Soda bread, corned beef and cabbage, and colcannon are all great dishes to serve up on St. Patrick's Day, but desserts really let your inner leprechaun come out to play. Not only can you have fun incorporating all kinds of tasty Irish liquors into baked goods, you get to dye things green.
Among the many gifts that Italy has bestowed upon the world, culinary and otherwise, pesto stands alone. The exact birthplace of pesto, that herby sauce made of pine nuts and olive oil, is an area of Italy called Liguria, whose microclimate is particularly kind to basil, one of pesto's key ingredients.
There are a lot of people out there who don't like vegetables, but I would contend that that's because they haven't eaten any really good vegetables. I thought I hated tomatoes (okay, technically a fruit, but used mostly as a vegetable) until I ate some fresh from a garden. One bite of a juicy, ripe heirloom tomato made me realize that I love tomatoes—it's those bland, mealy supermarket tomatoes that I hate.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a vegetarian succotash. To make this, you will need: garlic, onions, green beans, jalapeno pepper, red pepper, diced tomatoes, lima beans, corn, zucchini, cool zucchini, and olive oil. First, heat up the olive oil with some butter in a large pan. Then, saute your chopped onions until they are golden brown. Then, throw in the garlic, red bell pepper, and jalapeno and cook for three minutes. Make sure you have chopped everything up before adding it. Now, a...
Mongolian flank steak starts by making a marinade from one half teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon corn starch, one tablespoon of vegetable oil, one table spoon of soy sauce, one teaspoon of rice wine, and one teaspoon of sesame oil. Stir up the marinade. Cut a three quarter pound flank steak into pieces about one quarter of an inch thick. Put the meat in the marinade and chill it in a refrigerator for one hour. Cut a bunch of green onions into one and a half to two inch pieces. For the sauce, take...
This beauty video demonstrates how to create a St. Patrick's Day makeup look.
This tutorial video will teach you to make Shabu-Shabu. Shabu-Shabu is a Japanese beef hot pot served with porridge.
Indy Mogul Backyard FX is here with an awesome, cheap, special effect build that will have your audience jumping out of their seats. If you're a filmmaker on a budget you've got to watch this video and learn how to make a hole in the chest effect that look exactly like there is a hole in the actor's chest.
If you're using Adobe's Photoshop CS5 and want to change the color of someone's dress in a photo, this tutorial will show you how to do it. This how to is detailed, and shows a step by step guide for going from red to green, blue to yellow, basically any change you want to make! Photoshop is a powerful photo editing tool and with this trick you can choose the color of people's clothing instead of being stuck with what they were actually wearing.
You can make your own organic and earth friendly detox face mask, right at home! All you need is: three to four green seedless grapes (pick organic for best results), some baking soda, a little flour and some filtered water.
This is a straight up green pig castle. Your Angry Birds must be well-paced to take this thing down. Fortunately, this video will show you just where to but your birds to beat level 3-8 of Angry Birds for an iPhone or Android phone.
Summer is one of the best times to get creative with your makeup, especially eyeshadow. And purple eyeshadow is perfect for that summertime, flowery look. This is great for anyone with blue, green, hazel, or brown eyes. Watch to see how to create your own version of this purple summer makeup look using the following eyeshadow products from BIGUINE:
In this clip, you'll learn how to play a medley of four-chord songs on an acoustic guitar. Specifically, you'll learn how to play Jason Mraz' "I'm Yours," Coldplay's "Viva la Vida," Busted's "Year 3000," the Fray's "How to Save a Life," Green Day's "Time of Your Life," Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" and Taylor Swift's "Teardrops on My Guitar."
If you are pulling your clothes out of your high efficiency washer, and find they are soaking wet, you have a problem. There are a couple of easy ways to help fix this problem, before calling in a professional.
The esteemed tradition of Chinese watercolor goes back thousands of years and hasn't changed much in terms of composition, subject matter, and materials used. So back then as much as today sky dieties and kings would sip green tea outside pagodas perched high above the clouds, surrounded by monumental mountains and far removed from mortal space.
In this clip, learn how to turn a delicious sandwich into a moldy mess. This sandwich is perfect for Halloween, April Fools Day or just a fantastic way to keep other kids from stealing your school lunch. With a little powdered sugar and a bit of food coloring, you can turn an ordinary PB&J into a fuzzy, green treat.
Gift or loot bags make great little additions to any party - people always appreciate receiving something special when they leave a get together.
Get that authentic Mexican taste at home with this recipe for chicken fajitas. Ingredients:
Brussels sprouts with hot orange sauce is a sweet green that makes for a gorgeous presentation on the side of any holiday plate.
Check out Esquire Magazine's feature "Ask a Beautiful Woman" to learn how to prepare exotic concoction absinthe. Famed absinthe sippers include Ernest Hemingway and Oscar Wilde. Get in on the magic of the green fairy.
John Jacobs' Golf Schools present Quick Tips: Pitching. Director of Instruction Tom Perkins explains how to get over an obstacle when close to the green. Pitching is a shot where you spend a lot of time in the air. It helps you to get over an obstacle. It should sit soft and not roll very much.
John Jacobs' Golf Schools present Quick Tips: Putting. Director of Instruction Tom Perkins helps you limit your strokes on the green.
Make a Tesla turbine blade out of CDs. This i a super cool, high tech science project from Green Power Science. Turn your junk CDs into something very interesting.
Only cook live mussels. If it doesn't open a little when you knock on it it is dead and should not be eaten. Scour off the lips that attach the mussel to rocks and discarded.
What’s a more sensual dessert than chocolate-covered strawberries? Learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries for your next date.
Around the World in 80 Dishes takes you to Peru with a video demonstration of a classic recipe for ceviche, a popular Latin American dish that can be made with all kinds of seafood. You will need snapper fillet, lime juice, extra-virgin olive oil, jalapeno, garlic, salt, ground pepper, plum or Roma tomatoes, red onion, green onion, and cilantro. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a Peruvian snapper ceviche.
In this video tutorial from DRUM! Magazine, Jeff Bowers demonstrates how to play "American Idiot" by Green Day on the drums. While this tutorial is geared towards intermediate drum players, drummers of all skill levels can play along. Take a look and learn how to play "American Idiot"!
Forget the Chinese take out, this seafood and noodle Chinese dish is perfect for any day of the week. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to stir fry shrimp lo mein. This shrimp recipe is quick and delicious try it tonight.
This Thai dish of instant noodles with beef is perfect for any day of the week. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to stir fry instant ramen noodles with beef. This recipe is quick and delicious try it tonight.
This dish was created during the letter part of the Chan Dynasty by the chef of a scholarly Hunanese general, Tso Tsung Tang. Follow along with chef Kai as he makes General Tso's chicken. You will need chicken, chicken stock, sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, cornstarch, dark soy sauce, hoisin sauce, garlic, ginger, and green onions. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make General Tso's chicken recipe.
First, part the curtain to enter the voting machine. Then, start the voting process on the ELECTronic 1242 voting machine in Delaware. All that's left is to press the big green VOTE button on the voting machine and you're done. So get down to your county and VOTE in this coming election. The pol's need you.
A chip shot is used when the golf ball lies next to the green, and your goal is to get it into the hole in one or two strokes. Learn how to execute a chip shot using the ideal stance, grip, and golf swing.
Many golfers slice their entire lives without realizing that by making a few simple adjustments to their golf swing, it can be easily corrected. Try theses tips to correct slices on the green.
This is a tutorial on how to make an origami rose that also becomes a box. Magic? Maybe. You will need three pieces of red paper and three pieces of green paper.
Learn from Green Deane about lichen, a potential food found everywhere on earth.
Watch as Manjula prepares a delicious Indian side dish. This spicy potato recipe serves four. You will need:
A nice complicated modular origami by Mio Tsugawa ( http://puupuu.ojaru.jp). Made from 30 modular origami units, I made 10 green and 20 yellow to make a "stripe" on the ball.
Forget the Chinese take out tonight, make your own soup at home. Watch this how to video tutorial as professional Thai chef Kai shows you how to cook up a Chinese wonton soup from scratch. This Chinese soup is great for a cold winter day.
RyanIsHungry has put together a nice video of Mikey Sklar and Wendy Tremayne making papercrete at their future hotel Green Acre in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. This is an eco-friendly construction compound made from garbage. This is an insulation compound. It's kind of like industrial grade paper mache.
In this lesson you will learn how to play the electric guitar using the palm muting technique used by many punk bands including Green Day.
