It's not just the sauce that makes the steak, it's the rub you put on the meat as well. To make the perfect rancher's rub, you need: 1/2 cup ancho chili powder (or pure chili powder), 1/2 cup mild paprika, 1/4 cup kosher salt, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper. Grill a ribeye steak with a traditional rancher's rub.
This recipe yields 30 jiaozi with a variety of sauces, so it's the perfect party dish. You will need: 1/2 cup crab meat, 1 cup grated green cabbage, 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 2 tablespoons cilantro, 1 tablespoon sweet chili paste, 1 package wonton wrappers, 2 lightly beaten eggs and one box of corn starch. Make jiaozi dumplings out of crab meat.
This is a perfect, vegetarian, light breakfast dish. You will need six eggs, 2 tablespoons heavy cream, 1 tablespoon butter, sea salt, chive flowers, roughly torn spinach and 2 tablespoons goat cheese. Serve with fresh orange juice, coffe and toast! Make creamy scrambled eggs with goat cheese and spinach.
Perfect for an elegant dinner party, or just a romantic night in. Even if you've never cooked lobster before, this tutorial makes it easy. Stuff it with lobster, crab, shrimp and scallops and then bake it with butter and lemon. Make a delicious baked stuffed lobster.
The centerpiece of this salad are pears poached in red wine, cloves and allspice. Add frisee greens, toasted walnuts and gorgonzola cheese to round out the flavors. This salad is a perfect spring dish. Serve before the main course and pair with something light and bubbly. Make a frisee salad with poached pears and gorgonzola cheese.
You'll need a slow cooker or crock pot to make this delicious soup, perfect to serve on cold nights. Use cubed beef and barley, and then add in your favorite vegetables - some good ideas are peas, carrots, celery, potatoes, onions or mushrooms. Use a slow cooker to make a hearty beef and barley soup.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the industry-standard software for perfecting digital images and is ideal for professional photographers, serious amateur photographers, and graphic designers. In this Adobe Photoshop video tutorial, you'll learn how to use medical analysis tools in Photoshop CS4. For comprehensive instructions on using CS4's new medical analysis tools, take a look. Use medical analysis tools in Photoshop CS4 Extended.
Make-up artist Jemma Kidd shows you a regime for perfect skin care to get that flawless skin Get flawless skin.
With a little circuitry, you can find exactly what you need to make a very "cool" USB powered Mini Fridge. Just check out this how-to video. This cooler is perfect for keeping your drinks cool while gaming or at the office. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to build a USB mini fridge. Make a USB mini fridge.
This classic 1949 Kodachrome film, Dating:Do's and Don'ts, will teach boys proper dating etiquette, how to select that perfect girl, how to ask her out, what to do on your date, and most importantly, how to say goodnight! Watch this how to video for some dated but still helpful dating advice. Go on a date with a girl.
Ever wonder how actors get bruises that look so real? Learn how to make these bruises and start your own visual effects for movies. Perfect for beginners or advanced make up artists, create real looking bruises for your next Halloween costume. Make convincing fake bruises.
Learn how to pronounce Thank you and other German phrases. This video was shot on location in Vienna. The geobeats travel site is perfect for both aspiring and practicing adventurers. Speak common German phrases.
People often ask me how I am able to draw so well. I wish I could say I always used to draw like this, but then I would just be lying. I've always loved to draw, but was never really the best. But that didn't stop me. There's an old saying that 'practice makes perfect'. I'm not saying I'm perfect (because I'm definately not), but practice definately made me the artist I am today. So when people ask me what my secret is, my response is always the same: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
So, you want to decrease your hard-boiled egg peeling time because you don't want the time- consuming task to cut into your limited lunch break. Or maybe you've somehow been burdened with the task of cooking a lot of homemade deviled eggs for a big family gathering. How do you peel a hard-boiled egg as quickly and efficiently as possible?
Marital arts master Bruce Lee had his famous one-inch punch technique. He knew that putting all of your weight and energy into one inch of movement had far more power than moving your arm one foot.
Remember—winter is the perfect time to observe! There are a lot of events going on this week, so pull out that observing chair. Here they are:
It's not too late to carve yourself the perfect pumpkin for Halloween. This year, be fully equipped with the know-how on picking out the right pumpkin from the local pumpkin patch, having the right carving tools, tracing a stencil onto the pumpkin before carving, and keeping your pumpkin looking as fresh as possible in time for the night of October 31st. Boo-ya.
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, dates back to over 500 years ago and is still practiced as a highly respected cultural art form in modern-day Japan.
Shoot-em-up games, or shmups, consist of lone or small groups of players shooting at and being shot at by hordes of colorful enemies. The genre is thought to have peaked in the mid-'90s, but recent games in the indie world may be saying otherwise. Geometry Wars and other twin-stick games kicked off the trend, but newbies Trouble Witches NEO, Outland and just-released Gatling Gears have brought some much needed originality into the modern shmup scene—making it something worth exploring again. ...
It's just what the doctor ordered: the perfect hangover cure. A time-proven, age old trick, commonly referred to as the "Hair of the Dog", asserts that downing more alcohol the morning after is scientifically proven to ease a painful hangover—well, for the short term, at least (read more here).
What do you get when you take a run-of-the-mill kitchen knife and add a simple synthesizer circuit? Behold, the Syntheslicer! Creator Jonathan M. Guberman writes:
Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite desserts and of great mystery to me. I've made it with fresh pumpkin and homemade crust. I've made it with canned pumpkin and frozen crust. They came out nearly identical. Yet I've had fluffy, perfect to-die-for pumpkin pie at Los Angeles' widely popular Urth Cafe (which I haven't been able to replicate at home). What's the secret recipe to truly out of the box pumpkin pie?
Upon first glance, one may think Mark Suppes is just another thirty-something-year-old dude living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. However, the Gucci web designer by day has a significant (to say the least) project-in-progress by night. The amateur scientist bicycles to a non-descript building in Brooklyn to chip away at his homemade nuclear fusion reactor. BBC reports:
In the mood for a treat but can’t decide between salty or sweet? Why choose when you can have the best of both worlds? Chocolate covered pretzels are a mouth-watering snack perfect for satisfying even the most wicked cravings. They are a huge hit at parties and get-togethers, and your guests will be impressed you made them yourself (not to mention that store-bought versions can cost a pretty penny!)
With an impressive series of viral music videos to their name, it is no surprise that the latest video from indie rockers OK Go is another hit. The video is directed by James Frost, in collaboration with Syyn Labs, a collective of engineers that work on elaborate art projects. A huge Rube Goldberg machine was built in a warehouse, for a one-take video for the song This Too Shall Pass.
The 2010 Oscars are coming around the corner, and for those who throw an annual Oscar bash, now's the time to plan the menu. Cakespy posts a HowTo for the "Avatart", the perfect Avatar-viewing snack.
Rich chocolate fudge is the perfect cure for a sweet tooth. The best part? You can make a batch of fudge in minutes. Don't forget the walnuts. Chocolate Fudge Recipe - How to Make Chocolate Fudge Video.
Sometimes the demos for Apple's ARKit are so good that it almost looks like magic. A recent demo, in particular, shows exactly what kind of magic tricks you can perform using the ARKit.
Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honeybees and can also be used for your home. Commonly associated with making your own DIY candles, beeswax is the perfect DIY product for making your own lip balm, non-toxic crayons, mustache wax, and more.
Pie and pi lovers rejoice: whether you like eating pies or calculating their area, 3/14 is your day. March 14 is a holiday for both bakers and math nerds: Pi Day, where the day and month correspond to the first three digits of the most famous mathematical constant.
If you are like most people, going to a party or mixer full of complete strangers probably does not sound like your idea of a fun night.
Scrambled eggs may seem like the easiest breakfast dish to whip up in the kitchen, but in order to make them truly perfect, several details in the cooking process are important to keep in mind.
If getting Christmas presents ready ahead of time has never been your forte, be assured that it has never than easier than before to assemble together a last-minute Christmas gift for all your loved ones and favorite people (and maybe not-so-favorite people you are obligated to buy gifts for) on Christmas eve.
The electric air freshener is one of those devices that seems like it could only have one possible function, but can actually be repurposed in a few different ways. If you're looking for a practical use, you can turn it into a bug killer, but it's also perfect for pranks.
Removing a stubborn splinter from your finger or foot is never fun, especially if it involves digging into your skin with a needle or tweezers. But if you use common household or food items around the house, you can remove splinters from your skin very easily and quite painlessly.
The best thing since the creation of bread may just be... sliced bread. Soft bread slices have the perfect absorbent texture for picking up tiny pieces of broken glass, gently cleaning dust off your precious oil paintings, and even safely removing splinters from your finger when soaked with milk and taped to your skin with a bandage.
Is lack of expansive outdoor space the only factor that is preventing you from putting your green thumb to good use? Even if your tiny apartment doesn't come with a balcony or an outdoor patio, you can grow a number of green things within the limited confines of your indoor space for your visual and gustatory pleasure.
This is a simple trick of perfect balance. Seventeen dominoes balance on a single chip. The strategy implores you to be as patient and steady handed as a neurosurgeon.
This video tutorial shows how to make a loose, curly updo inspired by Taylor Swift's music video "Love Story." This hairstyle is fairly quick to make and would be perfect for prom or another formal event.
A classy upgrade to the traditional grilled cheese sandwich, this is perfect for a light lunch. You will need: 30 grape or cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil, sugar, salt, balsamic vinegar, shredded asiago cheese, crumbled goat cheese, focaccia bread and a panini press. Make a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato, goat cheese and asiago.
