How To: Pack nutritious lunches your kids will eat
Does your child always come home with a full lunch box? Most likely they don't like what you've been packing. Give your children’s brown bag lunch a healthy punch – one they won’t trade away!
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How To: Use basil after the season is over
We next visit the farm, where the real production takes place. They are growing some unusual items. Several herbs, like Shiso or Perilla (Perilla frutescens) are available in green or red varieties. They have a very unique flavor, almost nutty with a touch of citrus and a very aromatic flavor. Jerry uses them to make a green apple shiso ice. And you can use it as a salad green when it's young and actually use the seeds as well. Use the tips in salads and the seeds when they start to form, the...
How To: Make an All-Natural Insect Repellent with Cacao Leaves
Science investigatory projects suck, or at least seem to at first. But you shouldn't let school drag you down. Instead, use your homework assignment as an opportunity to solve a problem you've always been interested in. And it doesn't hurt if the end result is eco-friendly, either.
How To: Apply a Fall-inspired smokey Arabic eye makeup look
Dip into the sultriness of Arabic women with this Fall look that's sure to drop jaws. It's a smokey Arabic-style look with vivid purples and reds. It's the perfect autumn makeup look when wearing dark colors. Watch this video for the step-by-step instructions for applying this eye makeup, and check out the products used below.
How To: Apply a "plum paradise" makeup look (eyes, face and lips)
Are you in the mood for plums? No— not the fruit, but the reddish-purple color that looks great on your face. This makeup tutorial will show you how to enjoy the benefits of the plum color with this "plum paradise" look. Get the step-by-step details by watching the video, and check out the products below.
How To: Keep garden pests and weeds out with natural, organic options and Lowe's
You've worked hard to get your garden in shape— the tilling, the planting, the watering, so when pests and weeds threaten your garden, you'll want to take action. But if you don't want to use chemicals, there are effective organic alternatives. Lowe's has the advice you need for keeping those unwanted enemies out.
How To: Create a princess inspired curly Taylor Swift hairstyle
In Hollywood, not many celebrities embrace either their natural hair color or their natural hair. So starlets who have naturally curly locks (think Nicole Kidman and AnnaLynne McCord) straighten them and starlets with naturally straight locks (think Hayden Panetierre) love curling them up for extra volume.
How To: Hold an acoustic guitar with correct playing posture
In this tutorial, we learn how to hold an acoustic guitar for the right posture while playing. The guitar should fall naturally onto your lap and your right hand should fall across the top. You may want to hold the guitar while hunched over, but you need to sit up with the arm bent so the circulation to your arm doesn't get cut off. You want the arms and body to flow and be natural so you don't tense up and you play beautiful music. The more you play the guitar, the more comfortable you will ...
How To: Make a cucumber, oatmeal & yogurt facial mask at home
What can you do with a cucumber, yogurt, oats and honey? You can make a facial mask which keeps your skin moistened and protected during the summer months.
How To: Get a elegant natural smoky eye look
This tutorial is a great one to watch if you are looking for an elegant but still natural smoky eye look. Start off by taking the eye shadow Grey Stone and applying it all over the lid. Then take the MAC eye shadow called Omega right over the crease, rounding it off at the end. Use the MAC Charcoal Brown eye shadow right on the outer corner of the eye. Then put the NYX dark brown eye shadow on the outer corner, as well brushing it into the outer bottom of the eye. The next step is to take a s...
How To: The 2-Ingredient Chocolate Mousse of Your Dreams
As a self-proclaimed chocoholic, any day with chocolate mousse in it is a good day in my book. And thanks to prominent chemist Hervé This, one of the founding fathers of molecular gastronomy, chocolate mousse is not only easy to make every single day—but only requires two ingredients.
How To: 3 Brilliant Culinary Uses for Bad-Tasting Vodka
In my opinion, vodka gets a lot of undeserved flak. It seems like most people have a bad experience in college with a plastic bottle of vodka and never go back. I can't blame them; it took me a few years after graduating college to start to enjoy vodka again—but now I adore it.
Weird Ingredient Wednesday: Black Sapote (The Chocolate Fruit)
Mother Nature is one creative entity, especially when it comes to fruit. Let's face it: most major supermarkets stock only the most common fruits like apples, pears, and grapes, but they're so basic. Why not explore other options, from the stinky-yet delicious durian to the captivating citrus caviar that is finger limes?
How To: Bake colorful citrus slice cookies
Just because the weather is gloomy outside and Frosty has taken his place outside on your front lawn for a few weeks doesn't mean you can get a taste of the tropics. In fact, citrus fruits come into season during the winter months.
How To: Make key lime custard-filled cupcakes with Wendy Paul
Love key lime pie? Then you'll totally flip over these key lime flavored cupcakes. Key lime flavored cake paired with key lime custard give you (almost) more lime-y goodness than you can handle.
How To: Make adorable root beer float cupcakes in less than 10 minutes
Whoever invented dessert hybrids is our hero. From French toast cupcakes to Coke-flavored ice cream, there's nothing like a little 2 in 1 dessert action to quickly get our sugar fix! Here's yet another dessert hybrid that'll have your tastebuds aching for more: A root beer flavored cupcake, topped with root beer frosting and adorned with a cute little straw to simulate the real drinks.
How To: Make stir-fried Thai tofu with spicy basil
Whether you're a vegetarian or simply a tofu lover, tofu dishes are an excellent and delicious way to get your daily fill of protein minus the fat you'd find in other protein-rich foods like meat. And not to mention that tofu makes for a kick-ass stir fry.
How To: Cook fresh sea bream butterfly style with garlic and olive oil
Sea bream is a type of fish that lives in tropical climates, prefering to live in shallow waters and typically dwelling at the bottom. It's not nearly as easy to find at supermarkets as salmon or tilapia, but it's worth a try because it has such a unique flavor.
How To: Make flavored homemade butter with cilantro and shallots
As Paula Deen has taught us time and time again, butter makes everything taste better, even air. And no dish is done until you've tossed a pound of lard or a stick or two of butter into the mix.
How To: Make Japanese chicken nanban with ginger sauce
Japanese food is so healthy because it gets its flavor from spices and carefully brewed stocks rather than from copious amounts of oil. But that doesn't mean Japanese food doesn't taste good (visit any sushi restaurant and order a tuna roll and you'll literally have a mouthgasm).
How To: Make Moroccan "Zellige" cookie truffles
The Middle East is well known for entrees filled with a deeply marinated, spice-ridden flavor that really sinks in and takes your taste buds for a spin. But Middle Eastern desserts are just as savory, though obviously at the opposite spectrum of flavor.
How To: Make healthy baked crab cakes with Ellie Krieger
Who doesn't want to enjoy a nice big bowl of freshly fried crab cakes on a warm summer's day? These bite-sized shellfish goodies are delicious, sure, but they definitely not as charming on your waistline. If you still want to fit into your bikini without giving up crab cakes entirely, then this is the perfect crab cake recipe for you to make.
How To: Turn Your Wok into a Food Smoker
Woks are good for more than just tossing Friday night's chow mien with beef and broccoli. In fact, you can use a wok to impart a deep and delicious flavor into foods through smoking. But how exactly do you smoke foods using a wok? Watch this video from CHOW to find out.
How To: Make pork fennel burgers with Mark Bittman
Beef burgers are classic, and nothing beats driving to Jack In the Box at 1 AM to devour a triple cheeseburger with bacon because you have the munchies. But burger buns have a sort of open relationship with beef patties. In fact, burger buns can see and wrap around any meat they want.
How To: Make instant noodles on the stove
To make instant noodles you would need a pot, a pair of chopsticks, scissors, napkin and most importantly the right instant noodles that you want. Start by opening the noodle bag using the scissors. Empty the contents by removing the packets of flavoring first. Toss the noodles into the pot and add some water. Place the pot on top of the stove and heat it up to a boiling degree. Once the water would boil, mix in the flavoring for an added taste. Use the chopsticks to stir the contents well un...
How To: Make a simple broccoli stir-fry
Chef Keith Snow demonstrates in this video how to make a quick and healthy recipe using broccoli. Blanched broccoli is used, that is, it is dipped in boiling water to tenderize it. A wok is heated and flavorless pure olive oil is added to it. Finely chopped shallots, ginger and garlic are tossed around in the oil and the heat is turned up. The broccoli is added when the ingredients release their flavor. A pinch of salt and black pepper can be mixed to the wok. A tablespoon of toasted sesame o...
How To: Prepare refreshing "spa-like" drinks with Brooke Burke
When entertaining, it's great to have fun, colorful ideas to make drinks feel special. By adding a simple slice of fruit or vegetable to a glass of water can impress your friends and make you feel like you're at the spa. It is very important to drink water, and flavoring it with lemon makes it easier if you're not a water drinker. The host cuts slices of lemon and lays them on top of the water or the side of the glass to garnish, and squeezes the rest of the juice into the water. It can be ma...
How To: Use lighting for video
Videomaker Associate Editor Tom Skowronski explains how four basic steps can be used to improve the lighting effects for a video and give it a more professional look.
How To: Make a delicious strawberry jello cake
The wonderful tastes of jello and yellow cake combine forces into a dessert that packs a powerful punch of flavor— a jello cake. Using yellow cake mix and a box of jello (any flavor), you can create a wonderful dessert the whole family can enjoy. Plus, it's two desserts in one! What could be better than that?
How To: Cook orange-flavored cod with only three ingredients
Well, with a title like "orange-flavored cod," you've probably already figured out two of the three ingredients for the flavorful fishy meal, which are oranges (four navel oranges) and cod (four cod fillets). What is the last ingredient to this simple Woman's Day Magazine meal? One cup of thinly sliced red onions. See how easy it is!
How To: Make a sheet cake with two different flavors
In this tutorial, learn how to make a dual flavored sheet cake that you can decorate to your heart's desire. This cake is tasty and pleases both chocolate lovers and vanilla fiends alike. If you are looking for a unique way to assemble your dessert, have a look at this clip and make this delicious treat for you next big party. Yum!
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: Cook a tender southwest pork tenderloin
Pork tenderloin is a delicious cut of meat if it is prepared and cooked properly. It's incredibly lean, but takes on a great deal of flavor from proper seasoning. This how-to video features a southwestern pork rub that packs this tenderloin full of flavor. Pork tenderloins are most often sold in packs of two, so this recipe for my southwestern pork tenderloin prepares two tenderloins.
How To: Smoke garlic to add extra flavor to any garlic dish
Johnny O shows how to smoke garlic that adds a great flavor to other dishes. Any recipe that calls to be seasoned with garlic can use the smoked garlic for a new and unexpected taste.
How To: Make a chicken burger
Looking for a great chicken recipe? Then watch this cooking how-to video to as Good Housekeeping shows you three ways to make chicken burgers, all infused with flavor. Cook herb, teriyaki, or barbecue chicken burgers. For the basic chicken burger recipe you will need: ground chicken carrot, minced onions, once clove or garlic. Watch and learn how to make the other flavors.
How To: Make make banana and toffee schnapps at home
This at home beverage-making tutorial shows how to make flavored schnapps, both banana and toffee, out of vodka or any strong, unflavored alcohol. Watch this simple how-to video and never go to the store to buy pre-flavored schnapps again.
How To: Make Persian Pistachio Nougat Flavored with Rose Water
Nougat is a Middle Eastern sweet made out of pistachios and flavored with rose water. Learn how to make this yummy Persian pistachio nougat at home.
How To: Make healthy flavored water
Luci Lock shows you how to prepare a quick, simple and healthy alternative to bottled fruit flavored water.
How To: Make flavorful and simple potato salad
The perfect side dish for a picnic or dinner, potato salad can be flavored in a variety of ways. See how to make a simple potato salad that you can modify with your favorite flavors. Ingredients needed are potatoes, eggs, onion, celery, fresh dill, mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper to taste.
How To: Create a dramatic purple Victoria's Secret Alessandra Ambrosio makeup look
Today on the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show runway you'll definitely see more smoky eyes than you can count. But don't expect to see your run-of-the-mill black and brown smoky eyes. Rather, this year it's all about amazing, dazzling color.