Vidoe of the Day: Interview with Chef Ming Tsai and Others

Chef Ming Tsai should have been on this season of Iron Chef and was screwed last season, IMHO. Any chef that scores a guest spot on Arthur, one of the greatest cartoons ever to grace PBS, should definitely be an Iron Chef! I'm still angry on his behalf. :-/

Video of the Day: Making Ravioli Using Wonton Wrappers

Cooking is just as much about technique as it is about the recipe and ingredients. If you screw up on the technique side, then no one will taste your ingredients.  So please try to forget that demonstration in this video is being done by a dude sporting a mohawk and boys scout uniform, and just check his technique using wonton wrappers to make raviolis. Then try your hand at my Bake Ravioli Recipe Part 1 - the Filling and Part 2 - the Preparation, and tell me what you think!

LET'S GET COOKING!

Video of the Day: Rocco DiSpirito

I wasn't too crazy about his restaurant reality show a few years back, but his Dinner Party show on Bravo is awesome!

Video of the Day: Making Beurre Blanc

More sauces to wet your whistle! So many options so little time to try them all! Enjoy this video!

Video of the Day: How to Make Compound Butter

Chef Susan Odell is back again with more cooking techniques!

Video of the Day: How to Peel A Clove of Garlic

I love garlic! Before I became a student of Food Network, Cooking Channel, and various shows on PBS something as simple as peeing a garlic was much more complicated than it needed to be. I'm a huge fan of the smash and peel method. How do you peel garlic? ENJOY this video! :-)

Video of the Day: Tyler Florence

There isn't a dish Tyler Florence has made that I haven't imagined myself eating! I miss his cooking show on Food Network...the food truck show just isn't enough. :-(

Video of the Day: How to Use a Pressure Cooker

Have you ever watched a competition cooking show and saw the contestant chef fumble around with the pressure cooker? Maybe their under quite a bit of pressure, but shouldn't they know how they use these things? What are they teaching them in cooking school???  Innywhoo...I'm not chef, maybe you're not either, so here's a video for the rest of us to we don't blow up our house and hurt ourselves. ENJOY this video! :-)

Video of the Day: How to Peel A Tomato

Let's try to avoid canned vegetables while the fresh beautiful ones are available to us in the supermarket.  Fresh peeled tomatoes are a super easy replacement for the canned version. 

While many of my recipes include canned ingredients,  in reality the canned ingredients are for the convenience of you, my readers only.  Please always feel free to use fresh ingredients in place of those canned by the mass producers.  Canned by you at home? I'm all for it! ENJOY this video! :-)

Video of the Day: Cedar Planks Basics

We're in South Florida, so it's always grilling season, actually.  With the Super Bowl fast approaching my brother and I are putting together our menu. Undoubtedly a bunch of stuff is going on the grill and cedar planks will be our secret weapon for grilling up the perfect fish!

Video of the Day: The Deen Brother

I love these brothers, almost as much as I love their Momma! These guys would be friends in my heads if they weren't such devout Georgia Bulldog fans...GO GATORS! :-)

Video of the Day: How to Make Chicken Broth

Chicken stock is made from primarily bones, but stock made with wings and backs and the meat still attached is still in the stock family. Chicken broth, on the other hand, is made from meat and has a richer consistency in comparison. Enjoy this Broth how video!

Video of the Day: How to Make Chicken Stock

I suppose you can just buy the boxed or canned stuff, but this is soooooo easy. When ever I make chicken I use stock from the bones of the prepared chicken, broth from the poaching liquid from cooking the meat.  Chef Ramsay has a great technique video on making chicken stock. ENJOY this video!

Video of the Day: Fruit Detox - Recovering from the Holidays

Beginning January 2nd (January 1st is Mom's Seafood Extravaganza) I'm going to do some kind of pseudo fruit-veggie detox deal for 30 day.  I already know I won't be perfect but this is my way of making an effort to change my eating habits and making a change or 2 in my life. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to take it one day at a time. I'm not going to call this a New Year's resolution...more like another attempt at a new me...

Video of the Day: Ideas for Your Christmas Leftovers

Christmas leftovers, as plentiful as Thanksgiving leftovers...what to do what to do?  ENJOY some of these ideas! :-D

Video of the Day: How to Season A Cast Iron Pan

I have a fear of owning cast iron cookware because the seasoning process is a bit, i dunno...I mean, who seasons cookware as opposed to food. Then I can't just use soap to clean it? Well, in 2012, I'm going to take that 1st step and buy a cast iron griddle! I'm so excited! ENJOY this video!

UPDATE 12/26/2011: My uncle and his wife got me a cast iron griddle for Christmas!!!  WHOOOOO-HOOOO!!!  I'm jumpin in feet first and I'm gonna season up this bad boy before I put it use! YAY!!!!

Video of the Day: Making Mayonnaise

I've always heard that mayo is just emulsified eggs and oil. I looked at my jar of mayo, and I see a few more things than just eggs and oil.  Try this technique for making homemade mayo and tell me what you think! ENJOY this video!

Video of the Day: Christmas Desserts

There's always room for dessert! There will be quite a few, but my cousin at My Loaves of Love will definitely come with some DEE-LISH sweet treats! I'm so excited! ENJOY this video! :-)

Video of the Day: How to Roast Garlic

I love garlic! I love roasted garlic soooo much more!  The sweet smooth roasted flavor is great in almost any savory dish! Garlic, generally, is one of my favorite ingredients to add in any savory dish. Even dishes that don't necessarily call for it get a hit of garlic anyway!

Today's video is a short basic clip on how to roast garlic. Funny enough, while looking for garlic clips I began chatting with a fellow foodie about her roasted garlic technique. She roasts a bunch at a time, uses what she needs for her dish today, and puts the unused roasted whole bulb of garlic in a zip lock and freezes it for when she needs it later! Now, when I have conversations like that I fee like I'm having a *UH DUH* moment, instead of an *AH HA* moment!I hope you enjoy this clip!

Video of the Day: Christmas Main Dishes

I love Christmas! This year, my family is not hosting dinner, but we are bringing a delicious turkey and sides dishes to add to a feast for 20 Caribbean folks!  I think someone's also bringing a ham...I'm being measured for my feedbag as we speak, and I'll be ready to eat like a pig for Christmas! Is that what the holidays are all about? Plus, if I didn't do this what would be on my New Year's Resolution?

Innywho...still not sure what the show stopper of your Christmas dinner will be? This video may give you a few more ideas...ENJOY this video!  :-)