Try fried bananas, Thai-style! With few ingredients and a short cooking time, you won't believe how delicious this simple dessert will be. You will need frozen spring roll pastry wrappers, bananas and cooking oil for frying. Serve the bananas warm. For a special dessert, top them with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.
If you like to cook, you've probably made roux, the classic thickener for soups, sauces and stews, hundreds of times -- even if you didn't know you were doing it. Roux is equal parts flour and fat -- butter or oil, ususally -- combined into a smooth paste over heat.
A unique breakfast food from India, Vada Pav is a quick and easy meal. Made with fresh chanti and then seasoned with fresh chili, curry leaves, mustard oil and gram flour this is served on a fresh bun. Vada Pav is also a kid friendly meal and vegetarian delight.
Chef John wants to celebrate tender and sweet spring peas, and delicate star-shaped pasta (Stellette) in a simple salad, and he is not going to clutter it up trying to clean out the vegetable bins. Everything about this salad is subtle. The tender peas barely get cooked by sitting in the hot pasta for a few minutes. The dressing is nothing more than some lemon and oil.
Fresh-made pizza is much easier to make than most people realize. Learn how to prepare your own pizza dough and top it with your favorite ingredients. Ingredients for the dough are hot water, yeast, olive oil, flour, rosemary and salt. For the sauce, canned tomatoe sauce or canned pizza sauce. Top pizza with whatever toppings you prefer and cover with mozzarella cheese.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make wontons. All you need is chicken (or any other meat), green onion, soy sauce, pepper, sesame oil, and water. Wontons are an Asian dish.
Once you see how quick and easy this Italian tomato sauce is to make, you will never have a reason to eat tomato sauce from a jar again. This is a recipe you can put together in 15 minutes, the same amount of time it takes most pasta to boil. You will need the following ingredients for this recipe: olive oil, onion, garlic clove, dried basil, salt and a can of diced tomatoes.
Learn how to make this Spanish style breakfast omelette. All you need are eggs, onions, potatoes, olive oil, and salt.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make an omelette. All you need are eggs, salt, ground pepper, tarragon, parsley, lavender, marsh, thyme, and oil.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make homemade pet food. All you need is chicken, rice, corn oil, and canine supplement.
Homemade vegetable soup isn't just satisfying, it's healthy, too. Watch how to whip up a batch of this tasty soup from scratch. You will need: olive oil, chopped vegetables, salt, thyme, oregano, water and vegetable bouillon. The beauty of this soup is that it can be adapted to whatever ingredients that you happen to have on hand.
Baking is one of the easiest ways to cook chicken, because you can just put it in the oven and forget about it until it is done. We are going to be baking a double chicken breast. I am also going to show you how to make a lemon sauce that is quick and adds a lot of flavor to the dish. For the marinade you will need lemons, olive oil, garlic, mustard, thyme, salt and pepper.
Instead of throwing out bananas that become overripe, you can use them to make fresh banana bread. Learn how to make this simple yet delicious treat. You will need sugar, vegetable oil, egg, bananas, flour, salt and baking soda. The bananas should be very, very ripe -- almost black. You will also need a bread pan for baking the banana bread.
Using one pot to cook all the ingredients, this shrimp and sausage jambalaya is an efficient way to combine your favorite flavors in one meal. Ingredients needed are cooked sausage, cooked shrimp, vegetable oil, minced garlic, double-strength tomato paste, salt, dried leaf thyme, cayenne pepper, saffron (optional), green onion, red and green bell pepper, can diced tomatoes and uncooked long grain rice.
If it's warm outside, cool down with a fresh Greek salad. This zesty mix of vegetables, olives, and feta cheese is hearty enough to be a meal. For this recipe, you will need: ripe tomatoes, red onion, green bell pepper, cucumber, feta cheese, dried oregano, salt, olivew oil, kalamata olives and water.
Fried cod and potatoes complement each other perfectly in this hearty dish. Serve with malt vinegar or tartar sauce. You will need russet potatoes, cod, oil, beer, flour, cornstarch, salt, black pepper, paprika, cayenne pepper, a large pot or wok for frying, a theromoeter, and a slotted spoon. You can serve the fish and chips with malt vinegar, which is traditional, or with tartar sauce.
Barbecue chicken wings are great at parties or as a snack. And chances are, you have all the ingredients you need in your pantry.
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.
Chef Franklin Becker starts with a diced boneless and skinless chicken breast with a mix of soy sauce, sesame oil and corn starch to set in refrigeration. After marinating he mixes broccoli with the chicken while cooking over a stove adding mushrooms and water for broth. The dish is seasoned with garlic, ginger and scallions.
Today's pollution, hectic lifestyle, inadequate sleep and no time for pampering can leave your skin lackluster resulting in drying skin and making dry skin drier ultimately causing the early appearance of wrinkles and aging. A good fruit facial helps relax your skin from deep inside and the proper messaging gives it a rosy glow by increasing blood circulation imparting your face with a luminous glow. These are even better because they are natural and chemical free unlike the artificial facial...
This tutorial will show you how to change the transmission fluid on a Honda TRX 450R
Here I will be making a chocolate zebra cake. Here are the ingredients: 3 free-range eggs
How to make a variety of different pancakes. Simple guide showing you pancake making tips and tricks.
Yup, so I turned them vegan. The full recipe can be found here, or you can watch the video that I made on YouTube. Take a look at the ingredients below the video.
Just in time for Hanukkah! my easy vegan latke recipe (potato pancakes). You can find the full printable recipe here or you can watch me make them on YouTube in the video below. You'll find the ingredient list below the video.
Cool Science Experiment with water and Cooking Oil.
Most of us have conducted an investigatory science project without even knowing it, or at least without knowing that's what it was called. Most science experiments performed, from elementary to high school students and all the way up to professional scientists, are investigatory projects.
Greetings Socialites! Today's Segment is on getting smooth soft lips during these harsh summer months! B. Ryder of Thee New Chic presents a quick and easy trick to getting smoother softer lips using basic items found in your kitchen!
Got an upset stomach or a little heartburn? America's favorite pink pill will cure it right up. But did you know that there's actually metal hiding in those chewable Pepto-Bismol tablets? Yes, metal. Technically, it's a poor metal, but metal's metal, right? Well, we do tend to eat a lot of iron in our diets, because it carries oxygen throughout our bodies, so consuming metallic minerals isn't anything abnormal. But you'd never think that Pepto-Bismol is actually made up of metal.
If you're looking for a curly hairstyle that doesn't use traditional hair rollers, then twist-flex rods is your solution. Flexi-rod curlers allow you to achieve different types of curls, like spiral curls and loose curls, depending on the size of the twistable, flexible rods. This takes some work, but the results are amazing!
Have you ever tried oven-baked cauliflower before? Sprinkled with olive oil and a bit of sea salt, baked cauliflower is juicy, smoky, and makes a delicious side dish. But working with cauliflower can be intimidating, given that when you purchase it from the market it looks like a big chunk of hard white matter.
There's a lot you can do with eggs, but usually cooks use them as ingredients for bigger and better recipes. But in this recipe, the egg takes all the glory! It's called Scotch eggs, and they traditionally consist of a hard-boiled egg, wrapped in sausage and coated with breadcrumbs. Then they're deep-fried and usually served cold.
Kimchi, which means "spicy pickled cabbage," is the national dish of Korea, so for anyone looking for a little Korean cuisine, kimchi is the first recipe you should try. But this video recipe isn't just kimchi, it's kimchijeon (or kimchi jeon), the pancake-like version of spicy pickled cabbage. If you've never tried Korean kimchi pancakes before, you're in for a real treat.
In this video, we learn how to cook absolutely perfect Italian risotto. To start, you should not rinse the rice that you are using. Also, make sure you are using a wide and low pot to let the liquid evaporate evenly. The dish should be prepared according to the seasons, so you have the most fresh spices and vegetables available. Butter and olive oil are traditional to start this dish and should be used to sautŽ the garlic or onions, making sure not to brown either of them. The sixty seconds w...
Summer is the absolute best season to fire up a grill. The weather's like a dream, the sun's up longer than usual, and seafood is at its freshest. If you're dying to eat some fresh seafood this summer but don't know how to go beyond the grilling part, then watch this food video.
Is all that sunbathing you did as a college freshman finally catching up with you? Around your 30s and 40s all the sun damage you have accumulated over your lifetime finally starts taking its toll, resulting in a sudden influx of fine and deep lines, sagging skin, and mottled texture.
In order to prepare Vegan Zucchini Cake, you will need the following: non-stick cooking spray, 4 cups of grated zucchini, 2/3 cup of canola oil, 1 mashed banana, 1 1/2 cup unbleached flour, 1 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup of cocoa, 1 cup chocolate chips, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Natasha Levitan demonstrates making a honey vanilla lip balm. Ingredients needed are two tablespoons of petroleum jelly, one eighth of a teaspoon of vitamin E oil, one tablespoon of beeswax granules, one teaspoon of vanilla extract, one teaspoon of honey and a lip balm container, tub style, in which to store the balm after it is made. She starts by putting the beeswax and petroleum jelly into a glass bowl and microwaving it for five minutes, mixing after two and a half minutes. When the mixtu...
According to Gordon Ramsey there are only a few but very important steps to take when cooking a rib eye steak.The first thing to remember is that the tools and seasonings are almost as important as the main dish.You should pick out ingredients that are as fresh as possible such as rosemary,olive oil,salt,pepper,garlic and butter.You can let god quality tools like a knife and griddle do most of your work for you.And lastly you should choose a quality side dish like artichokes to make your rib ...