Tired of eggnog? Spice up your holiday season with delicious glögg! This Swedish cocktail recipe with vodka, red wine, raisins, and spices will be a huge hit at your next party - especially when it’s lit on fire! Henry Mayer shares his ingredient, cooking, and safety tips for making this tasty holiday beverage.
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Travel to Korea with the delicious Soju cocktail - a refreshing mixed drink with citrus flavorings. It’s perfect for your next dinner party! Soju is a traditional Korean distilled alcohol typically made from rice and barley. The mixers include grapefruit yogurt drink, citrus soda, and sliced lemon or lime.
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There’s nothing better than hot apple cider on a cold winter day. Learn how to brew delicious spiced cider with this easy and simple recipe. The ingredients include fresh pressed apple juice, an orange, cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Spice up your holiday season with this flavorful and warm drink - apples never tasted so good!
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Holy Guacamole! It’s time for a fiesta. Try this easy recipe for fresh and delicious guacamole that is sure to impress even your choosiest of friends. Learn how to prepare each ingredient (avocado, onion, garlic, tomato, lime, hot peppers and spices) so the flavors meld together in the final product. Join in on the fun and enjoy this delicious topping for chips, nachos, burritos, or hamburgers!
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Now that you know how to make fresh guacamole - try it out for yourself! Let us know how it goes by sharing a picture with the Curious community.
It's time to work some magic! Hone your sleight of hand and display your alleged psychic powers by mastering this wallet prediction card trick. In this lesson from TAGS Magic, Tom demonstrates and then reveals the secret behind this simple but impressive card trick, which requires very little practice. While the video may explain the mechanism, the showmanship is up to you...
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In our digital world, there’s nothing like getting a handwritten card in the mail—unless its getting a handwritten and hand painted card in the mail. In this lesson from Fabulously Artsy, learn how to create a stamped and painted card that looks like it came from an expensive boutique. You’ll need a piece of a cardstock, a stamp and stamp pad, a paintbrush, a bit of time, and a lot of creativity. When you are finished painting, add embellishments to create a truly special piece of stationery.
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It's summertime, and the living is easy... and the fruit is ripe! So why not add some fresh fruit and herbs to your mixed drinks? Joe, a Curious.com employee, teaches you the recipe for a basic (and adaptable- any juice will do) lemon and mint cocktail. This lesson includes instructions for creating homemade simple syrup, as well as a non-alcoholic alternative version of this delicious minty-fresh beverage. This drink is perfect for a hot day or a hot party.
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Face painting can add excitement and drama to any party or festival, for children and adults alike! If you are new to face painting though, you might be intimidated by the fact that the whole face becomes a blank canvas—so start with the basics, and learn how quickly and easily you can paint a butterfly! This lesson will teach you the basics of paint placement, how to use a rainbow cake for the bulk of the design, and finally how to embellish your design using simple lines, dots, and glitter.
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Tea sandwiches are the perfect dainty dish to serve at any tea party or special occasion. In this lesson, Honeysuckle Catering teaches you how to make (and elegantly serve) three different kinds of tea sandwiches: the cucumber watercress, cantaloupe prosciutto, and egg salad sandwiches. The only cooking you'll have to do is boiling some eggs, and tea party sandwiches can offer delicious treats for carnivores and vegetarians alike.
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Why bother with a palette when you can unleash your artistic creativity right onto someone else's face? In this lesson, Mandi Ilene demonstrates how to a make a beautiful red, white, and blue abstract facepaint pattern that is perfect for 4th of July festivities, royal jubilee parties, or just summertime fun! This lesson also offers general advice on applying paint to faces with sponge or brush for any design.
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You've bought a bouquet of flowers at the store, but how do you take that jumble of stems and turn them into a beautiful flower arrangement? In this lesson, uBloom teaches a very literal shortcut: cutting the stems short to fit in a low vase, bunching all the blooms together and inserting stems at angles to support one another. This technique makes it easy and fun to arrange flowers nicely, and the lesson includes tips on tools you'll need and how to prepare the the water and flower food.
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Show us a photo of your flower arrangement! Prefer not to purchase a fresh bouquet? Try faux-flowers or flowers plucked from your garden.
Make a sweet summer treat by covering cookies in a cream cheese frosting and adding fruits and berries! In this lesson, Simply Bakings teaches you a recipe that will allow you to unleash both your artistic skills and your tastebuds. Learn how to make the frosting that will let your fruit stick to your cookie-pizza, then get suggestions for the kind of refreshing fruits that make great toppings. This lesson includes a link for a recipe for sugar cookies that you can use as your pizza base.
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Make super easy and fresh homemade hummus in mere minutes. With a can of garbanzo beans, a short list of ingredients, and a quick whirl of your blender or food processor, you have a protein rich garbanzo bean dip that's great for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Best of all, when you make hummus at home, you can adjust the flavors just the way you like. Garnish and serve the Middle Eastern way -- it's an art!
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Learn to make easy homemade hummus and share a photo of your delicious final product!
Whether you are catering a swanky soiree or hosting your own celebration, learn how to create a festive blueberry dessert that looks much more difficult to make than it is! Your partygoers will be delighted with this chic Blueberry Dessert in a Martini Glass. In this lesson from The Aubergine Chef, you’ll learn how to make and combine the four components of this beautiful dessert recipe (cake, mousse, gelee, and Chantilly cream), and garnish each glass masterfully.
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Want to make a fun and colorful alcoholic drink? In this lesson, The Vegetarian Baker teaches you how to infuse Absolut Vodka with jelly beans, making the vodka colorful and sweet. Using mini vodka bottles and jelly beans, you can create a cheerful mini-fridge-sized drink with a kick. It's the perfect way to get a little of your inner child into your adult beverage!
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Want to bake a chocolate cake with the perfect moistness? Stay away from the store-bought mixes: this recipe by Renee GTV, when executed correctly, is guaranteed to give you that perfect moist and fluffy texture. Using several household ingredients—butter, sugar, eggs, cocoa powder, buttermilk, and a few others—you can make some truly decadent chocolate cake.
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