Rick Stein teaches you how to open a packet of pasta in a true Italian style whilst talking through a delicious spaghetti carbonara with pecorino cheese and pancetta. Great recipe clip from BBC cookery show 'Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escape'. Garlic, parsley, pancetta, eggs, pecorino and spaghetti. Quick and simple to make!
Chef Ken Hom shows how to cook Chilli Pork Spare Ribs. Great clip from BBC show Ken Hom's Cookery. Learn how to make chilli pork spare ribs.
Keith Floyd, favorite British chef, talks through a traditional Alsace recipe for liver dumplings in this classic video from BBC food show 'Floyd on France'.
British bombshell Kiera Knightly loves wearing her chestnut colored strands in an updo. But since the lean actress is a fan of indie-inspired, bohemian chic, she never makes her hair looks overdone or overstyled.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a planet with exaggerated features, similar to things you may have seen in advertising for Lloyds TSB, British Gas or Chrysler. For more information, and to get started using this trick in your own Vue 6 xStream projects, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
Interested in making and using your own compost? Fortunately, as this home gardening guide from the British National Trust demonstrates, it's quite easy to do. So easy, in fact, that this gardener's guide can present a complete overview of the process in just under four minutes' time. For details, and to get started making your own rich, fertile soil from your own garden and food scraps, take a look.
Chef, Rachel Allen lets us in on her recipe for roasted haddock with lemon basil potato salad. Haddock is a very popular food fish, sold fresh, smoked, frozen, dried, or to a small extent canned. Haddock, along with cod and plaice, is one of the most popular fish used in British fish and chips. Fresh haddock has a fine white flesh and can be cooked in the same ways as cod.
It's no joke: British researchers spent six months shampooing 500 volunteers until they perfected the precise technique for lustrous locks. Learn how to wash your hair perfectly. You will need a shower, a thermometer, shampoo, measuring spoons, a stopwatch, conditioner, a wide toothed comb, and a towel.
Sprint orienteering tips from the first event of the 2007 Sussex Sprint Championships starring Nick Barrable (Ex-British Champion). Get tips and techniques that will help you improve at the fun outdoor adventure sport of sprint orienting.
Celebrity Chef Phil Vickery teaches in this video how to make a British favorite dish: sticky tofee pudding. This tradition dish is served warm and in often during the winter. Phil soaks the dates in boiling water and baking soda to bring out more of their flavor for the dish. While the dates are soaking, he starts creating the sponge part of the cake. With basic ingredients combined, he creates his sponge cake in a way more like a batter than your tradition method of making a sponge cake. Ne...
Homemade bone stock, onions, sugar, garlic, white wine are the key ingredients to make a delicious French Onion Soup. The simple recipe in this clip is from the BBC cookery series Delia Smith's Cookery Course.
Delia goes through her recipe for a tasty smoked haddock chowder in this classic BBC clip. Learn how to make smoked haddock chowder.
Chef Keith Floyd prepares a delicious Lagoustine and tomato recipe and a mussel, steamed clam and spinach gratin in this classic video from BBC cookery show 'Floyd on Fish'.
Chef Keith Floyd is in Cornwall to cook a portuguese dish al-fresco at a Naval Base. Delicious meal idea using pork, bacon, mussels, scallops, prawns, and cockles from BBC vintage cookery show 'Floyd on Food'.
Chef Keith Floyd cooks with red meat in this great easy to follow recipe video from BBC cookery show 'Floyd on Food'.
Keith Floyd cooks a Perigord-inspired feast of fat bacon soup, sweetbreads made of pancreas of veal with truffles and foie gras, and a goats cheese and walnut salad. Interesting recipe ideas from classic BBC cookery show 'Floyd on France'.
If you've ever seen Goldfinger you've probably wondered when we're going to get access to lasers that could cut a man in half. This might be it. Watch on to learn how you can, with some electrical engineering skills, make a DIY blue death ray laser gun that will cut through all kinds of stuff. No word on whether it works on British secret agents.
Shepherd's pie is such a staple that if you actually did mess it up, you had have the entire British Isles chasing you down to hang you ritualistically! But it's ok! In this fantastic video chef Jason Hill shows you how to make a great tasting Shepherd's Pie, and on top of it, he uses an alternative, healthier option for the meat by using ground turkey.
Operation fire-saw. The British Army use tips from Bushcraft & Survival Skills Magazine to boost morale in Afghanistan and to practise their firelighting skills using an article written by firelighting expert Dave Watson.
Make a great British classic with Sophie Grigson; the steak and kidney pudding makes for wonderful winter eating. You will need self-raising flour, salt, suet, beef steak, kidney, plain flour, mustard powder, onions, parsley, salt, and black pepper. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a steak and kidney pudding.
This classic dish is traditionally made with veal, but not today. Pork and prosciutto make a perfect pairing for this recipe from UKTV Food's New British Kitchen. Watch and learn how to cook pork wrapped in prosciutto.
Cook up a delicious Portuguese dessert called Pastel de natta, or simply custard tarts. Creamy custard tarts make a simple dessert after any dinner. Watch this how to video and learn how prepare and bake Portuguese custard tarts with UKTV Food's New British Kitchen.
Spice up dinner time a little goat curry straight from Jamaica. Watch this how to video and learn how to make this Caribbean curry from UKTV Food's New British Kitchen.
Tarka dahl is an Indian dish of curried lentils. Watch this how to video tutorial and learn how to make authentic Punjabi curried lentils with UKTV Food's New British Kitchen.
Forget going out to a sushi restaurant tonight. Instead stay at home and make your own sushi. Watch this how to video and learn how to make sushi with UKTV Food's New British Kitchen. Prepare sushi rice, cut your favorite sushi ingredients and wrap them with nori seaweed wrap.
Falconry is the art of hunting with a bird of prey. The British School of Falconry at Equinox in Manchester, Vermont shows how to handle eagles and other birds of prey. Birds are trained to respond to human signals and people are taught the correct procedure for interacting with these hunting birds. Learn how to handle a bird of prey by watching this instructional video.
In this how to video we look at abbreviation in English. Abbreviations make longer words faster to type and easier to say. This ESL lesson teaches you some common British abbreviations and how to use them. Abbreviations are constantly being invented. Try to make up your own!
Learn to use sign language numbers 1-20 in British Sign Language. This video has a good speed for following along.
Fly Tying Intermediate Lesson 2. This lesson shows what you need and how to make your own fishing flies. In this fly tying tutorial Dave Cammiss demonstrates a 'Booby'. This fly is most often used in the British Isles and is also known as Plastazote Pills.
Take one vintage, British made, 20 year old stock mardave meteor car and stick a 11.1v Li-Po battery up it's jacksey! It almost doubled it's speed and didn't seem to melt anything (although I didn't play with it for long, so if you want to try it yourself use extream caution)!
This is a piano rendition of "Gold" by British superstar band Spandau Ballet. "Gold" was a huge hit in the 80`s. Dino 5254 presents a piano solo in this video which visually shows us the melody and chords on the keyboard. Instead of the pulsating electric guitars, drums, vocals and keyboard in the original number, this particular cover version is a slow one with pauses and gentle lapses that go from one section of the melody to the next. Even the jungle drum beat section of the original pop s...
The British Bartender shows you how to make a great Margarita. To make a great Margarita, follow these steps: Add the following ingredients to a cocktail shaker: 1 1/2 ounces of good tequila 1/4 ounce of Cointreau or Triple Sec. 3/4 ounce lime juice. Rim the glass in some salt by moistening the rim with a lemon or lime wedge, and then roll the glass in it. Only rim half the glass in case the person you will be giving it to doesn't like salt. Add ice to the shaker and shake well. Add ice to th...
British record producer David Spoon explains how he uses the computer program Propellerhead Reason 4 to create rhythm and bass tracks in his home music studio. He explains that by just messing around with the controls within the program, you can create a lot of interesting sounds and effects. Sometimes the best sounds are discovered by accident. He uses Filter 2 to create interesting effects that he describes as "acid-y" or "nasty", having to do with the resonance of the bass sound. He also a...
The Type G plug is the standard plug in the United Kingdom, usually 230V and 50Hz, and is referred to as the BS1363 (British Standards 1363). It's most commonly referred to as the "13-amp plug" because it has a 13-amp fuse inside. The wires consist of a hot (or live) wire, neutral wire, and an earth (or ground) wire.
Chef Keith Floyd is in Northumberland to learn how to cook a traditional pheasant honey and cream dish. Contains images of food preparation that some viewers may find disturbing. Great recipe idea from BBC cookery show 'Floyd on Britain & Ireland'.
Chef Ainsley Harriott cooks a delicious dish of tandoori tikka prawns. Easy to follow step by step meal idea from BBC cookery show Ainsley's Gourmet Express.
You might not believe it, with our experience of the great British weather, but more people die of skin cancer in the UK than in Australia. In this exclusive guide, Dr Jessen stresses the importance of being familiar with our skin and any moles we might have, and provides simple and effective ways to check ourselves. He also advises on the safest way to enjoy the sun and dispels some myths along the way. You can’t catch the sun on a cloudy day? Think again. Watch this video tutorial and learn...
You are never too old to meet a mate! Never! In this video, learn some great tips on how to socialize your life to meet men when over 60.
Feeling lost inside a library? The Dewey Decimal System is a logical and popular book classification system for libraries and schools helping you to easily locate any book or periodical you need. Fool these steps to better understand the Dewey Decimal System.
When used together with the "sit!" command, "stay!" can form the foundation for more complex tricks.
