Martha Stewart Cooking Lessons on Video

Martha's Favorite Family Dinners — Martha offers answers to the most pressing question: What's for dinner? You'll learn practical solutions for getting delicious and nutritious meals on the table, every night. Whether your family is in the mood for fish, chicken, pasta, beef or even vegetarian, you'll find something for everyone. Dinner time is family time and everyone in your family will love these delicious recipes. Run Time: 180 minutes.

Chicken: Crusty Mustard Chicken, Chicken Marsala, Roast Chicken, Lemon Chicken Cutlets, Chicken and Dumplings, Chicken Chili.

Meat: Meatloaf 101, Crock Pot Pot Roast, Lamb Chops, Roast Pork, Seared Beef with Oranges and Arugula, Spicy Flank Steak.

Pasta: Midnight Pastas, Spicy Squash Pasta, Macaroni Pie, Tagliatelle with Bolognese Ragout, Spaghetti with Brooklyn Clam Sauce, Papparfelle with Mushrooms and Brussels Sprouts.

Fish: Grilled Tuna Steaks Fish Nuggets with Tartar Sauce, Pan-Sautéed Trout, Salt-Baked Red Snapper, Herbed Steamed Halibut, Hot Smoked Salmon.

Vegetarian: Stuffed Peppers, Back Bean Burger, Squash Casserole, Wilted Escarole and Garlic-Fried Garbanzo Beans, Rice and Beans, Roasted Poblano Gazpacho.

Special Features: Martha's Bloopers, Eight Helpful How-To Demonstrations, Printable Recipes and Instructions, Pantry Basics Checklist, 12 Cupcake-of-the-Month Recipes and Decorating Tips.

Martha's Guests — Master Chefs — Fifteen master chefs from New York and around the United States share their culinary expertise and recipes from around the world with Martha Stewart and her viewers in this Martha Stewart Living Television compilation. Three recipes are featured in each of American, Italian, French, Mexican, and Asian cuisines. Run Time: 130 minutes.

Hearty American Entrees: Oven-Roasted Ribs with Bobby Flay, Olive-Stuffed Flank Steak with Tom Douglas, New England Clam Chowder with Jasper White

Tempting Italian Favorites: Spaghetti alla Carbonara with Mario Batali, Spiendini alla Romano with Lidia Bastianich, Lemon Chicken with Frank Pelllegrino

Classic French Fare: Cote de Boeuf with Daniel Boulud, Shrimp with Orange Dust with Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Coq au Vin with Riad Nasr

Savory Mexican Dishes: Tamales with Diana Kennedy, Chiles Anchos Rellenos with Roberto, Calamari with Jose Hurtado

Tasty Asian Essentials: Pad Thai with Su-Mei Yu, Pork Buns with Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, Hand Rolls with Nobu Matsushita.

Martha's Baking Favorites — Martha makes everything special, and baking is no exception. Martha's Baking Favorites features Martha Stewart's best recipes — from cakes and pies to cookies and so much more. Consumers will learn the best techniques and tips for creating delicious treats. Run Time: 204 minutes.

Techniques: Baking Pans 101, Basic Pie Crust: Pate Brisee, Standard Tart Dough: Pate Sucree, Crust Decorating Techniques, Freezing Pie Dough Tip, Blind Baking Techniques, Cake Stenciling.

Cakes: Ultimate Chocolate Layer Cake, Lemon Meringue Cake, Coffee Crunch Cake, Chocolate Angel Food Cake, Red Velvet Cake, Boston Cream Pie, Hummingbird Cake

Pies, Tarts and Cobblers: Blueberry Crumble Pie, Black Bottom Pie, Peach Cobbler, Square Pear Peg Tart, Plum Puff Pastry Tart, Mini Apple Tarte Tatin, Banana Cream Pie.

Cookies: Kitchen Sink Cookie, Rhubard Shortbread, Lime Meltaway, Chocolate-filled Lace Cookies, Lemon Sandwich, Pecan Squares, Chocolate Chip Meringues.

Special Features: Classic Pie Gift, Bloopers, Printable Recipes and Instructions, Baking Pantry 101, Pastry Tip Glossary, Cake Decorating Tips and Techniques, Meringue and Whipped Cream, Leftover Dough Treats, A Crisper Crust and more.

Martha's Favorite Cookies — Martha's Favorite Cookies features 33 of Martha's best cookie recipes your whole family will enjoy. Run Time: 203 minutes.

Molded Cookies: Scottish Shortbread Three Ways, Molasses Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Fall Leaf Cookies

Sandwich Cookies: Pecan and Caramel Shortbread, Chocolate Malt Cookies, Chocolate Mint Wafers, Linzer Sandwiches, Carrot Cake Cookies

Drop Cookies: Dried Cherry Oatmeal Cookies, Lemon Drop Wafers, Chocolate Caramel Surprise, Lemon Cassis Bonbons, Paul Bunyan Cookies, Mudslides, Alexis' Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Crackles

Bar Cookies: Fig Bars, Rocky Ledge Bars, Congo Bars, Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

Refrigerator Cookies: Checkerboards, Fruit and Nut Cookies, French Butter Cookies

Rolled Cookies: Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies, Matcha Shortbread, Gingerbread People, Cocconut Pinwheels, Lime Sables

Piped Cookies: Langue de Chat, Meringue Daisies, Lemon Thyme Wafers.

Martha's Homemade Holidays is all about the art of making food and decorating for the Christmas or Hanukkah season. Woe be to anyone who views the four very diverse and remarkable Christmas dinner dishes here on an empty stomach: nothing will taste nearly as exciting. British chef Anne Willan drops by Stewart's kitchen to make a hearty, standing rib roast with accompanying Yorkshire pudding — foods she grew up eating in the farm country north of York. Chef Mario Batali, an expert on foods of Southern Italy, does two segments, one resulting in a fantastic seafood salad (with lobster, calamari, mussels, peppers, and more) and the other an impossibly beautiful baccala ravioli, using fresh-made pasta pillows filled with a mix of baccala and riced potatoes, tossed in Batali's red sauce with a hint of mint. Finally, chef Dan Silverman demonstrates how to remove pomegranate seeds from the fruit without too much hassle, and then add those seeds to an astonishing duck dish.

Playful and dazzling desserts include meringue mushrooms, which look just like the real thing, and a Birch de Noel made of chocolate and cream, laid out like a Yuletide log. Household decorating hints are both clever and simple, including the strategic placing of colorful bowls of fruits and candies on shelves, and the embellishing of homemade wreaths with colorful balls (small, pink ones from Japan are oddly magical), candy, and popcorn. A section on Hanukkah gifts and foods includes a nice idea for filling embossed bags with candies, and a variation on traditional potato pancakes that includes adding strips of carrots and parsnips. Suggestions for making gifts and wrapping round out this very pleasant disc. Run Time: 180 minutes.

Martha's Classic Thanksgiving is a most pleasant and entertaining way to find inspiration for a Thanksgiving less ordinary. Taken from past episodes of Stewart's television programs, Classic Thanksgiving presents five ways to cook a turkey, beginning with "Turkey 101," in which Martha prepares a fairly traditional meal while revealing the story of her Thanksgiving from Hell. (Her soon-to-be-ex-husband set the oven on broil and inserted the soon-to-be-unrecognizable bird.) Other shows focus on a rotisserie-baked turkey, a deep-fried turkey (with Creole spices), a boned, broiled, and rolled turkey (very nifty), and most provocative of all, a "black-lacquered" turkey, in which one of Stewart's bankers — who knows exactly two dinner recipes and is so naive in the kitchen she calls a grater a "scraping thing" — demonstrates how a turkey browns beautifully beneath a paste of yummy ingredients that blacken in the heat.

Also on the disc are guides for making several fantastic stuffing dishes, the most dazzling of all a pumpkin challah bread stuffing and a fruit-and-nut stuffing recipe that begins with the soaking of apricots and prunes in bourbon — and just gets better from there. Side dishes include a mouth-watering garlic-horseradish mashed potato dish, and the fascinating "Native American Succotash," a brilliantly colored dish that requires little but veggies themselves. As for desserts: the rustic apple tarts are spectacular and look easy to make in Stewart's kitchen, but the cranberry-pistachio biscotti could be enough to make a grown man weep. There are sections, too, on settings and centerpieces (the gourd candle holders sound silly but look great) as well as kids' crafts. Fun to watch, learn from, or just dream by. Run Time: 210 minutes.

Martha Stewart Holiday Gift Set — includes Martha's Homemade Holidays and Martha's Classic Thanksgiving (described above), as well as Martha's New Year Celebration, which has loads of fun with appetizers, including a shrimp cocktail made simply and with good ingredients, and an antipasto platter that could feed a small army. The grilled curried shrimp looks irresistible, and there's a helpful chapter on bar snacks, including how to make fabulous-looking pretzel sticks with varied toppings. The "Party Drinks and Cocktails" section includes essential info on chilling champagne, but Martha also delights in concocting White Cosmopolitans (white cranberry juice and ice-cold vodka), Passion Fruit Champagne (pour the bubbly right over a spoonful of the fruit's pulp), and Snakebites (hard cider and ale). Lots of party fun for the whole family, including a confetti trick sure to delight, newspaper party hats, kids' bubble-jumping (a likely hit), and balloon decorating.

Martha's Halloween Ideas — October is Halloween and Martha Stewart shows you how to create ghoulishly fun treats for the whole family to enjoy. Martha provides step by step demonstrations on how to make glow stick spiders, white chocolate ghosts, pumpkin creatures and many other "bad things", as well as frightfully adorable costumes on this very special DVD! Run Time: 128 minutes.

Pumpkins: pumpkin carving 101, pumpkin creatures, pumpkin owls.

Costumes: supermarket costumes, fleece costumes, baby chicken, fish head costumes, pirate costume.

Decor: clothespin bats, spider cone lanterns, window silhouettes, glow stick spiders, specimen bottles, shrunken heads.

Treats: Halloween cupcakes, white chocolate ghosts, popcorn balls.

Trick or Treat: pillowcase treat bags, animal treat bags, reflective bags.

Makeup: frightfully scary makeup, bruises and scars, special effects makeup.

Martha's Summer Favorites — Martha's best ideas for summer fun and entertaining are brought together in this two-disc set. Viewers can follow along as Martha prepares some of her most delicious warm-weather dishes and refreshing drinks. There are great suggestions for the backyard barbecue and helpful tips for making picnics and trips to the beach easy and enjoyable, including projects and games especially for kids. Plus, Martha shows how to celebrate the summer holidays in true "Americana" style. Run Time: 244 minutes.

Disc One:

• Beach Projects: beach bags, sarong tie dye, flip flops, sand castle sculptures and tools kits, superhero cape towels
• Kids Projects: lemonade stand, toy sailboats and motor boats, bean bag toss, sponge ball, pitching tents, map and compass skills
• Picnic Projects: picnic flatware roll, striped picnic blanket, handkerchief pitcher cover
• Outdoor Decorating: oilcloth place mats, tablecloth weights, citronella candle, button napkins
• Celebrate Americana: fireworks apron, red, white, and blue garland, red, white, and blue tarts (which was quite good), patriotic votives

Disc Two:

• BBQ Favorites: ribs and sauces, chicken, ribs, and macaroni salad, leg of lamb and grilled veggies
• Grilling: asado sausages, grilling seafood, grilled fennel and onions, charcoal vs. gas grills, grill tools
• Side Dishes: corn-on-the-cob, pink gazpacho, potato salad, corn relish
• Refreshing Drinks: iced tea, iced coffee, papaya lime cooler, southern drinks
• Desserts: sand dollar cookies, summer berry cobbler, ice cream brownie bars, bananas foster.