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Have you seen “blooming tea”? It’s usually a mixture of different tea leaves and flowers that are wrapped and packed up into a tight ball. When you put it in your clear tea pot and wait 10 minutes, they turn into a beautiful, plumped up flower! Literally, it looks like a pretty flower, often with different colors. There are endless flavors, including many with jasmine green tea, lily flower,

What is My Favorite Australian Fruit? The dark purple passion fruit! Before I lived in Australia, I had never seen the likes of a passion fruit, let alone tasted a freshly ripened one. Honest to Goodness…it’s the most delicious fruit I’ve ever eaten! Literally, we had so many of them, as there were passion fruit plants all around the backyard where I lived. I could just go outside and pick  [ Read More ]

What was my very favorite thing I ate when I was in Australia? If I was pinned down to have to answer this, I would say it was the calamari! I’d never had calamari any differently than the breaded and fried version, as you would get at Olive Garden here in America. They don’t make it like this in Aussieland, unless you go to a fish & chips shop…No, No,  [ Read More ]

We polished off a 50 gram bag of Black Currant tea from Teaopia this week! It’s really delicious! It has a base of hibiscus, apple pieces and rose-hip peels…Then, it has elderberries, black currant leaves and black currants, and vanilla. Now, I love black currant, any currant for that matter (we grow them in our garden)…Many people find them bitter or say they taste sort of like soap or perfume…LOL…  [ Read More ]

This is my husband’s Southern Meatloaf recipe that barely lasts for leftovers…So, we try to make as much as we can handle…LOL…Meatloaf sandwiches are one of my favorite things for a leftover meal! Yum! ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Main Serve With: My Kickin’ Sweet Southern Cornbread and Collard Greens Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: ~ 30 min Yield: 5 servings, plus leftovers for the next day! *** Ingredients:

Although we always have champagne for New Year’s, we always have a bottle of icewine too with dessert. In fact, we take every available opportunity to drink icewine, especially in the Niagara Region, that there is. My birthday is in July, and guess what my drink of choice is…Icewine! To tell you the truth, I have never met one that I didn’t love. What is Icewine? Icewine is when the  [ Read More ]

Didn’t your mama teach you it’s healthy to make friends. Well, go ahead and make a foodie friend in ted on twitter… He’s a pretty cool guy and CEO of IZEA.com. His last tweet was “

I know many of us bake with Manuka honey, which comes from bees that harvest their pollen from Manuka bushes in New Zealand. It has a richer, more floral and earthy aroma and flavor, which gives it a more specialized taste than “regular” honey you get in your grocery store, like Billy Bee brand, for instance. I use it in my tea, on toast with peanut butter! It’s great for  [ Read More ]

I know you’re thinking…”What? How in the world can cell phones help me cook?” Think Back: How many times have you or a member of the family “forgotten” something crucial to dinner or making lunches when they got home from the grocery store? How many times have you said…Uhhh, I forgot the flour, or the sugar, or the milk, or the dish detergent? I know I have, my hubby has,  [ Read More ]

How many times have you gone to the grocery store, came home and realized that you forgot the milk! I know this has happened to everyone in some way, shape or form with some ingredient or food stuff. NEVER again! Sign up for a free account with RememberTheMilk.com, and get a personalized tool for grocery lists and to-do lists alike! You can merge it with family members’ cell phones or  [ Read More ]

The final round of NFL Playoffs is today. There are 2 games – one at 3:00 pm EST, and one at 6:30 pm EST. Well, if you’re a football fan, I know you must LOVE tailgating too… Now, tailgating doesn’t just mean those of us out at the football stadium, camping out to enjoy amazing food… No, not at all… You’re a tailgater if you make special football appetizers and  [ Read More ]

What Does That Mean? Well, I can tell you my story… When I drink black tea, I almost always only drink PG Tips brand, care of my English nanny from when I was a baby. It’s the BEST black tea in existence to me and the people around me! I bring PG Tips tea bags with me when I travel, as you never can find them ANYWHERE!!! So, I buy  [ Read More ]

I have a funny story that just happened this past week. My mother made me some homemade chicken soup after I had surgery. I mentioned to her that I thought the rice she put in the soup was nice. She was absolutely certain that she had put barley in the soup, not rice. However, being the “foodie” that I am…LOL…, I knew it was rice by the taste and the  [ Read More ]

Steaming vegetables is probably the healthiest way to cook them, as they retain their vitamins and nutrients in them. When boiling vegetables, their “goods” leach out into the cooking water. What do you usually do with that water? Dump it down the drain, right? Start eating healthy now…Also, you may start to cook with more Asian inspiration! Now, this is what to do: 1. Place your If you would like  [ Read More ]

Today, I “stumbled” across this information that I was going to post on our BlogNButter.com/homeandgardening blog, but…then, IT HIT ME at how great this info could be to you, my beloved foodies! Check it out: Project Orange Thumb is a neighborhood beautification project where within the U.S. and Canada, 20 grants of $1,500 in Fiskars gardening tools and up to $800 in gardening-related materials (green goods). Plus, 4 grants will  [ Read More ]

If your household is like ours, we stocked  up on Egg Nog this year for Christmas. We still have a few cartons remaining that have an expiration date approaching this next week. What I like to do is to use it up to make French toast with. Yum! ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Breakfast Serve With: Canadian maple syrup and/or powdered sugar Prep Time: 3 min Cook Time: 5-7 Yield: ~  [ Read More ]

This dish includes traditionally German ingredients for a full meal in a baking dish. It’s lovely for a family dinner or for a smorgasbord buffet. ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Main Serve With: Nothing…It’s perfect all by itself! Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: 1 hr, 40 min Yield: 9 x 13′ casserole dish Ingredients: If you would like to buy me some new and unique ingredients, or just help me  [ Read More ]

Well, as many of you may have already noticed, CookingWithKimberly.com has a new look! It is more of a magazine theme, allowing you to more easily see many of the blog posts here on the site! You can quickly access the newest Featured post, Holiday & Event cooking, my newest Baking delight, Drink Recipes, Tips & Tricks, Side Dishes, etc. all at a glance! * Tip: Don’t forget…The categories are  [ Read More ]

I just wanted to wish each and every one of you a Happy and Blessed New Year! I also want to thank you all for such amazing encouragement, interaction and great friendships I have forged through this site! As I had mentioned a few blog posts back, we had some amazing seafood for dinner last night! As usual, our eyes were bigger than our tummies, but we were smart and  [ Read More ]