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How To: Make a coconut peanut sauce

This great coconut peanut sauce goes well with spring rolls, noodles, or over chicken. You will need peanut, almond, or cashew butter, maple syrup, tamari soy sauce, brown rice vinegar, grated ginger root, hot pepper sesame oil, and coconut milk. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a coconut peanut sauce.

How To: Prune ornamental grasses

This how to video teaches you to cut ornamental grasses back in the spring to promote great summer growth. In the summer ornamental grasses look gorgeous, but after the winter these grasses are dry and are a fire hazard. Watch this video and learn how to easily prune your ornamental grasses.

How To: Save heirloom pepper seeds for gardening

Rita Heikenfeld, from AboutEating.com, had a bumper crop of peppers this year. In this how-to video she shows you how to save pepper seeds from one of her garden favorites, the jalapeño. Pepper seeds can easily be dried and stored over the winter to be grown in the spring. They let you save your heirloom seeds for next year.

How To: Plant indoor winter paper whites and amaryllis bulbs

Domino Magazine editor Cynthia Kling shows you the easy way to plant paper whites and amaryllis bulbs. These are bulbs that you plant indoors in the winter and they bloom indoors in the spring. Paper whites and amaryllis bulbs are incredibly ease to plant. You can prop them in dirt, rocks or sand. Stay tuned for more detailed tips on planting paper whites and amaryllis bulbs.

How To: Apply artistic impressionist makeup

Paint up some pretty drama using layers of color and texture. From clothing to the makeup, Impressionism was celebrated on the spring runways by mixing textures and colors to create light and movement. Here, catch up with makeup artist Sylvia Del Orto for the skinny on how to score this gorgeous look.

How To: Make rich and sweet Thai fried bananas

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.

How To: Create a simple "less is more" flower arrangement

Flower arrangements bring color, life and mood to everyday life or a special occasion and the best part is you can make these bouquets yourself. The flower god will show you some of the ideas and an example using sunflowers for balanced table centerpieces. You will want to choose a main flower and several supporting pieces of foliage and flowers to increase depth and interest to your spread. The meaning concept is balance and accent. This video shows a minimalist, three vase approach for a ch...

How To: Create your own water bottle holder

The card stock used is a celery card stock that is 2 by 7 and 3/4. You then fold the ends of the card 2 inches into the card on both sides. So now it should look like two 2 inch squares on the ends that are folded and then a rectangle in the middle. The designer paper used measures 3 and a 1/4 by 1 and 7/8 inches. To make the decoration on top you use the paper punch that punches a 1 and 1/4 inch circle in the paper and then you use the scallop punch around the area of that same punched out h...

How To: Put together a fall flower arrangement with roses

The flower god demonstrates how to arrange a beautiful rose arrangement for your fall table. A dozen yellow roses, greenery and safflower are used to construct this masterpiece. To begin you need a vase filled with fresh clean water. The flower god shows how to lace the stems of the greenery in and out of one another. The laced stems are then placed in vase and eucalyptus is placed throughout vase giving a cascading effect. Next it is time to prepare the roses. Thorns need to be removed off t...

How To: Cut back ornamental grass

Adrian Higgins is the extraordinary garden writer for the Washington Post and shares with us his tip for cutting back ornamental grass. Spring is late in Washington this year which is good because we haven't gotten around to cutting back our grasses. This is a vital late winter chore because if it isn't done before new growth emerges, cutting could damage the new growth. Different people have different techniques depending on the grass and tool. Adrian doesn't like to use pruners for this tas...

How To: Make a fondant butterfly for cake decorating

Cake decorating is truly an art, and the more skills you have, the better an artist you become. This how-to illustrates how to make a fondant butterfly for your special cake. The process isn't hard at all and you'll be able to apply the knowledge to other things you may like to create. Butterflies will abound as you get up to speed and decorate your cake bringing spring to that special someone. Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee, check out the video and you'll clearly see!

How To: Make Italian timpano baked pasta pie

In this video, we learn how to make timpano. First, you will need meatballs, sausages, chicken, cheese, peas, pasta, and vegetables. You can prepare the dough yourself or you can purchase it from the grocery store if you don't have time. Place the dough into a large spring form pan, then prepare your meats. First, layer penne pasta into the bottom, then layer chicken breast in slices on top of that. After this, place on meatballs and frozen green peas. On top of this, add on cut up sausages, ...

How To: Pick a padlock and understand how it works

When picking a padlock, the only part you need to worry about is the part where the key goes into the lock. The locking mechanism has pins attached to springs. The key pins are on the bottom and the driver pins are on the top. The key turns when the pins of different heights are separated, flush and aligned. Stick a tension wrench into the keyway and put pressure on it. Take a pick to push the rest of the pins up until they are flush with the shear line. Stick the tension wrench into the bott...