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How To: Make non-mushy quinoa

Marni Wasserman at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair demonstrates how to make non-mushy quinoa. The trick to making quinoa that doesn't come out in a big clump is to dry roast it. Take the quinoa and put it into a pot and put it over heat. Move the grains around until all the water is evaporated. You'll smell the nutty aroma of the quinoa as it's being dry roasted. Once the quinoa is dry roasted, add two cups of water to one cup of quinoa. Let that come to a boil with a little bit of sea salt ...

How To: Cook collard greens quickly

In this video, Kemp Minifie, Executive Food Editor from Gourmet Magazine, explains a quick and easy way to cook collard greens. Southern style cooked greens are cooked for a long time. She is demonstrating the Brazilian method of cooking collard greens. She cuts the stem the long way down the middle and removes it. She stacks up the halves of the leaves and rolls them up starting from the short end, then slices them into long thin shreds. They shrink when they're cooked. She heats the pan ove...

How To: Warm tortillas

1. This video describes how to warm tortillas. If you have a gas stove, set the burner to simmer and put the tortilla on the burner and keep the tortilla for 8 to 10 seconds on each side. After that transfer it to a pan covered with foil to keep tortilla warm.

How To: Make rice and peas

In order to cook rice and peas, heat oil in a pan and add chopped onions and garlic. Then cook for two minutes. Then add 2 cups of long grain rice and stir the ingredients. Lower the heat and add jerk marinade, thyme (dried & fresh). Then add spring onions cut them in half. Next add 2 cups of coconut milk and 2 cups of water. Then add a tin of boiled kidney beans or another type of beans of your preference. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes and your dish is ready.

How To: Cook super tasty hash browns

Grog is good demonstrates how to cook some hash browns. You'll need a food processor with a grating attachment, a peeler, a knife, a cutting board, two pans, some margarine, oil, and either red or Yukon gold potato. First peel the potato and put it into the food processor. Next get them into water to watch the starch off of them and prevent browning. Next dry them using a colander and dry them with a towel. Heat some margarine and a teaspoon of oil in a pan on medium high heat and then drop y...

How To: Easily make clarified butter

Learn how to easily make clarified butter at your home in simple steps from Jason Hill. First heat a pan and add some thick butter on it. Let the butter stay on the for sometime until it is completely melted. Now start skimming the surface of the melted butter little by little using a spoon. You will get the clarified butter when its skimmed off completely. You can use it many purposes as it hold a lot heat.

How To: Make homemade cheese

Alexa from SustainablePantry demonstrates how to make homemade cheese in under 5 minutes. Pour 1/2 gallon of whole organic pasteurized milk in the pot. Heat it to a rolling boil over medium heat. Add plain distilled white vinegar. Stir frequently until you see the milk splitting into lump of curds. These curds are your homemade cheese. When the curds have settled, slowly pour the curdled milk into the colander with a cheese cloth. Drain off all the liquid until it become more and more cheese ...

How To: Curl your hair with a flat iron for a pretty look

Here's how achieve your curls using a flat iron. 1. Brush your hair and spray on heat protect product while waiting for the flat iron to warm up. 2. Part your hair into sections. Again, spray on some heat protect before you start curling. Start curling the hair sections by turning the iron slowly. The volume of the curls will depend on your taste. 3. Curl the rest of your hair and then spritz on some hair spray when done for more long lasting curls.

How To: Make black eyed peas

C4Bimbos, teaches you how to make black eyed peas. You start with a quarter pound of pork meat that you chop up into small pieces. Heat up a pot on the stove and add the meat. Keep on stirring to get it evenly cooked. Add chopped onions and jalapeno peppers. Add a little bit of salt and garlic to the mix. Put 8 cups of black eyed peas that were soaked overnight over the mixture above. Stir everything together and make sure it doesn't stick or burn. You add a tin of petite cut tomatoes and a f...

How To: Make hot summer sausage

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....

How To: Curl your hair without using any heat

You may not know this but you don't really need to use heat or hair rollers to curl your hair. Learn how to make beautiful curls that hold up without using a curling iron. This method can be done anywhere, anytime of the day and is completely safe for the hair. All it takes is your favorite hair spray or gel, a basic comb and a hair rod. This method is cost efficient and it looks really great. For some lovely new hair tips, be sure to watch this excellent video.

How To: Make BBQ appetizers

BBQTalk teaches the secrets to grilling the perfect salami appetizer, every time. Cut Genoa salami into 1/8 inch thick slices. Brush the salami with oil (EVOO preferred). Cut French baguette into 1/4 inch slices. Brush the bread slices with oil (EVOO preferred). Place the salami and bread over medium heat with oil side down. When the salami has cooked properly, place the slices on the bread. Top it with jalapeno, pepperoncini, and Havarti cheese. Leave on the grill on medium heat until cheese...

How To: Prepare a tender rib roast with slow cooker

This video demonstrates how to cook a rib roast using the slow cooking method. First heat a fry pan to a very high temperature and put the roast into the frying pan. Fry it for three minutes on each side. Take it out of the fry pan and put it into an oven platter. Preheat the oven to 90 degrees C, and when it's heated, put the meat in for one hour. The method used in this video will produce a fully cooked rib roast that is very tender.

How To: Make crunchy tempura flakes for sushi

Vraymond02 shows how to make crunchy tempura flakes. Start by peeping a pan that will be used for draining. Mix your wet ingredients together, then put flour, water, and egg whites together to form your batter. Strain your batter, then heat your oil on high heat. Pour your batter slowly into the oil; drain when you're done. It should be crispy when done. If it's poured too fast or too much is poured at once it will bake a big dough ball that won't be right. Break the pieces up, wait 5-10 minu...

How To: Get sexy curls & an easy updo for curly hair

This video shows you how to curl hair with a 19mm Jose Obair clipless curling iron. Part your hair and spray with heat protectant such as Ironguard 44. By layering hair and using the clipless iron, the process goes very quickly. A heat protective glove is used. This video is very good at showing the steps to create an updo using this particular curling iron. Learn how to get a fabulous updo with gorgeous curls by watching this video!

How To: Make eel sauce

Eel sauce, or kabayaki sauce, is a thick, sweet Japanese sauce commonly served as a dipping sauce for Japanese seafood dishes. This eel sauce recipe is quick and easy... as well as delicious.

How To: Save Energy at Home

The most basic way to to cut back energy costs is to keep your house from losing heat in the winter or getting too hot in the summer. Curtains, awnings, ventilators, and weather stripping are all simple changes that can keep the heating costs down, while florescent bulbs can last longer and use less power than traditional light bulbs. Watch this video home improvement tutorial and learn how to save energy at home.

How To: Watercool a PC

If you've never dabbled in water cooling, it's all about removing heat from the components in your PC using water instead of air–although instead of having a "cooling jacket" designed into the engine block, you attach a waterblock to the component you want to cool on your motherboard (or GPU, HD, memory, etc) in place of a heatsink, along with a set of tubes, a heat exchanger (i.e., radiator) along with a pump to move your coolant. In this video, you'll learn the fundamentals of watercooling ...

How To: Make a glass out of a beer bottle

This video tutorial shows how to make a cool beer glass out of a beer bottle. This is also a great trick for cutting the bottle; forget the glass cutter or tricks with string and acetone. Just pour oil up to the level where you want the bottle cut off and place a red-hot piece of metal into it. Because of the great heat conductivity of oil and at the poor heat conductivity of glass, it will expand at the edge of the oil surface, cracking in a nice even line. Watch this instructional video and...

How To: Pan fry whole trout

Check out this how to video to learn how to make pan fried whole trout. Experience a new video cookbook with delicious summertime recipes, perfect for your picnic basket or backyard BBQ table.

How To: Make fast and easy homemade cheese

Sy West demonstrates making homemade cheese. She starts with one gallon of milk, one cup of white vinegar, the juice from one lemon half, salt and pepper and garlic salt. Sy recommends adding other spices at the end for a different taste. Heat the milk in a large sauce pan slowly to 168 degrees. It should take about fifteen minutes. Stir it often. When milk reaches 168 degrees remove it from the heat and slowly pour in the vinegar and lemon juice while stirring. The curd should start separati...

How To: Create long lasting curls for straight hair

If you have very fine, straight hair and have always had a hard trying to keep your strands curled, this video will give you a look into steps you can follow to solve that problem. Before starting on your hair, collect all the necessary tools which include: flat iron, hair clips, Velcro rollers, hair tie, and comb with pointed tip. To start, prepare your hair by adding mousse. Don’t forget to also add a heat resistant chemical to avoid damage and breakage in hair. Then work with the upper t...

How To: Make a white chocolate mousse pie

In this Food video tutorial you will learn how to make a white chocolate mousse pie. Take 13 cream-filled sandwich cookies, crush them in the food processor, mix 3 tbsp unsalted, melted butter and press them down on the bottom of a 9” pie tray. Then take 17 oval sandwich cookies and place them along the side of the tray. Take 12 oz white chocolate chopped up, 4 oz cream cheese, ¼ cup heavy cream, 1 ¼ tsp unflavored gelatin, add them up together and heat over medium heat for about 6 minute...

How To: Make a Japanese-style banana cream pie

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to a banana cream pie. Begin by making the custard cream filling. To make the filling, users will need 1/3 cup of all purpose flour, 1/3 cup of granulated sugar and 1/3 tsp of salt. Mix the mixture well and then sift it. Now slowly stir in 1 1/3 cup of milk and heat the mixture until it thickens. Now turn down the heat and set the mixture aside. Peel and slice 2-3 bananas. Add 2 egg yolks into the mixture and stir well. Heat the mixture until it boils...