To some, SCRABBLE is just a board game to play during family game night or during a casual get-together. Others think of SCRABBLE as a mere hobby. But with any activity, there will always be fanatics—the ones who would rather sell their soul than stop—the ones with a constant yearning for self-improvement—the merciless.
If we were to assign a theme for the 2019 edition of the Next Reality 30 (NR30), it might be something along the lines of, "What have you done for me lately?"
Will the predicted apocalyptic date — December 21st, 2012 — really be the end of the world? In this ongoing five-part series, we examine what would happen if zombies, nuclear weapons, cyberwars, earthquakes, or aliens actually destroyed our planet — and how you might survive.
A perfect vegetarian version of a delicious stew! For this recipe, you will need: 1 large chopped onion, 1 large chopped leek, 3 chopped carrots, 1/4 cup olive oil, 4 minced garlic cloves, 14 ounces diced tomatoes, 4 tablespoons tomato paste, 3/4 pound white beans, 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar + 1/2 cup water (or 1 cup dry white wine), thyme, vegetable stock, 1 cup breadcrumbs and 1 sliced baguette. Make a delicious vegetarian cassoulet stew.
How about a change from the same old boring chicken breast for dinner? Laura Raposa will show you how to make this scrumptious stewed fava beans dish. It's not only delicious, but it's healthy too! Just follow along as Laura guides you through each step of the way. Pretty soon your family will be screaming for more fava beans!
A tantalizing combination of a number of different tastes from the sea. This fish stew adds an Italian twist to a traditional dish known the whole world over. Make Italian fish stew.
Bill Granger combines pumpkin and chickpeas in a colorful and delicious vegetarian dish, fantastically simple to make. Prepare aromatic pumpkin and chickpea stew.
Julia Child and guest demonstrate how to make this Alsacian specialty, a casserole made with humble cuts of lamb, pork, beef, simmered with potatoes and onions. This is a peasant dish and was traditionally cooked in a community setting. Make Bacheofe-Alsacian meat stew.
What's a cataplana? It's a delicious Portuguese dish and the cookware it's made in, shaped like a clam. So make sure you have a cataplana before you try out this recipe for Portuguese cataplana. It's super tasty, with lisbon sauce, stew, and seafood!
If you're not sure what ciambotta is (sometimes spelled giambotta), you have to try out this delicious homemade Italian recipe. Ciambotta is a typical southern Italian cuisine, essentially a stew, that is perfect with only vegetables (no meat required!).
Forget clam chowder— dig into delicious oyster stew, a New England classic dish! And in this recipe video, Steve Slazinik of Turner's Seafood Grill & Market shows you how they make this oyster favorite.
There's nothing that can warm you up better during a very chilly, snowy December night than a steaming hot bowl of soup. Give your Campbell's chicken noodle soup a rest tonight and instead prepare this simple Italian dish called zuppa di pesce. Made from many types of sea creatures, including lobster and shrimp, it's savory and warming.
Sinigang or Pinoy stew is one of the most famous and favorite meals among the Filipinos. It's also one of the most easiest to cook. Also, there are many ways to cook it, only the ingredients varies. The following tutorial is the most simplest form of cooking sinigang. This is my version of what is called sinigang na bangus.
Chef Jasper White demonstrates how to make New England fish chowder. A flavorful fish stew that makes a hearty meal. Make New England fish chowder.
My husband is Arab, and this dish is one of his Mom's most popular dishes. She stuffed cucumbers with rice and ground meat, and we finished it by simmering it in tomato sauce on the stove top for an hour and a half. That was soooo delicious.
This is one of my favorite recipes. Since kare kare is almost always joked as a poorman's stew (your rich before you cook it and you become a poor man when you eat it), this take of the sumptously ox tail, tripe and meat kare-kare really makes you love the dish without drying your wallets dry...
A tasty and light stew to warm you up on cold days. One for the fish lovers. A preparation time of 15 minutes and cooking time 2 hours and 30 minutes. Make salt cod with chick peas.
"Sudoku art that's good enough to eat", says Colordoku, the creator of this both yummy & clever Sudoku pizza.
Is it a tajine? A casserole? A stew? Waz and Lenny make their version of a classic Moroccan dish, accompanied by cous cous. Follow along in this cooking how-to video and learn the recipe for Moroccan tajine. All the ingredients you need for tajine are: onions, olive oil, lemon rind, red chili, beef, coriander seeds, olives, bay leaves and cloves. Make Moroccan tajine with beef.
If you're a musician in need of some lessons, there's no better way to learn than with MusicRadar's so-called "Tuition" instructions. Although the title tuition is misleading, this video class is anything but costly, because it's free, right here. Whether you're looking for help with your voice, bass, electric guitar, drums, guitar effects, piano, Logic Pro or production techniques, Music Radar is here to show you the way.
Tight budgets mean cheap food, and there's nothing cheaper than beans and rice, but you don't have to sacrifice taste and quality to eat on the cheap. Adding some vegetables like onions and peppers adds a great deal to an otherwise bland dish.
While crockpots are commonly used for making soups and stews or for slow-cooking meats, they are also surprisingly useful for making other foods that you may not associate with a slow cooker, such as brownies, bread, cheesecake, fruit butters, and even yogurt.
Oatmeal may not be the most exciting breakfast option in the world, but in uncooked form the oats can be used to neutralize odors in your refrigerator, relieve your dog's itchy skin, soak up kitchen oil spills and treat your poison ivy or chicken pox itch.
Sick of using potatoes as side dishes for your dinner meal? Left in their uncooked form, raw potatoes have a variety of weirdly practical uses, from aiding you in removing a broken light bulb from its fixture to keeping your ski goggles clear in the cold weather. A raw potato can also help with your floral arrangement, add new life to your beat-up shoes, and absorb the excess salt from your overly salted soup and stews.
Reading tab is a great way to learn the next step while you learn how to play the guitar. If yo feel you're ready to take it to a higher level but you don't want to read traditional sheet music, tab can get you started in that vein while still showing you all the details you need to play your songs. This video from Peter Vogl of Free Guitar Videos will teach you how to read tab. Read guitar tabs with Peter Vogl.
This simple meal is dedicated to all food lovers around the world and to all the Filipino diehard fans of "dinuguan"—otherwise known as pork blood stew, blood pudding stew, and even chocolate meat. I don't know where this recipe originated, but I would like to thank my girlfriend's mom for teaching me how to cook this.
Anti-graffiti councilman Peter Vallone Jr. has previously helped push through laws restricting the sale of spray-paint cans and broad-tipped markers. He now seeks to get fat caps banned.
Before he did Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson made splatter films...
Kimchi can be spelled in a variety of ways (gimchi, kimchee, kim tee), but what is it exactly? It's a Korean pickled dish made with vegetables and varied seasonings, and it's the most common side dish in South Korea. In this video tutorial, you'll gain the recipe for making kimchi with cabbage, sea salt, mustard greens, garlic, and other great ingredients. See how to make it!
Some recipes only want egg whites, while other recipes call only for yolks. But how to separate them? You can do it easily enough just in the eggshells themselves! Watch as experienced baker Peter Davis shows you two techniques for easily separating eggs. Separate the egg white from the yolk easily.
Oat bran has the ability to lower cholesterol plus it contains fiber, iron, calcium, and trace minerals, vitamins A, E, & K and several of the B vitamins. Here's the nutritional lowdown. But really, how many bowls of oat bran can you eat every day? Luckily it can be added to lots of the foods you already eat without changing flavor or even texture. Here's how:
Ever wonder what your brain looks like on video games? Below, Matt Richtel of the New York Times lies in a $3 million M.R.I. scanning tube while playing a simple driving game, as researchers sit by and observe the real-time images inside Richtel's brain.
Here's another jewel from Serious Eats series, The Nasty Bits: yummy cow tongue, complete with that lovely texture we all know so well. Though most us likely have a negative visceral reaction to the idea of tongue, Serious Eats make a compelling argument that it is actually one of the tastiest bits of the animal.
Sometimes the "nasty bits" are unexpectedly yummy. With a reputation for being both cheap and reliably good, Chichi Wang of Serious Eats describes chicken's feet:
After the turkey is carved and the leftover meat is refrigerated, don't get rid of the remaining carcass and bones just yet. You can make some delicious turkey stock with them. Just add them to a big pot of carrots, celery, onion, and water — then simmer.
Our new pal Peter Svejgaard sent in these great pics of him and his friends doing the best kind of parkour -the lazy kind- yesterday in Odense, Denmark. Check out their album for more.
Inject life into your landscapes Beautiful, sweeping landscapes are great, but sometimes they run the risk of being cold and distant. You look at that picture a month later and think, "meh."
Harlem / The Black Apples / Audacity @ The Echo ($10) Here's your chance to check out Harlem before they begin their tour with the Dead Weather.
Professional finisher Peter Gedrys details how to mix clear furniture wax with dry pigments and artist's oil colors to create decorative finishes, man-made patinas, and color-matched protective finishes for furniture. Gedrys provides three recipes for making colored wax and shows off various mixing techniques. Mix and apply wax when finishing furniture.
Peter Shwagger shows how to clean suede shoes properly. Video explains suede as a material and why it reacts the wasy it does to different sprays. Cleaning tips are as easy a brushing the shoes and spraying with a cleaner. Easy-to-understand video. Clean suede shoes properly.
