add a refreshing taste to the seared halibut.
How To: Cook lemon chicken with croutons
Ina serves lemon roasted chicken on a bed of sourdough croutons. Stuff the inside of a fresh chicken with lemon. Use fresh sourdough bread to make large, luscious croutons.
How To: Make tuna stuffed cucumber appetizers
Watch this instructional cooking video to prepare tuna stuffed cucumber appetizers. This recipe includes written instructions in addition to visual guidelines. Use a can of tuna, mayonnaise, diced carrots, and a cucumber to prepare a simple hors d'oeuvre to go with dinner at home.
How To: Make a shrimp appetizer
Watch this instructional cooking video to prepare a shrimp mold appetizer. This recipe tastes much better if you can use fresh jumbo shrimp, but you can also prepare this with a more modest selection of shrimp. This English style hors d'oeuvre is easy to prepare with common household ingredients.
How To: Grill beef tri-tip
It is barbecue season and it is time to take out those grills. Watch this how to video as our host chef shows you how to grill beef tri-tip. Tri-tip is delicious when it is cooked to perfection. Learn to grill it just right.
How To: Use parchment paper to cook fish
There are many tools you can use in the kitchen, one very important one is parchment paper. In this how to video Chef Paul explains using parchment paper with fish. However parchment paper is not limited to using it with fish, you can also use it with baking and other dishes that tend to stick.
How To: Use marshmallows cleverly in three different ways
And you just thought that marshmallows were only for roasting. Watch this how to video and let the Rookie Cook show you three clever uses for this tasty treat. Marshmallows can be used for ice cream treats, brown sugar, and frosting.
How To: Grill Baton Rouge style hamburgers
Watch this video to learn how to grill hamburgers with Cajun cook Beryl Stokes. This is a great grilled hamburger recipe with step-by-step preparation and grilling directions. Consider using a charcoal chimney. These Baton Rouge style hamburger will keep people asking for more.
How To: Make teriyaki sauce from scratch
Store bought teriyaki sauce can be loaded with salt and weird artificial ingredients. Fortunately, teriyaki sauce is easy to make at home. You will need organic soy sauce, unrefined sugar, garlic, ginger, honey, and water. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a fresh teriyaki sauce from scratch.
How To: Make a coconut peanut sauce
This great coconut peanut sauce goes well with spring rolls, noodles, or over chicken. You will need peanut, almond, or cashew butter, maple syrup, tamari soy sauce, brown rice vinegar, grated ginger root, hot pepper sesame oil, and coconut milk. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a coconut peanut sauce.
How To: Make pasta and ravioli from scratch
Chef Desireé and the kids make pasta from scratch. Pasta from scratch tastes so much better than the dried, pre-packaged kind, and is simple enough even for kids to make. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make pasta and ravioli from scratch.
How To: Use good knife technique
Chef Desireé shows the kids good knife technique and demonstrates several cuts with a potato. The right skills for cutting will improve the quality of the meals prepared. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to use good knife technique while preparing food.
How To: Dice a bell pepper with a serrated knife
Don't know how to perfectly chop your veggies? In this how to video Chef Jean Pierre shows you the proper way to dice a bell pepper with a serrated knife. Now you can enjoy cooking all your bell pepper recipes.
How To: Bake crab meat and bacon stuffed trout
Nothing beats fresh trout fish for dinner. The key to cooking up fresh fish is great recipes. This how to video demonstrates how to bake stuffed trout. Stuff your trout with crabmeat, bread, and bacon.
How To: Cook spoonbill fish jambalaya
This out of the ordinary recipe will set your taste buds on fire. Watch and learn how to make spoonbill jambalaya. Spoobnill is also known as paddlefish. Try making spoonbill fish jambalaya for dinner.
How To: Cook a spicy Cajun carp and shrimp recipe
Carp can make great fish recipes. Watch this how to video and learn how to make Cajun carp. This spicy fish and shrimp recipe is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Gather up your ingredients and prepare some carp for dinner.
How To: Grill salmon with a basic salt and pepper seasoning
Just started grilling food on your gas grill? Then watch this how to video and let the Rookie Cook show you how to grill salmon the easy way. This salmon recipe is quick and easy, any rookie can grill fish on a grill.
How To: Steam vegetables in a steaming basket
Steaming is the best way to cook vegetables because it keeps the vegetable's nutrients, taste, texture and color intact. This how to video goes over the step-by-step process to steam vegetables.
How To: Cook snapper grenobloise and lemon sauce
Snapper grenobloise is a great way to prepare fish. Once you've tried it, I am sure it will also your favorite snapper recipes. Red snapper lightly battered, sautéed to a light golden brown, and smothered with a lemon butter sauce with capers. Watch this how to video to learn how to prepare this fish recipe.
How To: Cook the perfect Chinese cashew chicken
In this how to video Chef Jean Pierre shows you how to make the best Chinese cashew chicken you've ever tasted, with this easy to prepare stir-fry recipe. To make it extra special serve over jasmine rice. Once you've learned how to prepare this recipe, you won't order Chinese takeout again.
How To: Prepare a beef chuck roast stroganoff
This how to video shows you how to cook chuck roast beef stroganoff. It is a delicious family favorite that has proven itself time and time again. Chef Jean-Pierre prepares his beef stroganoff recipe with cubed and simmered chuck roast, onions, mushrooms, and sour cream, served over buttered egg noodles.
How To: Make roasted garlic mashed potatoes
Roasted garlic mashed potatoes is an extremely popular dish, both at home and in restaurants. One taste of Chef Jean-Pierre's Mashed Potatoes and you will see why. Watch this how to video as the Chef shows you how to cook up roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
How To: Prepare Olive Garden's chicken crostina
This dish was inspired and created at Olive Garden's Culinary Institute of Tuscany in Italy. In this how-to video Chef Paolo Lafata will show you how to prepare this flavorful chicken entrée featuring a golden potato-parmesan crust and paired with linguine pasta and a creamy garlic-butter sauce. It's a perfect way to add some zest to your family's chicken blues. Start cooking Olive Garden's chicken crostina.
How To: Make a smoked eggs and carmelized bacon
Tired of frying, boiling, scrambling and deviling eggs? Smoke them on a BBQ grill. Johnny O shows how to smoke eggs in the shell, and make smoked caramelized bacon to go with them. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to smoke eggs and carmelize bacon for a barbecued breakfast.
How To: Cook a bell pepper and herbs egg omelette
Omelette recipes are the perfect quick and easy dish. An omelette can easily be made like the omelets you get in fancy restaurants. Watch this how to video and learn how easy it is to scramble some eggs and herbs to make a fluffly omelette with no added fat. You can stuff it with chopped bell peppers or your favorite filling.
How To: Cook pasta e fagioli with penne pasta
Pasta fagioli or pasta e fagioli means pasta and beans. In this simple and quick recipe, Rita shows you how to make this classic. This pasta e fagioli soup is not the bland soup you find in many chain restaurants, but a full flavored pasta sauce served over whole wheat penne. Watch this how to video and enjoy this great Italian recipe.
How To: Understand the different types of cooking flours
Flour comes in many different types. Whole wheat, unbleached, bleached and even specific types for gravies. This how-to video discusses the different types of flours out there and what they are good for. Watch and learn what type of flour to buy the next time you are at the grocery store.
How To: Use and store basil leaves for cooking
Basil is full of nutrition and flavor. It can be a powerful part of a healthy diet. Basil is full of flavor and reduces the need for salt.
How To: Make baked beans with two different types of beans
Baked beans can be much more than the regular ones you're used to. This baked beans recipe takes an old country classic and spruces it up. These beans are easy to make and delicious to eat! In this how to video, Rita Heikenfeld shows you how to cook "Bodacious Baked Beans".
How To: Learn about seven different types of kitchen knives
This how-to video is an easy guide to essential kitchen knives every home cook needs. Chop, slice, pare and carve through any meat or veggie with the proper knife. Learn about carving, boning, pairing, steak, cake, serrated knives and a standard chef's knife. Find the one that's perfect for your needs.
How To: Cook nori wrapped salmon
This tutorial video will teach you how to make nori wrapped wasabi salmon. Nori is a seaweed that is common in Japan. This is a great fish dish for any time of the year.
How To: Make class ratatouille like a chef
In this tutorial cooking video, Chef Brian prepares a classic french recipe "Ratatouille". This eggplant recipe is quick, easy and quite healthy.
How To: Make a baked salmon
In this tutorial cooking video, Chef Brian prepares a classic french recipe known as "salmon mutard". This video demonstrates how to remove skin from salmon and shares salmon facts. Always buy wild salmon. This recipe can be prepared with King, Chinook, Sockeye or Coho.
How To: Cook mahimahi
This simple yet tasty recipe will have you in and out of the kitchen and eating yout mahi mahiin no time. This is a great broiled mahi mahi recipe that uses olive oil, herb blend, kosher salt and fresh ground pepper.