Are you running out of time to make dessert and your guests are just about to arrive? Here is a video on five quick & easy desserts you can make in a jiffy including a Baked Compote of Winter Fruit with cranberries, red wine, apple cider, and lemon rhine, as well as recipes for Individual Chocolate Winter Cakes, Dark Chocolate Mulled Wine Sauce, Brandy Vanilla Cheesecake Dip, and Hello Dolly Bars!
Learn how to make brown butter sauce. Making a brown butter sauce is easy. Butter is composed of three components: butter fat, water, and milk solids. To make brown butter sauce, you'll need flour, butter, parsley, lemon, and fish.
A cutting board is essential — even if you only ever cut drink garnishes, slicing limes on a dormroom desk is pretty gross.
Make this delicious – and healthy – chickpea puree in a matter of minutes. Learn how to make hummus.
Recycle your soap odds and ends into a beautiful new bar. Learn how to make recycled soap in this instructional video.
Make brand-new treats out of your leftover candy canes. You will need:
Check out this video to learn how to cut a perfect lime wedge so it perches on the side of your glass. Don’t forgo the garnish for fear of a wiggly lime. This also applies to wobbly lemons! Important bartending tip.
After a visit to the fromagerie, Ina makes one of her favorite salads. Follow the Barefoot Contessa and learn how to prepare an edvine pear salad with a lemon vinaigrette. The ingredients you need for this recipe are: fromagerie, pears, walnuts, Champagne vinegar, dijon mustard, egg yolk, salt, pepper, olive oil, and lettuce leaves.
Want to roast a whole bird? Well Chef Will is going to guide you through it with little hassle. Making a roasted chicken with the directions from the Two Minute Chefs is very easy. All you will need for the roasted chicken recipe is: a whole chicken, lemon, garlic, olive oil, and thyme.
If risotto is the last item in your pantry you will love this recipe. Watch the Two Minute Chefs as they show you how to make rockin' risotto. The ingredients you need for this recipe are wasabi powder, risotto. Serve the risotto with a lemon grass and garlic chicken dish.
In this cooking how-to video Will and Rachel show you how to make an amazing apple tart in the easiest way possible. Impress your friends and family with your new cooking prowess with this simple apple dessert recipe. The ingredients you will need to make the apple tart are: skinned apples, lemon juice, sugar, and butter.
Bridget Albert, master mixologist, shows how to shake up a delicious alcoholic drink. Follow along with the step-by-step directions in this how-to video and learn how to make a Ditka Kick Ass Bloody Mary. For the recipe used in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial, you will need 100 proof vodka, Ditka's Bloody Mary Kick Ass bloody mary mix, and lemon. Enjoy your fresh bloody mary cocktail.
What better way to learn how to mix a drink than from a hot girl! This bartending how-to video teaches a cocktail recipe for a Grandma in her Wheelchair. You will need Gran Marnier, tequila, 7-Up lemon-lime soda, and sweetened lime juice. Follow along with this video mixology lesson and find out how to make a Grandma in her Wheelchair cocktail. Get your (alcoholic) drink on.
Learn how to mix a Mexicana cocktail--a zesty way to start your evening! Ingredients:
Humus is healthy and vegetarian and is mostly eaten as an appetizer. This cooking how to video tutorial shows you how to prepare a simple base recipe for hummus. Serve it as a snack, for dinner, with pita bread or other breads.
Incorporating tofu into your diet is a great way to start eating healthy. Tofu is delicious and it can be made at home from scratch. Just watch this cooking how to video to learn how.
Do you want a great dessert that doesn't require much baking time? In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, makes no-bake blueberry cheesecake bars. Make your homemade graham cracker crust and fill with ricotta cheese filling. The ingredients you need for this recipe include: ricotta cheese, cream cheese, graham crackers, lemon zest, honey and blueberries.
You've had salty soy sauce dredged edamame at your favorite Japanese restaurant. In this cooking how to video tutorial Mark Bittman, from the New York Times, turns a familiar Japanese appetizer into something new. Watch as he prepares an edamame salad. All you need for this light salad bean recipe is: edamame, lemon zest, olive oil, salt, pepper, mint, graded cheese.
Mixologist Eben Freeman, of Tailor restaurant in New York City, demonstrates how to prepare a variation on the classic Brazilian cocktail, the Caipirinha--substituting kumquats for limes. While the ingredients might be a little unusual, the Caipirinha is easy to make and highly enjoyable. You will need Turbinado sugar crystals, lemon juice, kumquats, and cachaca Brazilian rum-like liqueur. Watch this video mixology tutorial and learn how to make a Brazilian Caipirinha cocktail.
Leather seats are expensive. Keep them looking that way with a little cleaning and conditioning. You will need a hand-held vacuum (or one with an attachment nozzle), a bottle of leather cleaning solution, a soft, dry sponge, clean, dry cloths, a spray bottle of water, a bottle of leather conditioner with sunscreen, lemon juice, and cream of tartar. Watch this video car care tutorial and learn how to clean the leather seats in a car.
Make a Mediterranean salad with couscous and all the flavors of Sicily. You will need Isreali couscous, garlic, olive oil, chicken broth, lemon, fresh mint and basil, dried cranberries, and toasted almonds. This fresh Italian style salad is both healthy and appetizing.
Prepare the perfect smoked salmon platter for Sunday morning guests. You will need 8 oz. of smoked salmon, a thinly sliced lemon, a minced red onion, two hard boiled eggs, capers, cream cheese, rye and pumpernickel bread, and fresh dill. Let people talk and snack as they assemble their own smoked salmon delicacies.
Grill halloumi cheese with chili peppers for a truly elegant snack. Halloumi is a hard sharp brie cheese that, when grilled and seasoned with mild peppers and fresh lemon juice, creates a tantalizing snack for picnics, gatherings, or afternoon in the garden on your own.
In this Diet & Health how-to video our host demonstrates how to make lemonade for the Master Cleanse. The Master cleanse is a 10-40 day lemonade fast. All you need for this cleansing drink is water, lemon juice (minus the pulp), cayenne pepper and maple syrup. For a raw recipe you can use agave nectar instead.
Thai hot and sour soup is great for a cold day. Watch this how to video from Thai Chef Kai and learn how to make hot and sour catfish soup. This is great catfish soup recipe that is sure to keep everyone warm. Use mushrooms, tomatoes, lemon grass, lime leaves, chilies, fish sauce, lime juice and water for your soup.
It only takes one day to feel the results from this amazing easy to make raw organic blended breakfast. What this how to video to learn how to make a raw breakfast of champions. All you need for this raw breakfast drink is: pear, apple, lemon, ginger root, and kale.
Try making Thai spicy beef and wash it down with cold beer, mmm good. For this recipe, you will need beef, parsley, mint leaves, shallot, lemon grass, chili powder, roasted rice of bread crumb, sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, and cooking oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to prepare neua naam tok, spicy grilled beef, with Thai chef Kai.
While it's still summer and warm out, try Thai grilled chicken at your next BBQ party. For this recipe, you will need chicken, lemon grass, ginger, sugar, curry powder, and soy sauce. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to grill kai yaang, grilled chicken, with Thai chef Kai.
Fish is so healthy, and a good sauce will make it that much more tasty. This Thai recipe is for a fish dish that's easy to make too. You will need catfish, garlic, lemon grass, ginger, sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and beef broth. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to bake fish in ginger sauce with Thai chef Kai.
Chef Paul explains a few home remedies in this how to video. Watch and learn how salted water helps a toothache, baking soda helps an upset stomach and lemon honey can help a sore throat. Who know you may come up with a home remedy of your own after watching this how to video.
Fatteh is a Mediterranean breakfast dish, delicious and easy to make. You will need Mediterranean yogurt, minced garlic, lemon juice, tahini sesame seed paste, water, and salt. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make Fatteh.
Toum, garlic sauce, garlic dip is a Lebanese side dish prepared using canola oil, garlic, lemon juice, and egg white. It is served with chicken and meat as a dipping sauce or mayonnaise. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a Mediterranean garlic sauce.
Perhaps best known as the stuffed grape leaf, which is more precisely called warak areesh, yaprak dolma or sarma. This is a great vegetarian recipe. You will need grape leaves, long grain rice, parsley, tomato, mint, green onion, yellow onion, cayenne pepper, salt, lemon juice, and olive oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make Mediterranean stuffed grape leaves.
In this how to video Chef Paul demonstrates how to make meunirere sauce. A meunirere is a classic sauce that has stayed very true to its ingredients. All you need for this recipe is butter, parsley, and lemon juice.
Make a delicious light fruit cake with cook Sophie Grigson. You will need desiccated coconut, candied mixed peel, lemon zest, orange rind, milk, sweet sherry, butter, caster sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, cherries, and sultanas. Watch this video baking tutorial and learn how to make a delicious coconut fruit cake.
Tabouli or tabouleh salad is a great light and refreshing Mediterranean salad. You will need parsley, tomato, green onion, lemon juice, mint, burgul, salt, olive oil, cayenne pepper, and iceberg lettuce. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a tabouli or tabouleh salad.
Foul or ful mudammas is a great Mediterranean or Middle Eastern breakfast or lunch recipe. It's full of protein, flavorful, and healthy. You will need fava beans, garbanzo beans, salt, garlic, lemon juice, tomato, parsley, radish, and olive oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make foul or ful mudammas.
Make a classic American pie zingy lime dessert with chef Charita Jones. You will need digestive biscuits or graham crackers, butter, sweetened condensed milk, lime juice, an egg, and pressed lemon juice. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to bake a key lime pie.
The subtle spicy peppery-ness of the aromatic ginger root marries beautifully with the gin, cranberry and orange flavors in this delightful cocktail. You will need ginger, lemon juice, gin, triple sec orange liqueur, and cranberry juice. Watch this video mixology tutorial and learn how to make a ginger cosmo martini.
This sweet and zesty strawberry martini is easy to make in a minute. You will need gin, strawberry liqueur, and fresh lemon juice. Watch this video mixology tutorial and learn how to make a strawberry martini cocktail.
