How To: The Secret to Quick & Easy Italian Dinners Is Instant Ramen
Instant ramen makes me nostalgic for my college days, when a bowl of this cheap noodle soup was my go-to comfort food for many all-nighters.
Instant ramen makes me nostalgic for my college days, when a bowl of this cheap noodle soup was my go-to comfort food for many all-nighters.
Pickles come in all shapes, sizes, and names (gherkins in the UK, cornichons in France). There are even crazy flavors such as koolickles—dill pickles soaked in a mixture of Kool-Aid and brine, an American South favorite. Whatever sort of pickle tickles your fancy, you can count on one thing: there's always leftover juice once they've been eaten and enjoyed.
Home cooks are often quite intimidated when trying to reproduce the delicious ethnic dishes they enjoy at various restaurants. Thankfully, there are definite flavor profiles and spice/seasoning/herb combos that are very specific to various regional cuisines and cultures; with a little guidance, you can create dishes that are tasty homages to the cuisines you love to eat. In this two-part article (second part here), I'll cover both categories and sub-categories of some of the most popular ethn...
Most cooks know they should stir pasta a few times while it's cooking, for obvious reasons: as the noodles cook, they release a glue-like starch that makes them stick to one another. Stirring prevents them from clumping together in an unwieldy, inedible mass. Now Mark Bittman in The New York Times discusses a great technique from Italy that helps you produce a plate of tender, toothsome pasta evenly coated in rich sauce every time, but it involves stirring the pasta at the end of its cooking ...
Enough with zoodles (zucchini noodles), spaghetti squash, and carrot 'pasta' spirals. A well-prepared dish of zoodles with sauce is beautiful and tasty, but let's get real, it doesn't fill you up. If you use it as a meal replacement, then you'll be hungry about 30 minutes later.
In this tutorial, learn how to make a divine, delicious dry cherry and cranberry compote. This recipe is a little bit sweeter than normal cranberry sauce and can even be served as a dessert. This is a yummy recipe that is great year round, but will make an extra special addition to a holiday table.
While sauces and relishes get a bad rap, if the ingredients are raw, all the nutrients are present, and pickled condiments can still have enzymes that will help digest food. This video cooking tutorial shows how to make a simple sweet pepper relish. You will need bell peppers, jalapeno, salt, sugar, and apple cider vinegar.
In this how to video Chef Jean-Pierre's garlic puree is a great flavor enhancer for any recipe requiring garlic. Use it as you would use minced raw garlic in pasta sauces, salsa, stews, stir fry etc. Be sure to refrigerate it, or freeze it, in a tightly sealed container.
In this how to video Chef Jean Pierre's shares his recipe for pesto. Pesto is very versatile sauce and should be made to taste. Most basil pesto recipes call for pine nuts, but you can easily substitute walnuts, almonds, or any other nuts you may prefer. Be creative! The best thing is you can freeze it, so it is available whenever you need it.
A gastrique is a classic French sauce made with a reduction of fruit and vinegar. This black currant and balsamic gastrique goes well with any meat.
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.
This fruity salsa blends the sweet taste of pineapples with spicy vegetables. Enjoy it with corn chips or over chicken or fish. You will need cilantro, garlic gloves, white onion, red pepper, jalapeno pepper, juice of a lemon, salt and pepper, for an execellent twist on a traditional Mexican sauce.
in this tutorial, we learn how to make hot wings. First, wash two lbs of chicken wings, then sprinkle with salt and barbecue seasoning. After this, mix the chicken up so they get evenly coated. Now, place the chicken onto a baking pan and bake at 425 degrees for 45 minutes - one hour. While these are cooking, place 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tbsp vinegar into a wok over medium heat. Then, add in 1 tbsp Chinese hot mustard and 1/4 c soy sauce. Mix this together and then add in as much hot sauce as you...
In this video from Betty's Kitchen, learn how to make a delicious low-calorie vinaigrette for your salads. This tangy dressing has just a hint of raspberry sweetness and contains no oil so you can avoid all the fat and calories that oils bring. It tastes great and will keep for weeks, possibly even months, in your fridge. Enjoy!
This HowTo video is a cooking demonstration that is loaded with fresh veggies, mixed with a Thai yellow curry sauce and served over shell pasta. This recipe is ready in just 10 minutes with this easy to follow recipe. All the ingredients your need for this Thai dish are: cooking oil, red pepper, green pepper, zucchini, squash, onions, baby corn, asparagus and Gourmet Curry Simple Yellow Curry ( or your favorite yellow curry sauce).
Got a hang over? Try the Bloody Mary. This drink can have more kick than the wake-up juice in Back to the Future III. You will need vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and a celery stick. Learn how to make this brunchtime classic cocktail, the Bloody Mary, by watching this video beverage-making tutorial.
Snapper grenobloise is a great way to prepare fish. Once you've tried it, I am sure it will also your favorite snapper recipes. Red snapper lightly battered, sautéed to a light golden brown, and smothered with a lemon butter sauce with capers. Watch this how to video to learn how to prepare this fish recipe.
This how to video shows you how to cook a peppercorn steak. It is a five-star recipe for New York Strip steak with an incredible cream sauce cooked with green peppercorns, onions, shallots, butter, and cognac. The green peppercorns, combined with cognac, adds an exceptional flavor to this savory sauce. This peppercorn steak recipe is sure to become a favorite!
Watch this video tutorial on Ya-hon cooking and learn how to make this delicious Cambodian dish. Ingredients:
Yum is right. While you may not have the time or dedication to make this succulent dish every night, it certainly is a treat for special occasions (and a GREAT substitute for Taco Tuesdays).
Fruit compote is a delicious way to dress up ice cream or angel food cake. Learn how to make a simple apple and pear compote, and then reduce the wine sauce to syrup.
Learn how to make Laotian stir fry chicken with oyster sauce.
Watch this video to learn how to make a Chinese stir fry of noodles with ham. Let master chef Kai show you how to cook delicious Chinese dishes. All you need for this recipe is: egg noodles, ham, celery, mushrooms, oyster sauce, soy sauce, garlic, sugar and sesame oil.
Watch this cooking video tutorial so you can learn to make Chinese black bean ribs. You can find this dish in Chinese Dim sum restaurants everywhere. You will need spare ribs, salt, sugar, cornstarch, garlic, black beans, soy sauce, sesame oil, and oyster sauce.
Move over buffalo wings, here comes Thai spicy wings. This chicken recipe is easy to make at home. You will need garlic, sugar, ginger, vinegar, oyster sauce, chili sauce, chicken wings, and cooking oil. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to prepare spicy chicken wings with Thai chef Kai.
If you are afraid to cook fish, this is this demo for you! This has to be the easiest “gourmet” method for fish you have ever seen. This will work for any thin, flaky white fish fillets, but Sole is the traditional choice.We topped the fish with is a simple lemon, caper butter sauce. Chef John will also demo this on the site and you would be well-served to learn this classic and versatile sauce.
Watch this how to video and learn how to filet and grill a whole fish. Prepare the fish by stuffing it with herbs and serving it with a sauce provencal. This French inspired grilled fish recipe is sure to impress all you friends.
Louis Ortiz shows you a classic French sauce and beurre blanc sauce. These are real nice rich butter sauces that go really well on seafoods,chicken and a multitude of other dishes.
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.
Tired of the same-old salmon dish? Rich Vellante, executive chef at
In this tutorial, we learn how to make black pepper chicken. For the sauce, you will need: 1/2 c oyster sauce, 2 tsp thick soy sauce, 2 tsp sherry, 1 tsp white pepper, and 2 tsp black pepper. For the chicken, you will need: 3 boneless chicken breasts, 1/2 tsp garlic salt, 1/2 large red bell pepper, 1/2 large green bell pepper, 2 green onion stalks, and 2 tbsp peanut oil. First, remove the fat from the chicken and cut into pieces. Then, sprinkle with garlic salt and set aside. Now, remove the ...
This video demonstrates how to prepare Gumbo with a Louisiana flare. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of butter, 1 cup of chicken broth, 1 can of tomato sauce, 1 – 16 oz. can of crushed tomatoes, 3 stalks of celery (finely chopped), ½ of a bell pepper (finely chopped), ½ of a red pepper (finely chopped), 10 oz. of frozen okra, 1 onion (finely chopped), 1 ½ tsp of garlic powder, 1/3 bunch parsley chopped, 2 lbs. of shrimp, 2 cans crabmeat, 1 lb. s...
Make something easy that the kids will love too with this wonderful recipe for lemon chicken in garlic & herb butter sauce. Take your family dinners to new levels with help from this video.
Learn how to make delicious chicken stew in simple and easy steps. You will need 2 spoonful of butter, a spoon of garlic oil, a cup chopped carrots, 2 cubed potatoes, 2 stock of celery, 1 chopped onion, garlic, pepper, salt, hot pepper sauce, Tabasco sauce, roasted chicken, a can of pinto beans, red beans, southern ranch beans, Italian stewed tomatoes, chicken broth and water. 1. First melt the butter in a soup pot, then add garlic oil, carrots, potatoes and cook with its lid closed for 5 min...
Sue McMahon, Cookery Editor of Woman's Weekly in the U.K., demonstrates this delicious pasta dish. The ingredients that go into this dish are spiral pasta that has been cooked, a chopped onion, some ground meat, celery, a small amount of flour, a can of chopped tomatoes, a stock cube, Worcestershire sauce, and some salt and pepper. Cook the onion in a little oil for several minutes. Then add the meat, breaking it up and cooking until it starts to turn brown. Add in the celery, the flour, the ...
Spicy adidas is a Filipino dish using fried chicken feet and black beans. This video will demonstrate how to cook, combine and season all the ingredients to make some really Filipino cuisine. Chicken feet might seem a little out of the normal ingredient range for some people but just about anything is good fried, so grab some feet and start cooking.
Learn how to prepare coq au vin in the slow cooker and impress your friends and family! In 12" skillet, cook bacon on medium heat. Remove with slotted spoon, transfer to 4 1/2 to 6 qt. slow cooker. Pour off all but 1 Tbs. fat from skillet; add chicken, and brown on med-high. Pour off fat.
Enchiladas are a Mexican staple that can be made with chicken, beef, or cheese. This easy recipe makes a tasty and satisfying meal.
You don't need to trek to your favorite trattoria to enjoy these – whip up a batch at home! Learn how to make mozzarella sticks from scratch at home with this Howcast guide.
Watch Tracy cook some authentic Jamaican Jerk Chicken. Ingredients for Jamaican jerk chicken: