Japanese cuisine is a favorite of many rail-thin celebs for a reason: It's both delicious (luxurious may be a better word) and really, really healthy. That's because true Japanese cuisine is made mostly of raw ingredients - fish and a lot of vegetables.
Think sushi is too tricky to make at home? Follow these tips for preparing light and healthy vegetarian sushi from scratch and you'll be rolling in no time! Use cucumber and avocado or your favorite vegetable.
Learn from Green Deane about duck potatoes, a wide-spread highly-esteemed root vegetable.
Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild vegetable and grain.
This is a great start or finish to any Thai meal. Add shrimp, mussels and calimari to a wonderfully flavorful mix of vegetables, spices and herbs.
Love smoked meats and vegetables? Just watch this video to see how easy it is to smoke on a charcoal grill.
Watch this video cooking tutorial to learn how to make Thai deep fried chicken wings, a recipe from Thai chef Kai. This dish is very easy to make and tastes much better than KFC. You will need chicken wings, oyster sauce, garlangal powder, sugar, pepper, egg, flour, cornstarch, and vegetable oil.
Try this quick and easy salmon dish tonight. The lemon pepper sauce adds a delightfully tangy flavor to this salmon recipe. Serve with green beens or your favorite vegetable.
Check out how to make Chinese stir fry with vegetables and chicken, plus sweet and sour sauce. Include rice on the side.
Learn how to make classic beef pot roast by watching this video.
Learn how to make pork chops! They are easy to cook and taste great with mustard sauce. Add rice and steamed vegetables and you are guaranteed a tasteful and nutritious meal. Enjoy!
Gardening doesn't have to be a lot of work, especially if you use mulch in your vegetable and ornamental beds and pathways. Mulch is a huge garden time saver because it helps prevent weeds, reduces the need to water, moderates soil temperatures, adds organic matter to the soil as it breaks down and helps your garden look tidy.
Paratha are an Indian unleavened bread and an integral part of many Indian meals. Any subzi (vegetable) or curry dish can be fabulous when accompanied with fresh, hot parathas. Note: Chapatis are cooked without oil whereas Parathas are pan fried.
Raw foods Chef Ani Phyo makes a raw, vegan Spanish breakfast scramble with nuts, spices, and vegetables.
Whether you're short on time or just a big fan of Chinese food, stir-fry is a healthy, delicious, and easy meal to prepare. All it really takes is whatever vegetables and meat you've got lying around in the fridge (leftovers are totally okay) and a wok.
Scrambled eggs are a delightful addition to a breakfast or brunch menu. Watch how to properly whisk and cook eggs. You will need eggs, low-fat milk and butter. You can add a lot of your own touches to this basic recipe. Add sausage, cheese, or vegetables for a variety of scrambled egg breakfasts.
In this video you will learn how to can soup. For this video they show you how to can zucchini soup with a pressure canner. Even if you don't like zucchini, that's ok, you can make other kinds like squash or carrot.
Michel Nischan shows you some great low-carb snacks, such as mozzarella sticks and peanut butter covered vegetables. However, the best low-carb snack is the Mexican pizza. Created with a toasted tortilla, refried beans, strained salsa, and low fat cheese. Bake it in the oven for four minutes, and you have one tasty snack
Watch this instructional video to make a basic recipe of this all-time favorite dish, fried chicken. All you need to make this dish is chicken, vegetable oil, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, milk, egg, and flour.
Thai peanut sauce can be used as a dip for vegetables or as a sauce for meals. Try this easy version that uses real peanuts. Ingredients needed are brown sugar, water, dark soy sauce, sesame oil, tamarind paste, fish sauce, chili sauce and dry roasted peanuts.
In this zesty Mexican Salsa Verde, tomatillos and cilantro mingle with garlic, chiles, and jalapenos. Drizzle on top of tacos, burritos, or salad. You will need tomatillos, garlic, onion, cilantro, salt, vegetable oil, jalapeno, diced green chiles and lemon juice. Salsa verde can be served immediately, but the flavors meld even better when you let it sit in the refrigerator overnight. Enjoy.
Warm cheese and an ensemble of vegetables make artichoke dip a scrumptious snack or appetizer. Learn how to bake this easy artichoke dip at home. Ingredients needed are artichoke hearts, mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, roasted red pepper, pkg. frozen chopped spinach, garlic powder, onion powder (optonal), and water.
A hearty and filling soup, lentil soup is a delicious dish that's perfect for a chilly day. Learn how to give it a smoky flavor with freshly roasted cumin seeds. lentils, olive oil, vegetable stock, dry cooking sherry, red wine vinegar, chopped tomatoes, fresh or frozen corn, carrots, onion, garlic cloves, bay leaf, chili powder, cumin seeds and pepper to taste.
This how-to video shows you how to make stuffed bell peppers with the letters A, B, and C, vitamins that is. Stuff your bell peppers with wonderful vegetables including zucchini and carrots as well as mushrooms onions, garlic and polenta. Stuffed bell peppers are easy to prepare and they make a wonderful meal for any day of the week.
If you don't eat meat and love Chinese food, then this is the recipe for your. Watch this how to video and try make some vegetable lo mein for dinner.
It’s the chop of choice for almost any vegetable—from basic oblongs and spheroids, like garlic, onions, and potatoes, to the more irregular oddities, like mushrooms, rhubarb, and sun-dried tomatoes.
Before watching this video we never knew there were so many different varieties of chile peppers, nor that each variety has a different degree of spiciness, measured in heat units.
Leek's are related to the onion family. They are sweet like onions when they are cooked, but unlike onions make your eyes water when you cut them, they have long straight white stalks with tough green leaves. Select white fresh stalks with bright looking green leaves, and avoid damage. To prepare the soup cut the stalk of the green leaf and reserve them to make stock and trim the surface of the base.Under running water cut the leek for two halves and wash thorughly between the layers. Slice t...
Kevingianni shows you how to make some nacho cheese bites for your parties. These are a healthy alternative to nacho platters. Take cashews, peppers, garlic, nutritional yeast and turmeric for color. Mix your ingredients together and refrigerate. Make nacho bites by adding lettuce to a meatless filling adding some vegetable toppings and garnish. Enjoy at a party with friends for this simple raw cook-less meal. It's a quick recipe but you do need a food processor and a heavy duty blender to bl...
In this cooking how to video Nadia G. teaches us how to make orgasmic brussel sprouts and parsnips. Impossible? Watch and learn how to turn these underdog vegetables into delicious dishes. Parsnip an brussel sprouts never tasted so good. If you're looking for new recipes or want to learn how to cook, Bitchin' Kitchin' is the how-to cooking show for you. Nadia G serves up original recipe ideas and big laughs for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Come and get it!
Broccoli salad recipes are delicious and can be nutritious. A real "super food" broccoli is chock full of nutrition, antioxidants and flavor. This broccoli salad recipe is also an easy way to get more vegetables in your diet.
Watch as Manjula prepares two vegetarian versions of this classic Indian toor dal. You will need:
Portabella mushrooms add delicious flavor to a variety of dishes, and can also be used as a meat substitute. Learn how to prepare portabella mushrooms for meals and as a veggie burger. Portabella mushrooms are commonly found at the grocery store as caps or as slices. When you get home, take the mushrooms out of the plastic, and keep them in the fridge wrapped in paper towels. When you are ready to cook them, quickly rinse or wipe off portabellas with a squeezed damp towel. The portabella mush...
There's nothing better to cool those hot summer days that a deliciously fruit Italian ice. Italian ice is one of the best desserts to beat the heat, right alongside frozen yogurt and ice cream! And you probably didn't realize how easy Italian ice is to make at home. Robin Benzle of Chow Time will show you how with her lemon-cranberry version. There's only four ingredients: lemons, cranberries, water and sugar.
We can promise you that your party guests will do a double take when they see these cupcakes shaped like delicious deli sandwiches. We almost couldn't believe our eyes when we first saw them ourselves; these cupcakes are decorated down to the very last sesame seed to resemble ham and cheese deli sandwiches.
Eating healthy does not mean crunching on cardboard 24/7, even if that's what your kids think. While it's always easy to reach for a neat package of Cheetos and toss that into your kid's lunchbox for school, doing so means you're giving them a hefy serving of artificial coloring (some of which has been linked to cancer), artificial flavoring, and high fructose corn syrup.
A lemon a day keeps the skin doctor at bay. You're probably more than familiar with a lemon's antibacterial, antiviral (and even weight loss-promoting!) properties as a foodstuff, but did you know they can also lighten, brighten, and bring a youthful glow to your skin?
Raw food diets are fast becoming a popular and healthy lifestyle due to its all-natural slant, and in this video Chrissy Bix shows you how to make a delicious raw mango and berry pie. The raw pie crust is nut and date-based and requires a blender to get the correct dough-like consistency. From there it can be transferred directly into a pie dish and topped with blueberries, raspberries (fresh or frozen) and mango. It can be served with Keffir or cashew cream, both of which are good whipped cr...
This video shows how to make a mermaid birthday cake that would be perfect for a little girl. To make the mermaid take a fashion doll, or a Barbie doll, and wrap her legs in plastic wrap. Now cover her in green and blue fruit roll-ups to form the mermaid's tail. You will need about three strips to make the entire dress and tail. The fruit roll-ups will stick to itself. For the cake you will need two 8 inch rounds and a smaller cake baked in a custard cup. Make sure the cakes are flat on top, ...
This how-to video shows you how to make boiled wheat. To do this, take some wheat and put it in a pot. Pour some water into the pot and put it on a stove in order to boil it. After about 45 minutes to an hour, you will now have lovely boiled wheat grains. You can use this dish as a side dish. You can also use it with natural yogurt, fruit, and cinnamon for breakfast. Another alternative is using milk, peanut butter, and honey. You can also use it with a salad. Just add lintels, parsley, salt,...
