Hot Fruit How-Tos
How To: Make cherry samosas with Hell's Kitchen Gordon Ramsay
Watch as Gordon Ramsay comes into your kitchen to show you how to cook like pro. Tonight he makes cherry compote samosas with clotted cream. Never thought you'd eat samosas like this huh? They are delicious! Make cherry samosas with Hell's Kitchen Gordon Ramsay.
How To: Make a fancy melon bowl
This is a simple, creative way to decorate your fruit salad - put it in a melon bowl!
How To: Deseed a pomegranate with this secret trick
This is a short, but hopefully useful demo for how to remove all those pomegranate kernels without a big mess.
How To: Make cream of papaya
A classic dessert at any Churrascaria, Cream of Papaya is not only delicious but also aids digestion as Papaya contains enzymes which soften and break down red meat. Cucaâ??s Tip: Supermarkets are the worse place to buy ripe fruit. Try your local street market or Indian grocery.
How To: Make lamb curry with lime and mango
Lamb is perfect for Indian cooking. Its flavor stands up well against spices like curry and chili. This easy lamb curry recipe will show you how to make a fruity curry lamb using 4 lamb chump chops. Make lamb curry with lime and mango.
How To: Suprême a citrus
When you suprême a citrus fruit, you cut away all the skin, pith, and membranes, leaving the sections of the fruit intact. It's not suprêmely difficult, but it takes some care. Suprême a citrus.
How To: Get the seeds out of pomegranates
Pomegranates are the super food of the moment. In season through the winter, they are rich in Vitamin C, among others. Here's the easiest way to get the seeds out.
How To: Zest and juice a lemon
Learn how to juice a lemon.
How To: Grow a pear in a bottle
Spring is just around the corner, and for you pear growers, here's a thorough step by step demonstration on how to grow pears in a bottle. Ed adds a brandy after he collects his 'pear in a bottle' and hands them out at the holidays to just a handful of friends. Oh to be so lucky!
How To: Make an orple half orange half apple
Never heard of an Orple? You have now. Inventor Lynn shares her secret of how to make an Orple with the rest of the world. It's half orange, half apple, and all delicious! It is great for your child's school lunch!
How To: Make fresh mango pickle
This Fresh Mango Pickle is from South India and is called Maangaa Curry or Maangai Keeru In Tamil. Watch and see how to make this raw mango treat.
How To: Make mango dal
If you love mangos but go to the store and find them too unripe to purchase, buy them anyway and make mango dal! Mango dal is an Indian dish of unripe mangoes cooked with yellow lentil.
How To: Cut fruit
In this video series, our expert will teach you how to prepare and cut a variety of fruit. Get expert advice on preparing pineapple, oranges and papayas.
How To: Make toffee apples
Deliciously sweet and sticky toffee apples. A classic treat for the whole family. These must be tried to be appreciated. Delight in this Toffee Apples recipe. Make toffee apples.
How To: Make rich and sweet Thai fried bananas
Try fried bananas, Thai-style! With few ingredients and a short cooking time, you won't believe how delicious this simple dessert will be. You will need frozen spring roll pastry wrappers, bananas and cooking oil for frying. Serve the bananas warm. For a special dessert, top them with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.
How To: Make caramel candy apples
Want to satisfy your sweet tooth? This recipe for decadent caramel candy apples is simple and whips up fast. You will need ripe red apples, store-bought caramel, water, chopped peanuts, wooden skewers, a double boiler and cupcake papers. Kids love this special treat.
How To: Make candied citrus
This decadent recipe makes the perfect decoration for many desserts and its combination of sweet and tart will excite your taste buds! Relish this Candied Citrus recipe. Make candied citrus.
How To: Make candy apples
In this video series, watch as Chef J. Costilla teaches how to make candy apples. Learn the different ingredients for candy apples, how to pick apples for candy apples, how to combine syrup and water, how to make a chilling sheet, how to wash ad dry apples, how to insert stick in a candy apple, how to make caramel apples, how to make rocky road apples, and how to chill the candy apples. Candy apples are easy to make using this quick and easy step by step candy apple recipe from the experts at...
How To: Prepare figs
Roasting figs with port makes delicious appetizer, or dessert. Fig season is from the end of June to the end of August.
How To: Cut a mango easily
This video will show you how to cut a mango easily.
How To: Prepare pomegranates
"Preparing Pomegranates" Video Food Tip of the WeekPreparing pomegranates can be a pain. All those arils (that's the delicious, juicy part that covers the seed) squirt on your clothes while the papery white pith sticks to your fingers -- and everything else. Save yourself some hassle by prying open pomegranates over a bowl of water. The heavy arils will sink to the bottom while the pith and the spongy skin of the fruit will float -- making it easy to skim them off the surface.
How To: Prepare banana in coconut milk
For this Thai dessert which will serve one person you will need banana, coconut milk, sugar, salt and water. Prepare banana in coconut milk.
How To: Peel and slice mango, kiwi and passion fruits
Martha Stewart answers questions about serving tropical fruit. Allow mangos to ripen; when it's ready it will give slightly when pressed. As with any other fruit, make sure to smell it first, good ones will have a fragrant aroma. Choose kiwis that are large and plump and give slightly to gentle pressure. Passion fruit is ripe when it has a wrinkled, dimpled purple skin. Peel and slice mango, kiwi and passion fruits.
How To: Make green mangos with chili, salt and sugar
A good snack to prepare is green mangos with chili. It is found on every street corner in Malaysia. You will need green mangos, sugar, coarse salt and dried Thai chiles. Make green mangos with chili, salt and sugar.
How To: Eat watermelon
Petey Greene shows you how to be yourself and eat watermelon. In this clip from civil rights activist Petey Greene's Washington DC television program in the Spring of 1982, Greene explains how to eat watermelon. Utterly bizarre. Also, pointers on eating corn and fried chicken.
How To: Peel a tomato
How to peel a tomato. I didn't learn it here, but this is one of the best I've seen on how it's done other than with my own personal touch. Enjoy fresh tomato sauce or salsa!
How To: Cut a mango properly
Mango is a great tasting fruit but it can be a real hassle to cut and eat because of the stone in the middle. Watch this tutorial to find out how to properly cut that tasty tropical fruit, the mango.
How To: Peel and cut an apple
Watch this instructional video to learn the proper way to cut and peel an apple. Along with an apple all you need are 2 knives, a Japanese one and a pear one, and a corer.
How To: Make carbonated fruit
Learn how to make fruit that crackles and fizzes in your mouth. The process is a mix of science and cooking that employs the use of dry ice. This is a narrated video that also discusses the necessary safety precautions of using dry ice.
How To: Make oven-dried fruit chips
Chef Charlie Trotter demonstrates how to make oven-dried fruit chips; Fruit slices oven dried to a perfect crisp. He slices banana, apple, and strawberry before putting them in the oven. Make oven-dried fruit chips.
How To: Peel apples
Though apple skins are healthy, some recipes call for peeled apples. These apple peeling tips will show you how to remove the skin safely and efficiently. The first thing that you will need is a sharp paring knife. Now, before we continue, a quick safety tip: Whenever you are using a sharp knife you always want to cut with the blade facing away from you. If you are cutting with the blade toward yourself and you slip you will increase your chances of an accident.
How To: Test if an avocado is ripe
This video explains the little known secreting to testing avocados. Simply hold upside down at the base, apply light pressure, and...well you have to watch the video. Learn right from the tree farm. Test if an avocado is ripe.
How To: Juice a lemon
Lean the best and quickest way to get the most juice out of your lemon. This video shows you two different tricks for maximizing the "juice output" of a lemon when you cut it. One you may know, the other we think will be a surprise!
How To: Open a coconut and make coconut milk
Fresh coconuts can look a bit intimidating but in just a few easy steps you too can be enjoying both the milk and the meat of this delicious fruit. Coconuts' peak season is from October through December. You should be able to hear the liquid inside and it should feel heavy for its size. Check for three eyes, at the smaller end of the coconut. They should look intact and there should not be any cracks or damage to
How To: Make fresh homemade applesauce
Making applesauce at home gives it a fresh flavor that you can modify with a number of ingredients. Try these tips for homemade applesauce. You will need 1 apple per serving of applesauce. You should use an apple that won't discolor easily, like Cortland, Golden Delicious, Ida Red and McIntosh. You will also need water, sugar and lemon juice.
How To: Carve a watermelon basket
Using food as a platter or bowl to serve food in is a genius idea. Because once you're done digging into the fruit salad inside this watermelon, you can then eat the "bowl"! Well, maybe not the rind. But you get the point.
How To: Eat a pomegranate without making a mess
Pomegranates are high in antioxidants and pack a strong, tangy flavor, but how in the world do you open them without making a mess? Learn how to open pomegranates, and also how to make juice from the ruby-red seeds inside. You can eat the seeds just as they are. If you want to make pomegranate juice, you can throw the seeds in a blender. Or for a quick and fun way, you can also place them into a plastic freezer bag. Remove most of the air, seal the zipper, and use a rolling pin to break the s...
How To: Cut a cantaloupe
A subtly sweet melon, cantaloupe is a refreshing summertime snack. See the different ways to cut a cantaloupe, from chunks to slices. You know your cantaloupe is ripe when it: yields to slight pressure, has yellowish skin, has a fresh aroma at the end where the stem was attached, has a healthy outer rind free of tears or cuts. Be sure to refrigerate the sliced melon in plastic bags or airtight containers within 2 hours of cutting it.
How To: Make fried eggplant fingers
Eggplants are especially delicious fried into finger shapes that are both nutritious and fun to eat for the whole family. Eggplant is a popular fruit that can be served in a variety of ways.
How To: Cut kiwi
Kiwi is quite the ironic fruit. It's to-die-for exotic sweetness is countered by it's very difficult exterior, which is rough and soemtimes hard to scrape off. Luckily, this food tutorial will run you through several ways to choose, peel, and slice kiwis.