Video: How To Make Sushi Rolls

    Making your own sushi at home can be fun and cheaper than going to a Japanese sushi bar.
You'll need to buy sushi rice which is a small grain rice that is sticky when cooked. Other ingredients needed are dried nori sheets and seasoned rice vinegar. You can find these in the Asian Foods section of a large supermarket chain or in Chinatown. Pick up an inexpensive sushi mat too.
Fillings can be endless!

Video courtesy of AllRecipes.com

Video: How To Carve A Turkey

Video: How To Zest

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Remember to rinse and dry the fruit before zesting to remove wax, dirt, and/or pesticides.

Video: How To Mince Garlic

Here is a Video How To that shows different ways to mince garlic. Basic knife skills are a must for being in the kitchen as you can injure yourself severely if you don't know what you are doing.
Invest in a good, sharp, Chef's knife.

Video: How To Debone Chicken Thighs

There are many useful how to videos out there on the internet.
Here's one courtesy of allrecipes.com to learn how to cut up chicken legs and debone the thighs.

Video: How To Brown Ground Beef

There are quite a few people out there who don't know what it means to brown ground meats especially when you are making something like Hamburger Helper (what I first ate when I moved out of my parent's house and started living on my own) or making meat sauce for lasagna.

This technique can be used for any type of ground meat.

Video: How To Sauté

Here is a cooking technique that everyone should learn. When you sauté, you are constantly moving the food so that it "jumps" about in the pan. Here, it is demonstrated with potato but the technique goes for any vegetable or seafood that you do not want browning or color.

Video courtesy of VideoJug

Video: How To Baton and Julienne

This cutting technique comes in handy to make vegetable sticks for your crudite platter.

Videos courtesy of Howcast.

Cutting thinner than 1/4" (usually 1/8") is called Julienne. Many recipes call for this especially stir-fries. The vegetables will cook faster.

Video: How To Chop An Onion

A person who doesn't have proper knife skills and doesn't know how to prep vegetables for cooking will most likely be turned off by the whole idea and decide to order out instead.

Here's a video courtesy of Good Housekeeping on chopping an onion, one of the most basic and most used skill in cooking. Learn how to chop and cut and you can save money eating in instead of ordering out.

Video: How To Chop Garlic

I've seen bottles of chopped garlic sold in supermarkets that cost much more than a sleeve of garlic that usually runs for around $1 USD. Garlic from these jars has lost most of it's flavor as they are usually packed in water or oil. Don't be lazy and scared to chop your own garlic.

Here's a video to learn how to chop your own garlic and save money.

Video: How To Cut Up A Whole Chicken

Cutting up a whole chicken by yourself is not as difficult as it might seem. It's much cheaper to buy a whole chicken and cut it up into pieces yourself. Here is an instructional video courtesy of Gourmet Magazine.

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