How-To Guides about Food

Liv Hansen from Betty Crocker Kitchens demonstrates how to make an adorable train cake. You will need two cakes that have been baked in loaf pans and chilled.

Properly carving roast beef is very important in determining how tender the meat is after you have cooked it. Determining which way the muscle grain flows is essential so you can cut across the grain when carving the roast beef. You only want to carve the amount of meat you will eat. If you carve more than you need and put it in the refrigerator, it will cause the meat to dry out. Putting the meat in the fridge as a large block rather than slicing it is better. So, for $9–$10, you can have an...

There are a few julienne peelers on the market, but how do they work. Watch this how to video for a quick demonstration on the proper or way to utilize a julienne peeler.

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...

What kind of cake goes best with the Super Bowl? If you guessed a football-shaped cake, you guessed right. In this video recipe, Betty Crocker shows you how to whip up a super easy American football cake that's also a pull-apart cake, because Super Bowl fans don't have time to slice and serve.

Watch this instructional video to learn how to cook pizza on a gas BBQ. All you need is any standard bread mix, garlic, tomato sauce, toppings, and three empty tomato cans.

These videos show you how to use baking strips to make a better cake. Use caution when using baking strips, and watch your oven carefully.

This warm and comforting dish makes great use of the fall season's most prized and beloved vegetables: the pumpkin. Thinking about carving up some eerie jack-o-lanterns? Remember to save the seeds!

Cooking perfect pasta isn't hard. Then again, cooking mushy or crunchy noodles is dangerously easy. Watch this how-to video from Howcast to learn how to cook pasta al dente.

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will teach you how to make Amazing cinnamon rolls from scratch. Cinnamon rolls are one of my favorite treats. You can eat them for breakfast, you can eat cinnamon rolls for a snack or as a dessert! These cinnamon rolls are super tasty, super easy to make, and super cheap. Let's dive into the fantastic world of baking and bake some crazy awesome cinnamon rolls.

In order to make Oven Roasted Chicken, you will need the following ingredients: a whole chicken, butter or oil, salt, pepper, thyme, rosemary, and garlic.

What could be more perfect for a summertime barbecue than an All-American flag cake? This sponge cake is easy to make and covered in berries to give it a fresh, warm-weather flavor. If you need a dessert for Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, this is the perfect one for you. Start from scratch with the Food Network's Ina Garten, aka the famous Barefoot Contessa, in this clip.

Bald Eagles are an endangered symbol of America. If you want to celebrate them without actually having one, live or dead (either is illegal) watch this video to learn how to make cute little Oreo Bald Eagles, a dessert for American patriots.

This video will show you how to make a great banana smoothie. The ingredients include ice, sugar, bananas etc.

Many of you may already know that Soy milk is low on fat but at the same naturally high in proteins, essential fatty acids, and fibers. But if you're like me and can't stand the taste of Soy milk alone then I'll show you how to make it delicious by adding apples and cinnamon powder in this Apple Cinnamon Soya Shake recipe.

Sautéed mushrooms and boiled green peas simmered in creamy, spicy onion-tomato gravy. Mushroom mutter gravy is typical a North Indian gravy. It is made from onion and tomato. it is spiced up with regular spices. Just like other vegetables, these mushrooms are also healthy and nutritious, good for our body.

Want to make a caramel macchiato like a champion barista? This clip from Mahalo will show you how to recreate one of Starbuck's signature drinks.

Evy demonstrates how to make a fall apart tender pork roast in the crack pot, in this video. The main ingredient is a pork butt weighing 4 pounds. Pork butt, as she points out is actually the shoulder piece. Also needed are,1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce,3/4 cup of light brown sugar and 1/2 cup apple juice .To start cooking ,put the pork into the pot and pour the sauce over the top of the meat and coat the entire piece. Now create a crust on the meat using the brown sugar by applying it all over....

Yup, so I turned them vegan. The full recipe can be found here, or you can watch the video that I made on YouTube. Take a look at the ingredients below the video.

The first thing that should be done when icing a cake with buttercream frosting is to wrap the cake in plastic wrap and chill it in the freezer. This will ensure that when you trim the top of the cake there will not be as many crumbs. After triming the top of the cake to make it even, turn the cake over so that the bottom of the cake is now the top. Now take a piping bag filled with buttercream frosting fitted with a large basket weave tip and pipe horizontally going around the entire cake.

Cook yourself up something hearty and nutritious with this beetroot salad from Show Me The Curry. The only ingredients you need are: beetroot, peanuts, cilantro, green chiles, onions, cumin and lemon juice. It's basically as simple as cooking up the beetroot and mixing the ingredients together to marry all of the flavors together. This video will show you to make beetroot salad.

Gazpacho isn't all tomatoes! This wonderful gazpacho summertime soup has tomatoes and it has roasted red peppers and garlic. It's the perfect summer treat during a hot day in the sun. Check out the video recipe for all the steps to preparing this Spanish-style soup.

If you've got a Lego lover at home whose got a birthday party coming up, instead of going out to the grocery store and getting one of those store bought cakes, make your own! And heck, make them into Lego bricks! In this great video you will learn how to make Lego brick cakes just in time for that birthday party!

Getting your tenderloin steak trimmed at the butcher is what most of us do when we're craving steak for the night, but why spend the extra bucks when you can trim that tenderloin at home?

From Thanksgiving turkeys to grilled chicken, basting helps add incomparable moisture, tenderness, and flavor to any dish. So if you've never basted before and would like to experience the oily awesomeness that is basted food, check out this food video for a tutorial using chicken and melted butter as an example.

Shucking an oyster is something we usually leave to our significant other to do (Sharp knife combined with a supertight oyster shell opening? BAD idea for someone with sausage fingers). But after watching this video we're convinced it's easier than we think.

Cantaloupes are most in season during the summer, so enjoy these sweet and juicy fruits while they're still ripe! If you're afraid of cutting one apart—or just don't know how to—check out this food tutorial to learn how to remove a cantaloupe's skin and then slice it up.

At first an avocado looks intimdating to cut. It's kind of squishy and has this huge pit in the center that you just don't know what to do with. So if you've never cut an avocado before, check out this food video by Serious Eats to learn how to cleverly cut, pit, and slice one for optimal presentation.

Now that fall has officially begun, corn is soon to be in season and will be abundant and ripe at most supermarkets and local farmers markets. So if you're looking forward to making corn chowder or tossing some in a slad, simplify the task by checking out this knife skills video.

This food tutorial presents one of the most important and widely used cooking skills you'll ever need to know: how to cook eggs over easy. Eggs are pretty much standard for breakfast and are used in a variety of other recipes, so it's important to know how to cook them well.

Improve your knife and cooking skills in the kitchen by learning to prepare chicken paillards (pounded chicken cutlets) from whole skinless, boneless chicken breasts in this instructional video. Ingredients needed are a cutting board, a chef's knfe and a boneless chicken breast with the tenderloin removed.

Cutting beef for a stir fry is entirely different from cutting a slab of steak to grill. Stir frys are made from a mixture of many bite-sized ingredients, so meat likewise has to come in small chunks.

This how to video will take you through the steps of learning how to cover a cake with rolled fondant. It is not as difficult as it may seem. Fondant gives a real professional finish to a cake. Watch this video baking tutorial and learn how to decorate a cake with fondant.

Cutting up an orange or a lemon seems pretty easy. You just take it out, cut off the ends (if you're working with a lemon), and slice it up, right? Wrong. If you want to create a professional presentation for your citrus fruits, there's a very specific way for peeling and cutting a fruit so that you create pith- and membrane-free segments.

This is a demonstration of covering and decorating a cake with fondant. The cake is chilled and kept aside for covering. Fondant is bought from a cake decorating shop in bulk of about one pound as less is hardly available. The fondant is kneeded like a bread dough and made smooth and soft. The dough is rolled by a rolling pin after spraying a little corn starch on both sides so that it does not stick to the table or the rolling pin. It is rolled upto a thickness of 1/4" to 1/8" thick if the...