How to Cook Fiddlehead Ferns
For a very short time, late in the Spring, you may be able to find fiddlehead ferns at your grocer or in your favorite produce market. They are basically an edible fern sprout that is coiled and hasn’t actually opened up into a leaf yet. Fiddleheads look like a coiled snail, almost, and taste like a cross between spinach and asparagus, to me anyway. They are widely popular and used in Eastern Canada. Fiddleheads are a known...
How to Cook Grilled Cheese Chicken & Tomato Sandwiches
Well, I just got in from a hot, summer workout and I’m hungry! Not only am I going to tear up some of that Homemade Lemonade I showed you how to make earlier, but I’m going to make some Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Chicken & Tomato. This will provide me with more “substance” after my workout, as well as more protein in the chicken. Making grilled cheese sandwiches are mostly all the same in technique, but...
How to Make Homemade Lemonade + Video
It’s the beginning of summer here in Canada, and I’m getting requests for cool, refreshing recipes people can make easily at home. What’s more refreshing than ice, cold lemonade from scratch? Not much! So, here’s a super-easy recipe that will take you about 5 minutes to make you look like a Champion in your Kitchen! Type: Beverage Recipe Prep Time: 5 mins Yield: 1 gallon * The ingredients & instructions are...
How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Darjeeling Tea
Darjeeling Tea is my absolute favorite type of tea. This tea hails from the area of West Bengal, India. This is not a native plant to India, and was first cultivated using Chinese tea plant seeds. It is often considered to be a black tea, as it looks like a black tea when it’s brewed, but it is technically more of an Oolong tea since it doesn’t have complete oxidation as a black tea would. Now, it does have caffeine (who...
How to Cook Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon
Spice up your plate tonight with Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon! Tonight, I’m cooking salmon, but I wanted to pan sauté it with a bit of a new flare. Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon: I saw wasabi peas in my pantry and decided to grind them or pulverize them in the food processor to use as the “dredging flour” to kick it up a hundred notches! One of my favorite combinations is when I have salmon sushi with...
How to Make Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Today, I made Peanut Butter Banana Muffins, and decided to accompany them with some amazing Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting on half of them. This is not super sweet either, so it’s edible for even those people who don’t enjoy really sweet treats. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve With: on brownies, cupcakes or muffin Prep Time: 5 mins Yield: enough for 2 dozen muffins Ingredients: 4 oz cream cheese – softened 1/4 cup...
How to Bake Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
Ahhh…the dilemma of over-ripe bananas… Well, it doesn’t have to be a dilemma…just bake something amazing or make a smoothie! Today, I’m showing you a recipe from scratch for Peanut Butter Banana Muffins that you’ll be so excited not only to make, but to devour. These are really tasty tidbits, and I made the small sized muffins today for a change. They are adorable and delicious too. Plus, they...
Finding Quality Nuts and Info on Nut Storage
Even if you’re not a full-fledged vegan or vegetarian, you may still be a serious nut lover… …And Rightly So! People are “nuts” about nuts! If it’s been a struggle to find good quality nuts at your grocer or in your area, you can always check online at places like nutsite.com for a wide variety of good quality, fresh nuts and seeds. There are often times I will buy nuts in bulk. However, sometimes...
How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Oolong Tea
Oolong tea is one of my favorite teas to brew… …Why? Because it has a really cool flavor, it helps you lose weight, is a de-stressor, encourages healthy bones & teeth, and gives you energy! Most of the Oolongs I have had the opportunity to try in Canada have a flavor profile similar to that of buttered popcorn to me. However, the exact same tea is lemony to my mother. In essence, they actually range in flavors from...
A Cooking with Kimberly Mother’s Day
Yesterday was Mother’s Day, as all of you probably know. Of course, we cooked! That’s a given…But what did we eat yesterday? Well, whatever mom wanted, of course! My mother, Ingrid Turner of IngridTurnerToday.com, requested a roasted chicken, so what I did was surprised her with something I haven’t made in a while, my Slow Roasted Chicken with the Best Skin Ever! Check out How to Achieve the Same Deliciousness...
How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Rooibos Tea
When you’re looking for a non-caffeinated alternative to black tea, Rooibos is the way to go. Rooibos is actually a black tea from South Africa that is naturally non-caffeinated, and it has less tannins in it than black tea does, so it doesn’t stain your teeth in the same way black teas do. Rooibos literally translated means “red bush” and it’s a plant that is broom-like, and in the legume family, believe...
How to Brew the Perfect Cup of White Tea
This morning, I was ready to start my day and kick it off with yet another cup of amazing tea! Today, I want to share with you How to Brew a Perfect Cup of White Tea, and you will find an instructional video below. White tea comes from the same plant as black or green tea, Camellia sinensis, but it is harvested differently. White tea comes from both the leaves and the buds of the plant, and its namesake comes from the fine, silvery...
Cooking with Kimberly Update – May 11, 2012
Sometimes life just gets hectic… …That’s certainly the case with my life. I just wanted to drop you guys a quick video to let you know what’s been going on the past few days, and why you hadn’t seen a new episode of the Cooking with Kimberly Show. Every now and again, even a web chef needs a day off, and that’s just what this web chef did…I took a day off. Then, today, I have a photo shoot...
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