How To: Make an Easy No-Bake Watermelon Cake
When it is too hot to use an oven but you want to have a dessert for a summer party, you can very easily make your own no-bake cake out of watermelon, whipped cream, chopped almonds, and fresh fruit.
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How To: 9 More Common Household Items for Relieving a Sunburn
Though summer is almost over, that doesn't mean you should ever be lax when it comes to protecting your skin from sun overexposure. However, should you find yourself with red and burning skin after a last-minute weekend trip to the beach, listed below are 9 simple and cheap home remedies for relieving symptoms of sunburn.
How To: 6 Ways to Disinfect Your Cutting Board—From All-Natural to Chemically Potent
After cutting fruits, veggies, and especially meats, it's good idea to regularly disinfect and deodorize your cutting board thoroughly. From using kitchen chemicals, to all-natural ingredients you probably have around, there are several ways to do it.
News: Turn your vegetables into articulating robotic digits
Hell, yeah! Play with your food. This android hand is the brainchild of a collaboration including Robo250, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Mattress Factory and MAYA Design, Inc.
How To: Peel, Slice and Chop a Kiwi
We all know that Kiwis can be hard to cut, especially with that furry skin. But in this video, I'll show you the exact steps that you need to take in order to get it done right. The best part—you'll be using a spoon to peel it. Also, I hope that you feel like a boss while you're doing it.
How To: Make a tropical passion fruit Caipirinha
Cachaca is a delicious, sugar-based liquor that makes amazing drinks. This video shows you how to use cachaca, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 shot of passion fruit juice and some ice to make a fruity and icy cold summertime drink. Garnish with a slice of orange. Make a tropical passion fruit Caipirinha.
How To: Make the Pink Goose vodka cocktail
A great party cocktail, perfect to serve to vodka lovers. For this drink, you will need: 3 sliced basil leaves, cubed watermelon, ice, 3 ounces vodka, 1/2 ounce port wine, a splash of watermelon mixer, a splash of simple syrup and a cube of watermelon on a skewer for garnish. Make the Pink Goose vodka cocktail.
How To: Make a Strawberry Sapphire cocktail with gin
Make this delicate cocktail easily at home. You will need: wedges from half a lemon, 2 sliced strawberries, 1 whole strawberry (for the garnish), 3 chopped basil leaves, 3 ounces gin (as good as you can get), a splash of fresh lime juice, a splash of simple syrup and ice. Make a Strawberry Sapphire cocktail with gin.
How To: Make spicy pork rolls as a delicious appetizer
These snacks are great for parties or game days. Slice a pork cutlet very thin, and use prosciutto as well. Add sauteed onions, parsley, roasted tomatoes, Parmesan cheese and freshly chopped garlic. Then roll it all together and hold it with a toothpick. Make spicy pork rolls as a delicious appetizer.
How To: Make apple charlotte
A delightful take on the traditional apple charlotte, this dessert is made with toasted bread slices and chunks of apple, rather than the usual applesauce. This video discusses how to assemble this apple bread pudding. The traditional version uses applesauce which collapses out of the mold. Only use golden delicious or hard apples, to keep shape. Make apple charlotte.
How To: Make a whipped cream carnation pie arrangement
The Flowergod designs a whip cream carnation pie for summer. The arrangements includes variegated carnations, yellow daisies, lemon slices, and shaving cream as whip cream. Make a whipped cream carnation pie arrangement.
How To: Make salmon in a potato crust
Julia Child and her guest demonstrate how to make salmon in a potato crust. The salmon is wrapped in paper thin potato slices, then fried until the fish is tender and the potatoes are crisp. Make salmon in a potato crust.
How To: Make carrot noodles in orange-ginger glaze
Tired of the same old noodles? Well, bring a little vegetarian flair to noodles by using fresh cut carrots. But this is only if you really love carrots. You have to. Because they're carrot noodles. Give it a try and see the whole recipe for carrot noodles in orange-ginger glaze.
How To: Make a heart attack inducing bacon-wrapped hot dog w/ cucumber-mustard relish
Whoa! Talk about an artery clogger! As if this super huge hot dog wasn't enough to induce a full-fledged heart attack, the deep fried bacon screams "heart failure" to the nth degree. If you're daring enough to eat this XL bacon-wrapped hot dog (and even more daring to serve it), then this video recipe will show you all the gory details.
How To: Make Mujadarah
Mujadarah Mujadarah is a Middle Eastern dish that's healthy, filling, cheap, and most of all, delicious. It requires only rice, lentils, some onions, and a few spices. We like to cook it for cold winter nights.
How To: Mix a Cosmopolitan with Martha Stewart's REAL SIMPLE
Learn how to mix a Cosmopolitan with the folks from Martha Stewart's REAL SIMPLE. AKA as a Cosmo (per Sex and the City), this drink is simple and fun.
How To: Cook lamb brochettes with yogurt-cucumber sauce
Brochettes are usually the skewers that you use to barbecue, grill or roast chunks of delicious meat, but its become its own dish know, as is the case with this recipe for lamb brochettes. And what goes great with lamb meat? Yogurt.
HowTo: Make Mini Pizza Cups
Dangerously close in resemblance to the over-the-top pizza cone, these mini pizza cups look like muffins. After testing a recipe from My Kitchen Snippets, Serious Eats came up with this:
How To: Make tom kha salmon soup with the Thai prime minister
The secret to making a delicious Thai soup, according to Prime Minister Samak, is pounding together Thai pepper powder, corriander seed and fresh garlic in a mortar & pestle. This paste he calls "Thai MSG" and you can add it to any soup for good results. See below for the correct proportions. Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how to make tom kha salmon soup.
Skip the Drive Thru: DIY Big Mac Recipe
The secret to making a (healthier) Big Mac replica is all in the sauce. Gotta get that special sauce just right. Local Lemon does a somewhat gourmet spin on the classic fast food burger, ultimately aiming for true authenticity.
How To: Make Camote Fries or Sweet Potato Fries for Breakfast
Intro to Camotes Older Filipinos love eating camotes, also known as sweet potato fries, for breakfast. Aside from filling your stomach completely, it also has fewer carbs than regular white rice.
How To: Make Crab Salad with Savory Basil Sherbet
This is a refreshing and light crab salad with a savory basil lemon sherbet on top. I know it sounds weird, but it's perfect for summer and helps you cool off from the heat.
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News: No cook full meal
here's what I had for lunch. Completely no cook meal. Salted egg
News: Pizza Sandwich
I had one day-old slice of Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust. I was going to just make toast. I'm so glad this happened instead. Fusion cuisine bacheeze-stylee.
News: Hacking Photography With Chrono-Cubism
Brazilian photographer Diego Kuffer says he's "hacked" the idea of photography with his chrono-cubism method of compositing photos into collages, resulting in a vibrant tracking of time, space and movement:
HowTo: Make a Gnarly Halloween Meat Skull
Gross out your Halloween guests this year with Andy Oakland's Jell-O glued sliced meat head (ew). Full instructions at Make.
News: The Ring of Fire
This works best if you're sharing a toilet with someone, like in a hotel or hostel etc:
RECIPE: Milkshakes Go Pretty Yum With Cake
Ok, so it's not a cake recipe, but this summer shake looks soooo good, i couldn't resist. Besides, a strawberry shake tastes pretty nice with a slice of chocolate cake.
How To: Play pool shots that will win you the game
Learn the pool shots you need to defeat any opponent, such as the bank shot and the slice. Play pool shots that will win you the game.
How To: Make triple citrus meringue tart
Make triple citrus meringue tart. Lemon custard, meringue and flaky crust are combined with lime and orange flavoring, putting a unique spin on an original lemon meringue pie. In part one, they demonstrate how to take the orange zest off the orange, chop it up, make the dough, and slice lemons. Make triple citrus meringue tart.
How To: Make mint pesto
Sarah shows us a quick recipe for mint pesto. You will need mint leaves, sliced almonds, olive oil and salt. Make mint pesto.
How To: Make chocolate garnishes
Martha shares a sweet Good Thing: chocolate garnishes. Here is a sweet Good Thing to add to your Valentine's Day dessert that is very simple to create. You can make your own chocolate hearts to garnish your sorbet, ice cream, or even a slice of cake. All you need is some dark chocolate and Reynolds parchment paper. Make chocolate garnishes.
How To: Make Thai-marinated beef with rice noodles
Julia Child and guest demonstrate how to make Thai-marinated beef with rice noodles. This spicy beef is thinly sliced and served on a bed of noodles and vegetables. Make Thai-marinated beef with rice noodles.
How To: Make Stuffed Roasted Red Peppers
These cheesy mixture of vegetables and couscous complement the just barely blackened bell peppers for an absolutely divine meal. These are a must-try.
How To: Make un-deadly "zombie" drinks with juice, rum, apricot brandy and BRAINS
Make your Halloween party the best ever with this "zombie" drink sure to keep the living dead coming back for more! This zombie-style drink is complete with brains, but more importantly, it packs a wallop with three different kinds of rum (!!!) and apricot brandy. This mixed punch also has orange, pineapple and lime juice. Don't forget to make your citrus ice the night before, either in brain molds or a nice big block. Party on!
How To: Make a rustic pear and goat cheese tart dessert, served hot or cold
Forget apple pie. Bring fresh summer pears into your kitchen for a wonderful dessert which blends ripe, juicy pears, candied ginger and creamy goat cheese into a tasty, rustic tart. This tart dessert will take some time and precision inside the kitchen, but it's well worth the effort. The crust is made with butter that's gently heated to a light brown and then chilled. When baked, the goat cheese gives a subtle tang amongst the medley of flavors.
How To: Bake spicy scallop and avocado maki
What is maki? Maki is a classic Japanese dish consisting of sushi and raw vegetables, wrapped in seaweed. Sounds good, right? Well, this spicy, baked scallop and avocado maki sushi is sure to be the best maki you've ever tasted. Try it out.
How To: Cook a whole roasted red snapper
The red snapper. The perfect main course for any occasion. This whole roasted red snapper fish is the finest communal meal out there. A whole fish cooked on the bone, along with hearty accompaniments. The best way to cook this is by stuffing it with herbs and cooking it in foil with sausage, potatoes, clams, olives, and fennel. See if you like this great recipe.
How To: Bake a pizzetta with your kids
Why should pizza shops have all the fun! Carrie shows her crew a new twist on how to toss a perfect mini pie. It smells like pizza, it tastes like pizza, but it looks like it's been zapped by a shrinking machine! It's the pizzetta! Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how to bake a pizzetta with your kids.