Hot Food How-Tos
How To: Cook prime rib with Worcestershire sauce
This prime rib recipe is a great meal for Christmas, New Years or just about any time. It's easy enough for a dad or anyone to make and much better than making a ham. Watch this how to video to learn how to cook prime rib to perfection.
How To: Bake & cook salmon w/olive oil and lemon in the oven
This Mealplanner101 Minute reveals a secret to baking salmon to perfection. 1. Preheat your oven on 390 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. Season a salmon fillet with salt. 3. Put some olive oil and lemon juice. 4. Bake it for 12 minutes. 5. Take about 1/4 inch cut of the salmon, so that the fish oil will ditch in to the plate. 6. Place the fish in to the oven and set it for 2 minutes. 7. Check if the oil changed from clear to opaque or white. If not, continue cooking 1 minute at a time. Once it's opaque...
How To: Prepare skate fish with sautéed fennel and tomato
This seafood recipe comes to us from Landersdorfer & Innerhofer in Munich. Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how to make skate fish with sauteed fennel and tomato. This is great recipe for incorporating fish and veggies into your diet.
How To: Make perfect rice in a cast iron skillet
In this video, we learn how to make the perfect rice in an cast iron skillet. First, place 1 cup of basmati rice into the skillet with 1 and 1/2 cup of water. Now, add in 1 tsp of butter and 1/2 tsp of salt into the skillet and turn it on high heat, and let it come to a simmer. Once it starts to simmer, stir it and turn the heat to low, then cover it. Let it sit for 20 minutes, and don't uncover it while you're waiting. When the 20 minutes is up, remove the lid for three seconds, then place t...
How To: Make sticky rice Thai style
In order to make Sticky Rice, for your favorite Thai recipes, you will need the following: a strainer, a medium sized pot, sticky rice,
How To: Make Japanese tofu flan
In this tutorial, we learn how to make Japanese tofu flan. First, make caramel sauce by heating up 30g of sugar with 2 tbsp water in a saucepan. When finished, grind your tofu up then add with 2 oz of water and place into the blender. When finished, pour into a bowl and set aside. In a separate bowl, beat 2 whole eggs then add in 50 grams of sugar, and 45 cc of fresh cream. Stir this slowly avoiding any bubbles being added to the mixture. Now, combine all ingredients except the caramel, and s...
How To: Make a Filipino-style custard cake
In this episode of Panlasang Pinoy, we are taken through the steps of how to make custard cake. The episode provides a shopping list of ingredients that are easy to find at any grocery store. Each step of the baking process is covered from mixing the ingredients and preparing the 9x13 pan to baking the cake. For an easy to follow recipe and guide to making fresh Filipino-style custard cake, follow the steps in this video.
How To: Make a Baileys baked Alaska with Gordon Ramsay
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Watch this how to video and uncover the mystery behind a Bailey's ice cream baked Alaska dessert. Here's a hint, part of the secret includes making the Italian meringue that surrounds this delicious dessert. Make a Baileys baked Alaska with Gordon Ramsay.
How To: Make Spanish Salt Cod Fritters with BBC's Rick Stein
Rick Stein creates a Spanish dish with traditional salt cod. Battered fish with a Mediterranean flair from the BBC cookery show "Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escape."
How To: Make a blueberry and pumpkin pie
The video shows Chef Doug Miller and Chuck love in their take on doing a sumptuous blueberry and pumpkin pie or a Blumpkin pie. The duo chefs shows us a different take on a blumpkin pie by showing two different sets of blumpkin pie, a chocolate crust and a graham cracker crust pie. For the chocolate crust blumpkin pie: Make a chocolate pie crust and place it in a pie pan. Prepare a pumpkin filling and place it in the crust by spreading it evenly. Fill the crust halfway. Add the fresh blueberr...
How To: Open a can using a Swiss Army Knife
This is a video demonstrating how to open a can with a Swiss Army Knife can opener. To begin, place the can on a flat surface. Open the can opener on the Swiss Army Knife. Make sure that the hook of the can opener is on the outer ring of the can and that the cutting part is on the inside. Use the blade to puncture a hole in the can, pulling up on the handle and pushing the blade along the can. Move the can in a counter clockwise motion cutting along the way. Use the tip of the can opener to p...
How To: Use the Bottle Opener on a Swiss Army Knife to Pop Off Bottle Caps
The Swiss army knife has a lifetime warranty and is the brand that MacGuyver used in his series so you know that it's good. The keychain side of the knife contains a bottle opener while the other side contains a can opener with a sharp cutting edge. The bottle opener has a flathead screwdriver on its top. You can use it to open bottles of ale when traveling through Europe by using a leverage technique. The top should then easily come off of your desired bottled beverage.
How To: Cook your green beans so they keep their color
In this tutorial, we learn how to cook your green beans so they keep their color. The secret ingredient you can add to your boiling water while cooking your green beans is ice! This will help the green and yellow colors from appearing in your green beans! It will keep the color a beautiful green and not mix in any other colors. To start, put enough water to cover the green beans in a saute pan and then heat it up, put in the green beans and as you cook them add in ice cubes. When finished, ad...
How To: Chop dried fruit
Use this quick and easy tip for chopping sticky dried fruit. The dried fruit can often stick to itself and become very difficult to chop into distinct pieces. This is important for baking cakes or other dessert recipes that require the ingredient.
How To: Cook beef tenderloin with Paula Deen for the holidays
The secret to Paula Deen's famous beef tenderloin dish? Bacon grease. Now that the holiday season is in full swing, don't you dare feel guilty about indulging a little...or adding a pound of lard to deep fry your next turkey.
How To: Cook a delicious Italian chicken marsala
Chicken recipes are popular in the home kitchen. This Chicken Marsala recipe is one of those quick and easy chicken recipes using wine and mushrooms. Chef Jason Hill of Chef Tips shows you how to cook Chicken Marsala. The ingredients are marsala wine, sherry wine, chicken, and mushroom. Learn how to make this Italian chicken marsala dish by watching this video cooking tutorial.
How To: Make Grill Cheese in the Toaster
Do you love grilled cheese? Who doesn't. This classic quick tip will have you enjoying a grilled cheese sandwich in less than 3 minutes using only your toaster.
How To: Make Your Homemade Chocolates Kick with Pop Rocks Candy Filling
If there's anything I've ascertained from all my candy-eating, it's that Pop Rocks are singularly the most awesome candy ever. The carbon dioxide gas that's mixed with the hard sugar forms a load of tiny, 600-psi bubbles, which vigorously release when they melt in your mouth.
How To: Brighten Up Your Party with These Cool Glow-in-the-Dark Cocktails
If you want to start the party out right, you have to impress the crowd with your awesome bartending skills. While lighting cocktails on fire is a nice way to warm up the crowd, it's been done by thousands of bartenders across the globe. Plus, if you're not careful, you could end up like this guy:
How To: Make Christmas cookie slices with candied fruits and peels
Do you love Christmas sweets but can't stand fruitcake because it's overly saccharine? Then perhaps this recipe will get you loving candied fruits in your desserts once again.
How To: Make Indian fusion sloppy Bombay Joes with Aarti Sequeira
There are certain comfort foods that make us happy and content no matter what happened that day. Even if we stubbed our big toe, broke up with our boyfriend, and got rear ended by another car on the way back from work, a nice, juicy sloppy Joe would still make us feel like we're in heaven.
How To: Make a paradise pineapple fruit dip with yogurt
Usually you dip fruit into dips, but did you know that you can use fruit to make dips as well? That's right, you can dip your favorite pinapple and mango slices into pineapple and mango dip if you want (sounds redundant, but hear us out here).
How To: Make the perfect Soufflé with Delia Smith of the BBC
In this BBC cookery clip Delia Smith reveals her secrets for making the perfect soufflé. Learn how to make the perfect soufflé.
How To: Make Campbell's style Maggi mee noodles
Maggi mee are a brand of noodles that if cooked wrong cook end up tasting pretty bad. Watch this how to video to learn a great way to quick fix your Maggi mee noodle recipes. Add some Campbell's soup cream of mushroom to your Maggi mee noodles for a great meal.
How To: Make fresh rolled sushi
Learn how to make delicious sushi like a real chef. You may think sushi is just raw fish, but you’d only be half right. It’s actually the combination of fish and rice – and how it’s combined is an art form in itself.
How To: Make Indian lemon rice
Lemon Rice is one of the many rice dishes that are an integral part of South Indian Cuisine. It is a flavorful tangy twist to plain white rice.
How To: Make pumpernickel loaves and matzos
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make pumpernickel loaves of bread and matzos. Using a pastry knife work the dough to a silky consistency. Make pumpernickel loaves and matzos.
How To: Can pâtés, meatloaf and fish
In this David and Andrea will show you how
How To: Make Homemade Vanilla Frosting from Scratch
This is a great quick and easy recipe and a great healthy alternative to store-bought frosting. My husband and children love this frosting, and it's also a hit at my PTA meetings. It goes great on cakes, cupcakes, cookies, or anything you desire to put frosting on.
How To: Make traditional French bread
In this "Baking With Julia" episode, Julia Child demonstrates how to make traditional French bread. Use terra cotta tiles to bake the loaf in the oven. Make traditional French bread.
How To: Make profiteroles with the Barefoot Contessa
In this tutorial, learn how to make delicious French profiteroles for dessert with Ina Garten of the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa.
How To: Make 'Hall's Snappy Beer Cheese' with Betty
In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make a Kentucky favorite, Hall's Snappy Beer Cheese! This spread is the perfect side to any Southern dish and is best serves with Saltines and veggies for dipping. You are sure to enjoy this messy, gooey snack.
How To: Make Your Own Red Bull Energy Drink at Home—Minus All of the Chemicals
Most people need their morning pick-me-up to get the day started right. There's a Starbucks on every corner and caffeine "shots" are sold in convenience stores everywhere. Even Mountain Dew is getting in on the action with its new KickStart "breakfast" drink (whatever that means). With a whopping 5% real fruit juice!
How To: Use, warm and heat up a tortilla warmer in the microwave
A tortilla warmer is a traditional way to keep your tortillas warm at the table. This tutorial shows you a quick and easy way to warm up your tortillas and the warmer in the microwave. Make sure not to microwave the lid!
How To: Eat Green Mangoes in the Vietnamese Tradition
In this tutorial, we learn how to properly eat green mangoes the Vietnamese way. The ingredients you need are: washed cold green mangoes, a peeler, a plate, sugar, a spoon, a bowl, and fish sauce. First, peel your mango until it's all the way free of the skin and cut the mango into slices. Now, in your small bowl you will pour in fish sauce and add in sugar, then mix together. Now, you can dip your mangoes into the sauce and eat as much as you like! This is a delicacy in Vietnam and how they ...
How To: Make chocolate ganache frosting with Rose Beranbaum
Rose Levy Beranbaum demonstrates how to make a simple and delicious chocolate ganache frosting, and gives tips for frosting the cake. Only two ingredients are needed - 12 ounces of semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, whichever you prefer, and 1 2/3 cups of heavy cream. Grate the chocolate in the food processor, then with the motor running pour in the cream, and it’s done. However, it needs to sit for a few hours to thicken. You can refrigerate it but don’t stir it.
How To: Make a no-ferment, no-smoke thuringer sausage
This is a short video teaching you how to make a no-ferment, no-smoke thuringer sausage using a domestic oven. The process excludes the addition of coarse ground venison to the recipe which works to improve the texture. This clip is concentrated on the mixing and cooking process in a residential environment. Additional comments on pH are included. Stuffing, slicing and packing are touched on lightly using a 9" commercial slicer and residential vacuum sealer. The recipe is available at the end.
How To: Open a Hershey's Kiss the Right Way
In this video and food hack tutorial, you will learn how to open a Hershey's Kiss The Right Way . The correct way to open Hershey's kisses is probably not what you think.
How To: Cover a square shaped cake with fondant
Most cakes are round, so it's only natural that most cake decorating tutorials only focus on how to ice and apply fondant to round cakes. But sometimes you want to think outside of the box by decorating, ironically, a box-shaped cake instead.
How To: Trim lamb shoulder
In this video, we learn how to trim a lamb shoulder with Lidia Bastianich. Start off with your raw piece of meat laid out in front of you. You will want to trim the meat around the outside where the most fat lies. Remove the fat that is excessive with a sharp knife. Cut as close to the bone as possible, then trim off the excess fat. Remember, some fat is good to keep on the meat for flavor. Cut the meat into cubes after you have removed the fat from it. Once finished, you will be able to roas...