Bechamel is one of the classic French "mother sauces" and the starting point for most cheese sauces and gratin dishes. If you've ever made baked macaroni and cheese, you've probably made bechamel. A blend of white roux and scalded milk, bechamel is one of the easiest French sauces to make.
While topping your cake or cupcake with icing is easiest done using storebought icing, we're sorry to inform you that most grocery store icing has high amounts of saturated fat and even trans fat, both of which clog your arteries and contribute to heart disease. Not so appetizing now, is it?
Homemade chicken pot pie warms you up on chilly days and is a great way to use leftover chicken. Watch how to make this hearty dish.This is the ultimate comfort food, and it is a great way to use up leftover chicken. You will need chicken, double pie crust, oil, chopped vegetables, like celery, carrots and onions, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and parsley, butter, flour, chicken broth and milk.
A delicious dessert enjoyed across the globe, rice pudding is a satisfying way to end any meal. Try this traditional rice pudding recipe baked with a sweet meringue topping. You will need long grain rice, milk, eggs, granulated sugar, vanilla, and raisins or dried fruit, if desired.
Whether you're planning a special breakfast or are craving a buttery treat, these croissants are quick and easy to whip up. You will need water, evaporated milk, butter, eggs, salt, sugar, bread flour and active dried yeast. When finished serve with butter, jam or jelly.
Chef Chris Smith makes two different types of smoothies including a chocolate peanut butter and a berry smoothie usng berries, soy milk, tofu, banana extract and fiber fruit smoothie. Both demonstrations are low carb smoothies.
Is it Saturday night, past 2am, and all you have left is some cheap vodka and milk left in the fridge? Have no fear, you can diversify your alcohol options easily! Learn how to make a Kahlua style coffee liqueur at home.
Whisper sweet nothings to your amor by crafting this simple and quick origami message card, which features a heart seal. It's a delightful way to package a loving, amorous sentiment and can also hold tiny trinkets of your affection.
Soap is an incredible thing and this how-to shows some of its incredible qualities. You'll need a plate, some whole mile, some food coloring, some Q-tips and some dish detergent. It's an explosion of color! Some very unusual things happen when you mix a little milk, food coloring, and a drop of liquid soap. Use the experiment to amaze your friends and uncover the scientific secrets of soap.
A sous-vide is an "under vacuum," a method of cooking food sealed in plastic bags and then dipped into a water bath that typically takes up to 72 hours to complete. Why cook your food in plastic baggies, you ask? To make sure all the ingredients come out pure and unadulterated.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a funnel cake. To start, you will make the mix by combining 3 c flour with 2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 c sugar, 2 c milk, and 3 eggs. Then, you will need to heat up some canola oil to 350 degrees in a large pan. After this, drizzle the dough into the pan and cook on both sides until it's golden brown. This will go very quick. When finished cooking, let the oil drain on a paper towel. Then, serve this with your favorite toppings and eat!
What's better than either pound cake or French toast? The love child of these two delicious bready treats. Check out this tutorial to see how to whip up a French toast pound cake that's light, delicious, and perfect for serving up on chilly fall mornings.
Wear this Medusa makeup look out on Halloween and guys will literally die in awe of your beauty. The infamous Greek monster Medusa was, after all, once a beautiful woman, and still quite beautiful even after she turned into a large snake with a headpiece of writing, slippery snakes.
Purple is the hottest makeup color of the fall season, and it's been seen as much on high fashion runways as on celebrities like Rachel McAdams and, recently, Kate Hudson on the September cover of "Elle."
It's a classic dilemma parodied in so many TV shows and movies we now roll our eyes every time we see it: Two women are trying to pry open a jar of jam (or some other condiment) but, despite their best efforts, the lid just won't pop. So they enlist the help of a pretty boy who lives next door to finish the "manly" job.
If you're a habitual makeup user then your brushes probably experience a lot of wear and tear every day. This means not only that you must clean them right after you use them, but also that their logos and brush numbers - MAC 216 for instance, fade away quickly.
It seems that cupcakes are the designer foodstuff of choice these days. They're really not all that different from cakes (they're made from the same dough, after all), but their miniature size makes them individually portioned for convenience and also a great base for adorable decor.
Whether you've got a gaggle of kids coming over or a group of friends who's dropping by unexpectedly, it's often very hard to come up with a delicious snack on the fly, especially one that can be made by the time the guests arrive.
While there exist many makeup tutorials out on the web, you'll seldom find one that applies to all skin tones. Darker skin tones in particular require a different outlook in terms of color intensity and application.
This survival cache is made for adventurers who, if lost, may stumble upon this handy little tube and immediately get some food and knowledge of their geographic location.
Unless you're an actual mermaid or a member of the Na'vi, this insane mermaid look probably won't get you any propositions on the street.
A poker face is sharp, beautiful, and intimidating, giving your target a peak at the cow without giving away the milk. Bring out your inner card-dealing bovine by watching this professional makeup tutorial by makeup artist Reiva Cruze.
In this video,we learn how to make marinade that is perfect for flank steak. You will need: 1/2 c soy sauce, 1/4 c brown sugar, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1/2 tsp ground ginger, pepper, 1 minced shallot, 1 minced garlic clove and sesame oil. To make this, mix all ingredients into bowl and keep mixing until they are well combined When finished, put your flank steak into a large plastic baggie. Now, pour your marinade over the steak and seal the bag, then let sit overnight. This will create a delicious ...
In this video, we learn how to make a croissant with ham, eggs, cheese and veggies. You can customize this to make it just how you like! To begin this recipe you need: 4 already made croissants, 4 eggs, 1/2 bell pepper, 1/2 tomato, 4 cloves garlic, 4 tbsp olive oil, 2 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp flour, 3/4 c cheese, 3/4 c milk, ham, 1/2 c mushrooms, and spinach. Next, heat your skillet over medium and pour in olive oil. Now, chop up your veggies and place into the skillet to cook. While they are cook...
Hilah from Hilah Cooking mixes up a large gin sidecar, big enough for a thermos. The ingredients include two thirds of a cup of fresh lemon juice, two thirds of a cup of gin, and two thirds of a cup orange flavored liqueur. She squeezes the juice of four whole lemons for two thirds of a cup of juice. Then she pours the ingredients in a shaker that has already been filled with ice, and shakes vigorously to mix and chill the drink. She also pre-chills the thermos with ice. After removing the ic...
This how-to video shows you how to make boiled wheat. To do this, take some wheat and put it in a pot. Pour some water into the pot and put it on a stove in order to boil it. After about 45 minutes to an hour, you will now have lovely boiled wheat grains. You can use this dish as a side dish. You can also use it with natural yogurt, fruit, and cinnamon for breakfast. Another alternative is using milk, peanut butter, and honey. You can also use it with a salad. Just add lintels, parsley, salt,...
This video shows us an unusual method for making Buckwheat Millet Coconut Waffles. The batter for these waffles is made without flour, but with actual grains - millet and buckwheat.
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This video shows you how to re-pot your houseplants. When your geraniums have overgrown, cut your clippings. Let the clipping cure: i.e. the wound that you created needs to seal and cure, before planting. Set them aside, in order to allow them to cure. Once that is done, submerge the tip of the fresh clipping in a pot filled with fresh soil. Remember to remove dead leaves.
This video shows you how to prepare Chicken and Pears. For this recipe, you will need: one whole chicken, a stand to roast chicken on, a toothpick, salt, pepper, and pears.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to change a car's headlight and taillights. There are 3 types of headlights for a car. The 3 types are: sealed beam, halogen bulb and HID lights. This video shows viewers how to change halogen bulbs. Begin by opening the hood of the car. Remove the fastener or wire harness and then remove the bulb. Now replace it with a new bulb and put the wire harness or fastener back on. This video will benefit those viewers who have a vehicle and would like to lea...
This will illustrate us how to Patch budding pecans . Here are the following steps.Step 1: First of all we have to see whether the right season is there or not that is spring or late summer.Step 2 :Selecta smooth, convenient location on the stock. Make a double cut approximately 11/2 inches long, by rotating a double bladed budding knifeStep 3: Connect the double cut on the right side with one perpendicular cut. This can be done with one of the budding knife blades.Step 4: Raise the bark on ...
This video shows the viewer how make frizzy hair straight. This is done using a straightening iron, a comb and a small amount of hair ‘silicone sealant’. The first stage is to comb the hair and ensure that it is not tangled or matted. Secondly take a section of hair around one inch wide and pass the straightening irons from the root to the ends taking no more than a few seconds -if the iron is held on the hair for too long it will burn. This process should be repeated for all of the remaining...
In this video from zecuppa Brandon Warren, a bartender, shows how to make a Black and a White Russian. These are coffee flavored drinks with coffee liqueurs. For the black Russian, put a shot of vodka in a glass with ice. Then add a half of a shot of Kahlua, which is coffee flavored liqueur, to that. Shake that or stir it up. That is a black Russian. Now for a white Russian all you have to do is top it off with a shot of cream or milk, and that will turn the black Russian into a white Russian...
To make quick and easy cornbread in a truck, the host only needs jiffy corn muffin mix, egg beaters instead of whole eggs, and a little bit of milk. The ingredients are combined in a bowl, then poured into a disposable baking tin. A Crockpot is used in place of a traditional oven for baking by removing the glass interior. Place the tin with the mix directly inside, and cover until baked fully. The host usually uses a small tin that will fit easily inside the Crockpot, but if only a larger one...
Skip Steele and Terry Black of the award winning Super Smokers BBQ Team share their method for making championship barbecue ribs.
In this video Hetal and Anuja are demonstrating how Ghee (clarified Butter) can be made out of unsalted butter. Ghee is a very important ingredient in Indian cooking. Also, since its smoking point is higher than butter, it does not burn very fast as butter does. To make ghee you have to take unsalted butter and heat it in a heavy bottom pan on a low flame. Keep stirring it so that the milk solids do not get burnt at the bottom of the pan. After about 20 minutes the butter is completely melted...
In this video from sfehmi we learn how to make Gajar ka halwa which is a Indian carrot pudding. It is difficult to make but she shows us how to do it simply. For this we need two pounds of carrots, 14 oz sweet condensed milk, four oz unsalted butter, four green cardamom, 1/4 cup of blanched skinned almonds, and 1/4 cup of cashew nuts. She chops the nuts and then shreds the carrots in food processor. Now melt the butter in the pan and while it's melting put in cardamoms. When the butter is mel...
This video will teach you how to make a cocktail called a Flaming Blue Lamborghini. The alcohols are: Barcardi 151, Kahlua, Galiano and Blue Curacao. He uses a martini glass and pours in half an ounce of Bacardi and lights it. The glass is rotated while he adds Kahlua, Galiano and Blue Curacao. All the while, the drink is still flaming. While he continues to rotate the glass, he pours milk into it and the flame turns red and rises while a woman sips the drink with a straw. If you really want ...
Ingredients for Green Tea Ice Cream (400ml/1.69 u.s. cup)
