The 'How to Cook' Blog

This basic recipe can be used for beef burgers or even chicken burgers! Tasty, simple, easy and enhances the flavor of the meat! Delicious!!! ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Main Dish Serve With: A fresh, crisp side salad Prep Time: 7 min Cook Time: 14 min Yield: 4 burgers Ingredients: If you would like to buy me some new and unique ingredients, or just help me supply my pantry so that  [ Read More ]

When I was in Dallas in December last year, we often have a man that comes around with his wife’s amazing Mexican dishes to sell for breakfast or lunch. Usually, he has 3 different kinds of homemade gorditas for us, but… …This particular time, we got 1 dozen homemade tamales, which were the best I have ever eaten in my life by the way, and he always has really interesting  [ Read More ]

I happened to notice an establishment on Lundy’s Lane today in Niagara Falls, Ontario that I hadn’t seen before. I usually go to Teaopia at the Pen Centre in St. Catharines, as many of you know from previous posts, but I’m so happy to find this place! LM Teas was formerly known as Lodi Market. I am a serious darjeeling tea freak, so I needed to get some and noticed  [ Read More ]

If you haven’t heard about this 12 year old boy, Bilaal Rajan, from Oakville, Ontario (near where I live), listen up… National Volunteer Week is coming up April 19-25 and he is challenging you to go barefoot for 1 week. That’s right…It’s called the Barefoot Challenge! Why? …Because, as they say, “You never really know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes”… Many children around the world are  [ Read More ]

This is essential for healthy eating these days, and one of the tastiest ways to prepare chicken breast in a healthy way. Searing simply means pan frying to seal in the juices by quickly browning the meat. Flavorful, easy, quick and healthy! Perfect to build any meal upon – even different ethnic food…This is a basic recipe you’ll always need up your sleeve. ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Main Dish Serve  [ Read More ]

Question #1: Are there any differences between milk and half and half? There is a huge difference between milk and 1/2 and 1/2. The butterfat content in half & half is dramatically higher than that in milk. In half & half, it is 12.5%. In milk it is typically between 0-4% (0 being skim milk). This makes a huge difference to taste and texture. Half & half is much thicker  [ Read More ]

Today in Niagara Falls, Ontario, it’s 32 ºF and snowing. Now, I will BBQ in the snow sometimes, but I REALLY don’t prefer to… It’s simply too cold to babysit the food and enjoy a “cold one”…You really need a hot toddy or something to enjoy while you’re tending to the food. It’s just not as enjoyable as 80 ºF right now, like for the people who own homes in  [ Read More ]

Hi Everybody, As with most people…Yes, I am on Facebook! LOL I recently created the Cooking With Kimberly Page on Facebook and wanted to personally invite you to join in and become a fan on Facebook. What’s new with my FB Fan Page? Well, you will not only get great updates and extra tidbits I add about how to cook, recipes, health, nutrition, videos and great places to eat or  [ Read More ]

Today, I was online creating return address labels from VistaPrint.com… I love this place, it’s where I get all of our business cards from, so I thought I’d delve deeper and get some labels, as I’m in dire need of them…LOL I was playing around with what I wanted and of course, since I’m a hopeless foodie, my labels reflect that. I wanted to share the label I chose with  [ Read More ]