The peanut butter and jelly sandwich has officially left the building. When you eat this every other day in elementary school, you've sort of reached your limit. The thing is, peanut butter itself is delicious and quite versatile if used in the right way. Let's explore this kitchen cabinet staple and showcase it via the three dinner courses.
Ramen has always been a go-to meal for frugal foodies, college students, and anyone else who loves a soothing, cheap, and easy meal. And while instant ramen is delicious (and can easily be improved), making a simple homemade ramen is even better, and nearly as easy.
One of the down-sides of international long-haul travel is layovers between flights in unfamiliar places. We have a flight to Europe this year via Guangzhou, China, and I've been putting together my notes on how to make the best use of 7 hours between flights, which I'd like to share.
In this video, we learn how to understand circuit bending. Circuit bending is noodling around with circuitry to see how it sounds and get different noises out of it. When you go into a motherboard and see the circuits that are inside of it, these can make noise if you re-circuit them. This can help you be creative and turn the electronic circuit board into a canvas. This can let someone immediately create something out of this and use it as an art form. It takes trial and error to find someth...
The great thing about Thai food is that it's both good tasting and good for you. With ample amounts of spices like tumeric, cumin, red pepper flakes, and garlic, Thai food is choc full of antioxidants. And nowhere will you find more of these youth-promoting chemicals than in Thai curry.
Easy Cook Videos demonstrates how to make chicken chow mein in under five minutes. First, add oil to the skillet and heat it up on a stove. Next, add a teaspoon of minced garlic, a teaspoon of minced ginger and a teaspoon of thai green paste. Stir it up in the skillet. Then, add a handful of chopped cooked chicken and stir fry vegetables. Toss the ingredients together. Then, add a package of already cooked noodles. Add soy sauce and chile sauce to the ingredients. Toss the ingredients togethe...
Lasagna is probably one of the most versatile Italian dishes you can make. You can make it with meat or without, add your own vegetables to your taste, and experiment with different flavors of lasagna noodles and spices. Learn how to make a "lazy-man's" lasagna by using store bought sauce and macaroni shells. By blending two flavors of sauces together you can create a more complex authentic lasagna with no effort. This is a simple and filling dish to make on busy weeknights.
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 ...
This mummy-shaped cupcake will be a ka-razy big hit on your Halloween buffet table. Flat, noodle-like layers of icing create a bandaged mummy effect, while an assortment of blue and red candies mimic the mummy's creepy eyes and mouth.
In this video, we learn how to make crawfish fettuccine alfredo. You will need: 1/4 c chopped onion, 1 tbsp butter, 8 oz package sliced mushroom, 2 c alfredo sauce, 12 oz peeled crawfish, 1/8 tsp Creole seasoning, and 1 package of cooked fettuccine. First, pour 2 tbsp olive oil into a saucepan and with the butter and onion. Saute the onion until tender, then add in whipping cream and stir in Romano cheese. Whisk until blended and melted, then saute your mushrooms in a skillet with oil. After ...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make Thai chicken lo mein. First, add in 1/4 c chicken stock, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tbsp oyster sauce, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp corn starch to a bowl. Mix this together, then set aside. Heat up a skillet and add in cooking oil with chopped garlic. SautŽ the garlic until fragrant, then add in your chicken and cook for several minutes until finished. After this, add in your vegetable and continue to sautŽ. Now, add in the sauce and stir wit in the dish waiting for it t...
The Node Window is a workspace or desktop for compositing. This clip covers all the mouse and hot keys you use for navigating around and in that workspace and discusses how to add/delete/move nodes, pan/zoom/autozoom the window.
Smell that? That's the smell of this next tasty food tutorial. In this video, you'll be finding out one way, out of many, to make a delicious dish known as pho soup. It's a Vietnamese soup that contains some great ingredients, including beef, noodles, basil, lima beans, and much more. The great thing about pho, is that you can customize it whichever way you want. So good luck and enjoy!
Baked ziti is the ultimate comfort food. You get it all, cheese, sauce, yummy noodles, and no matter who you serve it to, they will love it. In this tutorial, learn how to make this perfectly delicious dish in your home oven. You can serve this for your family, at a party, or even make it for yourself and save the left overs!
In order to prepare an easy Lasagna, you will need the following ingredients: oven ready lasagna noodles, mozzarella, cheddar cheese, tomato sauce, and ground hamburger.
In this video, Eugene shows us how to make Ramen. You will need Ramen, onion, carrots, green onions, soup powder and an egg. First, take a pan with boiling water and place your three vegetables into it. After this, place your Ramen into the pan and make sure it's completely soaked. Now you can place your soup base and flakes into the soup! Now, stir everything together in the pot until the soup base is well mixed in. Let this boil for around 3 minutes or until the noodles are soft. After 3 mi...
In this video, we learn how to make fresh marinara sauce with Patrick. First, grab some tomatoes (any type you like), chili peppers, garlic and olive oil. In a hot skillet, pour in some olive oil with chopped garlic and let it heat up. Then, add in some chili and cayenne pepper if you like some heat. Let this simmer while your pot of water is boiling for your pasta. Once the pot of water starts boiling, add in your chopped tomatoes and peppers to the garlic and olive oil. Throw in some basil ...
Shrimps can be easily stir-fried and watching this video will tell you exactly how to do it the easy way. 1 pound of raw, washed and deveined shrimps are used for this recipe which is marinated in 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon cornstarch and 1 teaspoon salt. For the sauce, combine 1 tbsp paprika or hot sauce, 1/3 cup of water or stock, 3 tbsp ketchup, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp red vinegar, 2 tsp sesame oil and 2 tsp sugar in a bowl and mix well. Heat a pan and add 2 tbsp of cooking oil ...
This video demonstrates how to make Sloppy Joes for the trail. For this recipe, you will need the following: dehydrated hamburger, water, McCormack Sloppy Joe Mix, dehydrated tomato powder, and
An introduction to a popular and delicious Filipino saucy pork and rice noodle dish demonstrated by a friendly authentic chef. For the more experienced and adventurous cook who is curious about Filipino cuisine. This video might be best viewed with a print out of the recipe at hand since it will help identify the exotic ingredients shown such as annatto and shrimp cake. At the beginning each ingredient is introduced so that the home chef may gather everything required and follow along. Clear,...
How to make some delicious and creamy fettuccine alfredo. Ever try and make some that just doesn't turn out quite right? Well here we show you how to make it with perfection. You will need, Fettuccine noodles, cook these to 'al dente' which means soft and fully cooked. Also, you will need heavy cream, milk, parmesan cheese, ground black pepper, shredded Romano cheese, egg yokes, and salt. Bacon is optional, and if you use it, make sure it is fully cooked. Watch the video to observe how to pro...
No need to go out, or order in from your local Chinese restaurant. This video shows you how to make the delicious traditional Chinese dish, chow mein. Yummy noodles, perfectly cooked and perfectly paired and use choose. It could be shrimp, chicken, or vegetables, whatever your heart desires to eat. Cooked to perfection on a frying pan or wok, this recipe is great for a self made stay at home meal. No more ordering you'll master this great delicious Chinese meal after watching this video. Dont...
Panlasang Pinoy shows how to make lasagna using these ingredients: lasagna, ground beef, crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, ground black pepper, onions, crushed garlic, Italian seasoning, crushed garlic, fresh parsley, fresh basil, sugar, salt, egg, and water. The video shows him cooking the lasagna in water and then combining ingredients to make a meat sauce and the ricotta cheese mixture. He layers the sauce, the lasagna noodles...
If you're a mother looking for a slight break from the kitchen and you have a craving for lasagna tonight, then you may want to show your husband this video. A male narrator goes through the steps of how to cook lasagna in a less than two minute instructional video. He starts with the browning of the meat, the straining and cooling of the noodles, and the preparation of the dish for the oven. While the inexperienced cook may have some questions regarding how to best cook the meat and put it i...
Corinne Trang, author of Noodles Every Day, explains that contrary to popular belief, fish sauce doesn't last forever. As soon as you open the bottle, the air gets to it and it starts fermenting again.
Hak5 isn't your ordinary tech show. It's hacking in the old-school sense, covering everything from network security, open source and forensics, to DIY modding and the homebrew scene. Damn the warranties, it's time to Trust your Technolust. In this episode, see how to secure remote desktop.
In this episode of Paula's Best Dishes, with guest Cheryl Day, celebrity chef Paula Deen shares her recipe for Lots O'Meat Lasagna. If you and your family love a meaty pasta, this is definitely going to be a winning recipe in your house. And if you want to be just like Paula Deen, you can make some garlic bread and turn that slice of lasagna into a lasagna sandwich! Ingredients:
Learn how to make this amazing stir fry. It only takes a few simple steps. Follow along with this Asian cooking how-to video to learn how to make stir fry chicken with sugar snap peas and red peppers. This chicken dish is a tasty and healthy way to incorporate veggies into an recipe. The ingredients you'll need to make this chicken stir fry are: chicken breasts, stir fry oil, red pepper, sugar snap peas, chicken broth, soy sauce, and cornstarch. Serve with fried rice, white rice or even noodles.
Forget the Chinese takeout tonight. This cooking how-to video shows you how to make an old Chinese favorite, sweet and sour chicken. Watch this video cooking lesson to learn how to make this chicken dish that is sure to delight your taste bud with the sweet and sour flavors. Serve this Chinese inspire dish over cooked ramen noodles.
These California spring rolls are fast, beautiful, and perfect for the summer, when you just don’t want go anywhere near the stove. These rice paper wrappers are found in any store that sells dry Asian noodles, which is every large grocery store. You’ve never seen them because you’ve never looked for them; they’re on the bottom shelf. You will need spring roll wrappers (aka rice paper rolls), imitation crab (flake style), avocado, cabbage and red leaf lettuce.
If you're gluten-free, on a diet, or just cutting the carbs like me, eating a sandwich can be a dangerous game. There are traditional alternatives such as lettuce or egg wraps, but they have their drawbacks: they can't hold as many ingredients, they can be lack flavor when raw and un-rendered, and it's hard to layer the toppings and condiments to create your perfect bite.
Add 1 Tablespoon chicken bouillon to the cold water in the pot. You may also add herbs/spices if you wish.
In this cooking class on video, learn how to make a delicious Spanish chicken noodle soup. Our expert will walk you through this recipe with step-by-step instructions.
The headline above may have some spice addicts shaking their heads, but, believe it or not, there are people out there who either don't like or can't handle a ton of spice.
There's nothing worse than biting excitedly into your indulgent restaurant-style burger only to find a soggy mess of a bun on your plate. The conundrum of keeping a patty moist but bun dry has perplexed home cooks and chefs alike, and even top burger joints are guilty of soggy-bun syndrome.
Everything you thought you knew about cooking pasta is wrong. When I took cooking classes in Italy, they taught me to bring a large volume of salted water to a rolling boil, add a drop of olive oil so that the noodles wouldn't stick together, and wait several minutes until it was al dente (which literally means "to the tooth," i.e., firm and not mushy when bitten).
Greasy bacon is so delicious, but when it's too delicious it can be soggy, a heart attack just waiting to happy, or merely not as good as a less greasy, more crispy taste. But what if you don't have an oven or stove? How do you make crispy bacon without the mess? The microwave. Yes, believe it or not. Make crispy bacon in your microwave in just a few minutes without the greasy mess.
Yearning to know the secret behind a great homemade sandwich? This video claims they know how. If your growling stomach sounds like a caged animal, you can satiate that ravenous beast without having to scrub a bunch of pots and pans afterwards.
Some Chinese dishes that sound healthy are surprisingly fat-laden. These tips will help you avoid diet land mines.
A perfect, green lawn and colorful flower garden are worth your time and effort. Don't let weeds ruin your hard work.
