Your perfect home-baked chocolate chip cookie may be thick and chewy, or crispy and thin, or something in-between. With a little cooking know-how and experimentation, you can adjust the different ingredients and cooking steps in the baking process to create the perfect chocolate chip cookie that best suits your particular sweet tooth preferences.
Do you have an excess of empty yogurt containers? Do you also happen to have a green thumb? Put two and two together to make a DIY self-irrigating planter for your next tomato plant, herb garden or whatever green growing thing suits your fancy.
Forget video games. Go outside. Get some fresh air. Get out a little anger while you're at it. Play Boxwars.
Applesauce isn't boring at all! This video shows you a few ways you can add some jazz to your applesauce. The key is in getting the right variety of apple, and making sure that your apples are fresh and ripe. Make a flavorful, delicious applesauce.
Fondant is a velvety candy used by cake decorating professionals to make a wide variety of cake toppers and figures. The recipe is quite simple, all you need is 1/2 cup butter, 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk, 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar and 2 pounds of powdered sugar. The rest is all in the technique! Make fondant candy for cake decorating like a professional.
By steeping poblano chilis, sun dried tomatoes and garlic in some high end vodka, you can get a delicious, peppery liquor that does a fantastic job of spicing up Bloody Marys (as well as a variety of other mildly spicy cocktails). Steep for at least 24 hours. Make a poblano chili and garlic infused vodka.
Named after a sweet variety of orange, make this cocktail the next time you're asked for something fruity. The Valencia requires: 2 ounces apricot brandy, 1 ounce fresh orange juice, 3 dashes orange bitters, chilled champagne or sparkling wine, ice cubes and an orange twist to garnish. Make a delicious and festive Valencia cocktail.
This recipe yields 30 jiaozi with a variety of sauces, so it's the perfect party dish. You will need: 1/2 cup crab meat, 1 cup grated green cabbage, 1 tablespoon minced ginger, 2 tablespoons cilantro, 1 tablespoon sweet chili paste, 1 package wonton wrappers, 2 lightly beaten eggs and one box of corn starch. Make jiaozi dumplings out of crab meat.
This video comes straight from the Laboratory for Chocolate Science at MIT. Truffles are delicious, versatile candies that can be flavored in a variety of ways. This recipe shows you how to take tea extract and make tea infused chocolate truffles. Make tea infused chocolate truffles.
Ensure your orchids last for years with Sarah Raven's video advice on caring for cymbidium and phalaenopsis varieties as houseplants.
Follow Carol Klein's video guide to cross-pollinating two daffodil varieties using a pen. Gardeners' World is brought to you by the BBC. Search Gardeners' World on WonderHowTo for more videos that give practical gardening advice from experts. In this video, learn how to cross pollinate daffodils. Cross pollinate daffodils.
Watch Monty Don as he creates a scented garden using a variety of lavender plants, with suggestions for encouraging bushy growth.
Monty Don demonstrates how to plant heritage variety shallots in a container, offering advice on drainage and planting depths.
I recently came across this amazing MIT media lab site, Kit-of-No-Parts. Though not directly related to the content Cory has been posting, it is an interesting "craft" approach to technology/science. The site was created as documentation of a student's thesis work in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab:
The war between horror movie monsters has been going on for the better part of the last century. We're talking vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies and mutant flying creatures, each of which has had their fair share of the limelight in film. But it comes and goes. Once moviegoers get an overdose of a particular monster, they aren't scared anymore, meaning it's time to move onto the next. So, Dracula goes away kicking and screaming, just to be replaced by Frankenstein and then werewolves. But...
There is a new interface for customizing your farmer! Just click on them on your farm and you can change their look. There will also be a small icon on the left of a face in a duck costume you can click.
via Phillip Bloom & Engadget & Variety When SNL DP Alex Buono saw Philip Bloom's Dublin's People short he was so impressed he decided to shoot the entire 35th Season Opening Sequence on the 7D.
WonderHowTo has seen it's fair share of strange cakes. Semi-gruesome cakes (brains), downright stomach churning cakes (cigarettes and meat), and playfully disgusting cakes (Star Wars spilled guts).
This turon (banana lumpia) is one of my favorite meriendas (light meals), and it's so easy to make, even a child can do it! It's a must try, especially if you can't think about something to cook. So, for all the diehard banana fans, this is for you.
A 13-cards Ramee game is usually played between 2 players with one pack of cards. If three players are playing, then a 9-cards Ramee is played with one deck. For 4-players and more 21-cards Ramee is played and two or more decks are needed.
Sarah Raven offers advice on which tomato varieties to grow, and demonstrates how to sow tomato seeds in coir pellets.
This gives a variety of cheat codes for Grand Theft Auto IV. Follow this and learn how to hack GTA 4 for the PS3. Cheat at GTA IV.
A beginner's introduction to CINEMA 4D. Learn how to use the basic tool set in Maxon CINEMA 4D R10 for a variety of purposes including animation, motion graphics, modeling, and rigging. Use the basic toolset in CINEMA 4D - Part 1 of 2.
Forget wasting your money on take-out pizza, this recipe is the key to the homemade variety which smells better, tastes better and is much more satisfying to eat. Devour this Pizza Dough recipe. Make fresh pizza dough from scratch.
Learn how to encorporate the barking Hi-Hat effect in your drumming. Drummer Darren Matthes gives an excellent breakdown for when to hit the cymbal, when to close it, and how to add this sound into a variety of beats. Play barking Hi-Hats.
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. He'll show you how to make a tandoori spiced halibut with cucumber. Its a great way to add variety to your dinners. Make tandoori spiced halibut with Gordon Ramsay.
Box sushi, or hako sushi, is sushi pressed into the shape of a box. Master Chef Andy Matsuda, founder of the Sushi Chef Institute in Los Angeles, shows us how to make both shrimp and salmon varieties of hako sushi. Make box sushi or hako sushi.
Most people only associate the word detox with the abstinence of certain foods or alcohol, but it can also be a great way to care for your body and mind in ways that will assist the detoxification process, so let this video now show you a variety of ways that you can do this. Detox your mind and body.
Very versatile and quick to make, this recipe for bearnaise sauce goes well with all varieties of grilled meats. Make béarnaise sauce.
This tutorial will show you what you need to get started with acrylic painting and how to quickly produce some simple but effective paintings on a wide variety of surfaces - and not just with paint brushes either! Paint different things with acrylic paint.
In pool, a cut angle bank shot will have an amount of right spin. Use reverse, or right, English technique to decrease the rebound angle. By varying the amount of spin, you can change the angle of rebound and create a larger variety of rebound shots. Bank outside a cut angle, creating reverse English.
This pool shooting video shows an inside cut angle and how to bank off the rail to pocket the ball. An inside cut will give the ball left-spin, a natural left English, which will increase the rebound angle allowing you to set up a wider variety of rebound shots. Bank inside a cut, creating natural English in pool.
This video shows you how to create and edit opacity (or transparency) masks in Illustrator CS3 to produce a variety of effects. Check out this cool video by Colin Smith now! Work with opacity masks in Illustrator CS3.
New to Illustrator CS3? This video shows you how to create a variety of effects in Illustrator using blending modes in the Transparency panel. Check out this cool video created by Colin Smith now! Work with blending modes in Illustrator CS3.
Chef Portale demonstrates how to make foie gras ravioli. These light and delicate white bean and foie gras filled ravioli are perfect for a variety of dishes. Make foie gras ravioli.
This video shows how to create consistent, smooth curls on any texture or length hair. Also, learn how to make a variety of curled styles, whether you like tight ringlets or loose waves, you'll find the look for you. All you need are curling tongs, a brush, and a blowdryer. Use curling tongs.
This video shows how to use heated rollers to create a variety of styles to add volume or curls. You will need a set of heated rollers, a hair clip, a wide toothed comb, hair spray, and a heat protective serum. Curl your hair & add volume with heated rollers.
Chef Jacques Torres demonstrates how to make pralines; A crisp caramelized snack of sweet nuts also called nut brittle. Chef Torres mixes sugar with a variety of nuts before bringing the mixture to a boil. Make pralines.
Can you handle it? I'm not entirely sure I can, but my taste buds are definitely curious. Soft, doughy chocolate chip cookies stuffed with Nabisco's sugary sweet Oreos. This joins the ranks with: deep-fried trick-or-treat candy, deep-fried butter, deep-fried cheesecake... you get the idea.
In this Episode, Rob Birnholz shows you a great technique for quickly creating a 3D picture montage with Trapcode Particular. It takes just minutes to set up, but can save you hours of work.
