So, you want to be a great chef? Well...it's one thing being able to cook, but it's another thing entirely having the skills and know how to chop your food efficiently, effectively and being able to make it look good. In this clip, learn how to dice an onion like a pro so that you get a beautiful cut every time. This fast and easy way to dice will speed up your recipes and get you cookin' the right way. Enjoy!
When Martha Stewart's daughter, Alexis, was a young girl, her favorite pie was the sweet potato pie from a restaurant down the street. But as Alexis got older, she started not enjoying the overly sweet taste. In an effort to still enjoy her favorite pie, she adapted the recipe.
In this tutorial, we learn how to bake and frost petits fours with Rhonda. The tools you will need for this include: silicone pans, cake mix, cooking spray, cookie sheet, oven at 350 degrees, pourable fondant recipe, wax paper, cooling rack, bowls, how water, candy thermometer, spoons, knives, and forks. First, spray your pans with cooking spray and fill them with the cake mix up to half way. Now, place the silicone pan onto a cookie shit and bake in the oven for around 7 to 8 minutes. Then, ...
In this tutorial, learn how to make a disgusting looking recipe that actually tastes fantastic. This clip will show you how to make cookies that look like..well.. dog poo! This is great for Halloween, April Fools Day or other types of kid's parties. So, follow along and make these disgustingly delicious treats.
You can make Indian food as genuine as the real thing with this video from Show Me The Curry. Don't be discouraged by this just because it's "ethnic" food. This recipe is easy and can be done with readily available ingredients. Mango pickle is a delicious condiment that acts as a great compliment to a wide array of dishes, not just Indian food. This video will show you how to make South Indian mango picke.
The noble grilled cheese sandwich is enjoying a renaissance thanks to the gastropub movement, and new recipes for them are becoming more elaborate and delicious by the day. Some of the best among these neuveau grilled cheeses have cheese cooked into the bread as well as in the middle of the sandwich, and it might seem daunting to replicate this at home without having more cheese end up stuck on the pan than the bread. Fortunately, Chef John is here to help. In this video he teaches you how to...
Catfish are great - they taste good and are friendly fish to catch. In this tutorial, learn how to save some money and make your very own catfish bait at home. This method of creating bait is very simple and can be made with ingredients you already have in your house. The ingredients for this bait might sound tasty to you, but don't try and eat it! The fish will find this concoction as yummy as a human would and you will be sure to catch plenty of catfish with this recipe!
In this tutorial, learn exactly how to make bluegill fish bait at home. This video will display two different recipes for making dough bait. Both of these methods are fairly easy to create and can be made with items in your kitchen. Along with the step by step instruction, you will also be taught why each of these methods works and what their downsides may be. You may feel like you're about to bake a cake with these ingredients but don't worry - that's exactly the idea! Learn how to make this...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make crispy golden roasted turkey. For this recipe you will need: 13 lb turkey, butter, olive oil, salt and pepper. To cook the turkey you will need: 1 roasting rack, 1 roasting pan and aluminum foil. First, preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Then, pat dry your turkey after rinsing thoroughly, making sure to fully dry everything. Now, rub butter all over the turkey, inside and out. You can now brush the turkey with a generous amount of olive oil and then seaso...
This video describes how to bake summer savory dog biscuits. For ingredients you need 2 cups of Keen dog food, 2 cups of warm water, 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese, 1/2 cup raw ground beef, 1/4 cup of grated raw zucchini, and 2 large eggs. You will bake the recipe at 350 for about 25 minutes. First, mix the dog food with the warm water to make a thick mix. Add in the other ingredients and mix until you have a nice thick batter. With your hands, pat small amounts of dough into biscuits and ...
This video shows you how to clean a Thanksgiving Turkey. For this, you will need a turkey. Place the turkey in a clean sink. Remove the plastic bag. Carefully remove the contents from the belly of the turkey. Reach into the belly of the turkey, with your hand and remove the packets. It will likely contain the turkey’s heart, liver, giblets, and neck. When you remove these items, set them aside to be used later. They can be incorporated into the other Thanksgiving recipes, including dressing/s...
This video demonstrates how to shell, devein, and butterfly shrimp. For this, you will need a paring knife or a pair of kitchen shears and large shrimp.
The Food Channel brings us this quick and easy recipe for making peach cobbler. Place the sliced peaches in a large bowl and add some sugar, lemon juice and cornstarch and mix together thoroughly so that the peaches are completely covered.
This two part video features how to make soda and what you need to do before making any lacto-fermented soda recipes. Watch and learn how to make your own soda and lacto fermented food.
This video explains how to make an orange chicken with only 230 calories. This is about making a recipe for orange chicken for people with kidney problems not on dialysis. It is low sodium. Chicken tenders are cut into strips. The sauce is made from 1/2 cup of orange juice, a 1/4 cup of brown sugar, a 1/4 cup of honey, and a 1 tablespoon of prepared mustard. Warm the sauce on the stove or in the microwave. The chicken is dipped in the sauce and then dipped into crumbled cornflakes and placed ...
For an easy, but tasty, chicken dinner Chef John shows us his recipe for barbeque chicken that helps you avoid the burned skin. With the raw chicken, cut some deep slashes that will allow the BBQ sauce and marinade to permeate the chicken. Also, make a gash on the wing to make the grilling easier. In a bowl, combine crushed garlic, one quarter cup of rice vinegar, and a couple tablespoons of BBQ sauce. Dip the chicken into this marinade. Let the chicken sit in the marinade for an hour. After ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make turkey goulash. The video provides all the ingredients required in order to make turkey goulash. The ingredients include: 1 chopped onion, 2 chopped carrots, 2 chopped stalks of celery, sweat in olive oil over medium high, 3 tablespoons of Hungarian paprika, 2 crushed & minced clove garlic’s, 1/2 bottle of white wine, 2 roasted peppers, can of stewed tomatoes and turkey. This video provides step-by-step instructions that allow viewers to easil...
Betty makes a traditional, Bob Evans style sausage and potato skillet breakfast. Betty truly is the master of the breakfast!
This video shows you how to make a classic sweet martini cocktail that you can use for an entertainment surprise. The first public recipe was published in 1888. A dry martini has very little vermouth. A sweet martini has a little more vermouth. A perfect martini is a mixture of dry and sweet vermouth. To make the sweet martini cocktail we use a cocktail glass not a martini glass. Get the glass cold by putting ice and water into the glass. Get the shaker tin and put ice, 1 1/2 ounce of good gi...
Chef Phil Vickery shows views how to make delicious looking white chocolate chip raspberry cookies. He shows viewers several ways to include the raspberries on both the inside and outside of his cookies to create different appearances for his cookies. Using his recipe you can vary the ingredients to include different nuts or berries. He also enlightens viewers on how to make and store cookie batter for future batches of cookies if you do not want to bake the whole batch at once.
Elie Krieger from Food Network bakes up a scrumptious chicken pot pie. Her version will give you a healthy boost because she added extra vegetables and cut down on the fat. This southern dish is sure to warm up tummies everywhere and you can customize the ingredients based on your family's tastes. For example, you may want to use turkey instead of chicken, or possibly beef. Maybe your family likes different vegetables. This particular recipe uses chicken, onions, carrots, celery and green bea...
It's often that pasta gets the "easy out" tag when served for dinner, but here's an easy recipe for spicy Kabanossi-Sausage pasta (or Chorizo pasta) that tastes gourmet and will leave your family or dinner guests wondering what celebrity chef you have hiding in the kitchen.
From the Tesco Food Club comes a delicious whole salmon recipe. Though the dish looks impressive, the actual process is fairly simple. You just wrap your fish in some foil and bake. Serve with some fresh cucumbers, and you have a dish guaranteed to refresh and impress.
Little Lady Cakes shows you how to prepare buttercream icing from scratch. Perfect for frosting cakes and cupcakes! Watch this cake decorating tutorial for a simple buttercream frosting recipe.
Tired of chicken? Discover duck! The Maple Leaf Farms corporate chef will teach you how to properly cut up a whole duck (also called deboning). Cooking duck is easier than you think. Maple Leaf Farms is your one stop for duck cooking tips and duck recipes. Make it a meal to remember with duck.
Corner-store sweets go high-end in time for Halloween. Make homemade candy bars for an extra special Halloween treat. This is a very easy recipe, surprising as candymaking is a difficult and sensitive project. This is a quick overview of the steps in making candy bars at home.
Check out this video cooking tip from The Chef's Toolbox in Australia. Watch this tutorial to learn how to use rosemary and thyme like a chef. Using the fresh herbs rosemary and thyme in recipes is easy with a little know-how, see how to do it right here.
Dave learns how to make buuz (Mongolian dumplings) with a family in a ger. This is a traditional Eastern dish that is baked. The recipe is rooted in Mongolian history. Cooking in a ger or a yurt like house is important to put all elements of native culinary habits into consideration.
This crunchy, creamy, frosty recipe is ideal for kids. And since it's low in sugar and low-calorie, it works with a diabetic meal plan. This dish is a crowd pleaser and perfect for your holiday menu. Makes a great dessert for Christmas dinner.
Learn how to make royal icing for decorating cookies and cakes this Christmas. It is a simple recipe, with just 2 ingredients: confectioner sugar and egg whites. You can use royal icing to assemble gingerbread houses. This is a strong, adhesive frosting, perfect for dessert assembly and cake decorating. Be sure to stick around for Chapter Two, to learn how to fill a pastry bag with the royal icing.
You've got the basic recipe. Now learn all the different ways you can decorate those holiday sugar cookies like a pro.
What’s the holiday season without a glass of creamy eggnog? Can you even remember a Christmas when everybody wasn't drunk off eggnog? Well, this year, instead of buying eggnog from a carton and simply spiking it with a little alcohol, learn to make your own.
You may remember the recipe for a basic non-Newtonian fluid from grade school science experiments (one part water to one and one third part corn flour or cornstarch), but those trials probably stopped at squeezing the mixture in your hands. While a regular fluid's viscosity wouldn't allow you to walk on it, a little bit of technique and the magic of physics will have you walking on a non-Newtonian fluid as well as Jesus. This video science experiment shows how to use 50kg of corn flour/cornst...
Watch this instructional cooking video to cook a favorite Japanese dessert. Make two types of Kudzu mochi. Each recipe serves two.
In this second episode of the Hawaiian "Jenna in the Jungle" series, Manis demonstrates how to climb a coconut tree. Watch this how to video and learn how to cut coconuts open to make fresh, rich coconut cream. Learn the benefits of coconuts and how to use them in the most sustainable way. Use the coconut cream in a decadent chocolate recipe, jungle-style.
ArizonaSpaGirls.com founder, Lisa Kasanicky, demonstrates how to make an inexpensive sugar body scrub. You will need your normal cleanser, corn meal, tea bags, a pot, a bowl, a mask, cucumbers, and witch hazel. Watch this video skin care tutorial and learn how to give yourself an at home facial.
Watch this instructional cooking video to prepare tuna stuffed cucumber appetizers. This recipe includes written instructions in addition to visual guidelines. Use a can of tuna, mayonnaise, diced carrots, and a cucumber to prepare a simple hors d'oeuvre to go with dinner at home.
Watch this instructional cooking video to prepare a shrimp mold appetizer. This recipe tastes much better if you can use fresh jumbo shrimp, but you can also prepare this with a more modest selection of shrimp. This English style hors d'oeuvre is easy to prepare with common household ingredients.
Sometimes the simplest sauces are the best, and this recipe for Creole sauce sure is simple. In this how to video Chef Paul show you how to make a great tasting Creole sauce. What makes it Creole style is the mustard. Gather some cream, mustard, pepper sauce, sugar, and spices to make this special sauce.
Dan Vincent, a bartender from Laguna Beach, CA shows you how to make "specialty martinis" at home for you, your family and friends in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial. This specialty drink recipe is a neon twist on the sweet, citrus martini. To mix the electric lemon drop you will need, vodka, blue curacao, margarita mix, and simple syrup.
