The 'How to Cook' Blog

Are you an avid gardener at home growing veggies, herbs or fruit and berries? Well, whether you are an green-thumbed expert or a blue-thumbed beginner, Scotts Miracle Gro is going one step further than providing you with a great product that grows your plants strong & healthy. They have started a ScottsMiracle-Gro Almanac YouTube channel, where they have their employees and growing experts drawing on their inner Quentin Tarantino and  [ Read More ]

I had the pleasure of returning to Big Daddy’s Bourbon St. Bistro & Oyster Bar in Toronto with a few friends for a business meeting. One week prior, I had learned about Big Daddy’s when I hosted an episode of Unigirl Canada’s Campus Cuisine Series with executive chef Lyndon O’Hearn. I must say the food is spectacular, and the ambiance is great. Now, I lived in Louisiana in university and  [ Read More ]

Rice is a staple food in much of the Eastern World, with the Western World shortly behind it. It’s difficult to find an American or Canadian table that doesn’t eat rice at least once per week, either as a side dish or as part of their main dish. Rice Recipes abound online, whether it’s Asian cuisines, Indian, Cajun or Creole, Italian, even Ukrainian. The world of rice is limitless as  [ Read More ]

Many recipes, especially Island or tropical recipes, and dessert recipes call for toasted coconut. You can’t buy toasted coconut…it’s something you must do at home, but it is a very simple process that only takes a few minutes, with quick & easy clean-up. Toasting your coconut really enhances the flavors and gives the coconut some lovely crunchy texture when you eat it. It’s well worth the small effort to make  [ Read More ]

It’s summertime! Instead of making banana bread with your extra ripe bananas, make something else that can be served cool and that amplifies summer flavors… Why not make Banana Rum Pudding with Toasted Coconut and feel like you’re on an island? That’s what I did tonight, and you’ll be so glad you did, if you go ahead and try this Pudding Recipe. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve With: Homemade Whipped Cream,  [ Read More ]

Whether it’s a hot summer or in the dead of winter, we all crave that BBQ flavor of the grill. Sometimes, burgers are all you need to fill that void. It’s fun to play around with burger flavors, and what is more “summertime” than the southwest flavors of the USA? Play around with different crumbs to change flavor and add small ingredients to create the flavors you desire. Check out  [ Read More ]

Kimberly Edwards of Cooking with Kimberly is not only a web chef, but an International Model, if you didn’t know. As founder of Kapow Models & Talent Agency, she also works in conjunction with UniGirl Canada. Kimberly attended Texas A&M University, McNeese State University in Louisiana & the University of Northern Iowa. As a UniGirl host, Kimberly filmed an episode for UniGirl’s Campus Cuisine Series at Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon  [ Read More ]