How To: Pickle jalapeno and Anaheim peppers at home
Pickled peppers are a great way to preserve your garden harvest. From spicy to sweet, this recipe will be a great treat on a cold winter day. Pickling jalapeño peppers, Anaheims, bell peppers really, any pepper is good for pickling. This how to video shows you an easy pickling recipe that requires very little time and won't keep you in the kitchen canning all day.
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: Mince Garlic & Keep It from Sticking to Your Knife
Need to know how to mince garlic without having it stick to your knife? Then you need this quick guide from The Kitchn. With the proper technique, chopping garlic can be easy. So easy, in fact, that this free video cooking lesson can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information, and to get started mincing garlic yourself, take a look.
How To: Make spicy sweet potatoes with Martha Stewart
Sweet potatoes are served by the ton on Thanksgiving, but these juicy and candied root vegetables are just as enjoyable the rest of the year with the right recipe.
How To: Make brown sugar topped baked sweet potatoes
Mmmmmm. We all wish it was Thanksgiving every day with this delectable baked sweet potato. Betty puts a great spin on a traditional side dish with her unique toppings.
How To: Make a radish rosette to garnish your food
Radish rosettes are an elegant and beautiful way to garnish any savory dish - and fortunately, they are also easy to make! This video shows you a quick and easy method to carve a few rosettes out of large radishes, using a small paring knife. Dress up any salad or veggie platter with this technique!
How To: Make mashed potatoes with Snoop Dogg & Martha Stewart
In this video, we learn how to make mashed potatoes with Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart First, skin your potatoes until the skin is completely off of the potatoes. Then, cut your potatoes into chunks and place into a mixer with a stick of butter. Then, add in 8 oz of cream cheese to the mixture while keeping the mixer going. Add in 1/4 cup of milk and 1/4 c of cream along with salt to taste. Keep beating the mixture until they are really soft and creamy. These are great to serve during the hol...
How To: Cook collard greens with ham
In an episode of Cooking with Dave, viewers are shown how to cook collard greens with ham! First, in a pot on medium high put a little olive oil and garlic in the bottom of the pan (about 2 teaspoons). Put a whole chopped onion to add flavor! Stir all ingredients in the pot so far. Before you can cook the collard greens you have to clean them in the sink using water and stripping the leaves from the stem (throwing away the stem). Wash the leaves in the sink in water, even ripping up the leave...
How To: Make Restaurant Quality French Fries at Home
Ever try and make french fries at home? How did they turn out? In this tutorial, I will show you how to make amazing french fries at home.
How To: Cook fresh pumpkin flowers
To cook pumpkin flowers you need some pumpkin flowers and some of the smaller more tender leaves from the pumpkin patch. First thing is to take off the little spiny things from the base of the flower. Then you want to pop the top of the flower off at base of the stem. Remember to save the stems, open up the flower gently and pluck out the thing in the middle. You want to pick off the spinets on the back of leaves, wash them rubbing them to soften the leaves up. Then you would take the stem an...
How To: Clean and used dried chiles
In this video from Gourmet Magazine, Ian Knauer shows us how to clean and use dried chilies. Chile de arbol is the spiciest. To make a great hot sauce, boil about 40 of these with the seeds in and blend with some garlic and water. Next is the chipotle chili. You can often find these in a can but they are more potent when fresh. The larger the chili, the less heat it contains. An ancho is like a poblano. A guajillo is often paired with an ancho in a recipe or an adobo sauce because they comple...
How To: Chop an onion the right way into even squares
Your onion deserves better. And even, parallel slices are the way to clean onion geometry. Follow along with this cooking how-to video to learn how to chop an onion the right way, into nice even squares.
How To: Cook spicy green beans
Spicy green beans are a great source of nutrition that is very delicious. Learn how to make them in this cooking how-to video. This side dish of spicy green beans goes great with an Asian style dinner. Follow along as our host shows you how to prepare the beans, the spicy sauce and how to to cook them all together.
How To: Make potato curry with yogurt gravy
Watch as Manjula shows you how to prepare a delicious potato curry with yogurt gravy. For this recipe you will need:
How To: Prepare Mushroom Matar in Cashewnut Paste
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.
How To: Burn Your Tomatoes and Make an Amazing Dish!
This recipe is inspired by Francis Mallmann's book "seven fires" Creating a simple and elegant dish on the grill, cooked over coals.
How To: Best Roasted Veggies Recipe
This is perfect when you feel like eating something healthy, but don't have the courage to slave away in the kitchen! Just follow the easy steps in this video and that's it!
How To: Make Baked Zucchini Chips
Don't you just love snack food? Me too! but as I get older I notice how the small food choices I make affect my belly. So how do we get over this potato chip world? Easy make your own chips. This recipe with Zucchini is not only a healthier option but also delicious.
How To: Make a Great Broccoli with Breadcrumbs Side Dish
Learn how to prepare and make a great broccoli with bread crumbs side dish. This is a fast easy way to bring some life to your broccoli.
How To: Make Black Beans Perfect Every Time
I had such a hard time making black beans until I met the slow cooker. With this magic device I was able to make the deliciousness I was after. In this post I look to show you how to make black beans perfect every time
How To: Make Pirkiyan for Holi
This is a new type of sweet dish that tastes really good, created by a simple Indian women named Mrs. Uma Verma.
How To: Make Vegan Latkes Potato Pancakes
Just in time for Hanukkah! my easy vegan latke recipe (potato pancakes). You can find the full printable recipe here or you can watch me make them on YouTube in the video below. You'll find the ingredient list below the video.
How To: Make Cream of Carrot and Red Lentil Soup
Make your own cream of carrot and red lentil soup, it's easy to make!
How To: Peel and Cut an Avocado
Avocados are awesome and delicious, especially when you make guacamole out of them. But to take off the skin, chop, and cut it up, preparing an avocado can get tedious. So with this tutorial, I hope that I can provide you with a simple and easy way to peel and cut your avocados in the future.
How To: Slice, Dice, and Chop an Onion
This is another video on the right way to cut and prepare vegetables and fruits. In this one I outline what is the best way to cut, dice, and chop an onion before you cook it. It will definitely help you prepare a delicious meal. Hope you enjoy it as well.
How To: Make Gratin of Fennel & Yellow Potatoes with Hubert Keller
Ingredients 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut in 1/4-inch cubes, divided
How To: Make Baked Mashed Potatoes with Hubert Keller
Ingredients 4 pounds Yukon gold or russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
How To: Make French Cut Green Beans with Shallots with Hubert Keller
Ingredients 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed, cut to fit feed tube horizontally
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 Roasted Asparagus with Toasted Pistachios with Hubert Keller
Try this recipe for roasted asparagus drizzled in lemon, shallots, and toasted pistachios. It's a healthy and delicious side dish to any main meal, you won't be disappointed!
How To: Make Kale Chips
Buy some delicious fresh kale from your local grocer or farmer's market. Rip the kale into bite-sized, potato-chip-style pieces.
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: Cook Stir-fried Baguio Beans (Green Beans)
This meal has become one of my favorites among stir-fried vegetables, since I first tasted it from one of my friend's recipe. But his original recipe consists only of oil, baguio beans and soy sauce. So, I experimented with it to improve its taste further, which brings us to my recipe for stir-fried baguio beans with kalamansi twist.
How To: Easily, Quickly, & Safely Cut a Variety of Vegetables
Most recipes usually don't call for whole vegetables, which means that if you're learning to cook, you'll eventually have to learn how to cut vegetables.
How To: Make a delicious vegetarian cassoulet stew
A perfect vegetarian version of a delicious stew! For this recipe, you will need: 1 large chopped onion, 1 large chopped leek, 3 chopped carrots, 1/4 cup olive oil, 4 minced garlic cloves, 14 ounces diced tomatoes, 4 tablespoons tomato paste, 3/4 pound white beans, 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar + 1/2 cup water (or 1 cup dry white wine), thyme, vegetable stock, 1 cup breadcrumbs and 1 sliced baguette. Make a delicious vegetarian cassoulet stew.
How To: Make crispy and seasoned hash browns
Just like you can get in a diner! Perfect to serve with eggs. For this recipe, you will need: 1 medium peeled russet potato, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon dried garlic, 1 teaspoon dried thyme, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, a box grater and some butter for frying. Make crispy and seasoned hash browns.
How To: Make cheddar stuffed tater tots at home
Potatoes and cheese, a match made in heaven! For this recipe, you will need: 2 medium peeled russet potatoes, 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 4 ounces of cubed cheddar cheese, salt and pepper to taste and canola oil for frying. Make cheddar stuffed tater tots at home.
How To: Make your own delicious tater tots at home
A perennial kid's favorite, the tater tot! Why buy overprocessed food when it's so easy to make your own at home? All you need is: 10 peeled and diced potatoes, 8 cups of water, 1 pound of butter, 4 cups of flour, 4 whole eggs, 4 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 cup of potato flakes. Make your own delicious tater tots at home.
How To: Make restaurant style steamed artichokes
All you need for this recipe are some fresh trimmed artichokes, melted butter, a steamer basket and some scissors. Steam your artichokes until they are deliciously tender, then enjoy peeling the leaves off one by one and eating them with the butter. Make restaurant style steamed artichokes.