How Do They Do That???

How do you get a one armed man out of a tree?  Wave at him.  - George Carlin

A lot of recipes will give instructions that may not be self explanatory, or you can see point A and point B, but are not clear on how to get from A to B.  For example, "roll the dough into a 15x12 rectangle," sounds straightforward but rolling a ball of dough into a rectangle can be frustrating if you don't know how to do it.

Dough Ball Into a Rectangle