Asian Pacific Cuisine at it’s Best: In Person
October 28, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Thai Seafood Curry
If you want the best food, you’ve got to go to the source!
Travel to that locale, take in the scenery and enjoy the unbelievably delicious food.
You want Asian Cuisine? Go there, experience the showmanship of well-trained chefs that take their cuisine so seriously, it’s their way of life.
Asian food, especially around the Asian Pacific, is full of interesting flavors with high impact taste, as well as delicately seasoned food that looks like a work of art on your plate – Not to mention being really fresh and extremely healthy for you.
It’s all about the experience…What better way to partake in this culture than to be right in the middle of it?
If you’re looking for an exotic place to go to take part in cuisines that are so special you’ll never forget it for the rest of your life, check out travel discount out there.
In fact, there is the Accor Hotels 3-Day Super Sale Asia Pacific going on right now with hotel rooms as low as $30 USD. Seriously! They’ve got 1 million hotel rooms at amazing rates across Asia Pacific.
With airfares at an all-time low, you are able to find bargains galore and create your very own exotic vacation…Perfect for foodies all over the world!
Countries Accor is including in their sale are: Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, India, Bali, Korea, China, Japan, HK, and Taiwan.
Get in on this 3-Day Super Sale quickly! It only runs from October 27-29, 2009!
Take it from me – I’ve lived in Australia; been to Singapore…What unbelievable food! I still want to make it out to Thailand, Indonesia, New Zealand, Fiji, India and Bali!
The hotels in this Super Sale include: Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, Ibis, All Seasons, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6 brands.
I’m psyched – someone’s going to get a phenomenal deal and I’m so jealous they’re going to get really authentic Asian cuisine!
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Eat Deliciously,
Kimberly Edwards 
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Take the Guesswork out of Asian Cuisine
October 21, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
I love Asian food and I even love cooking Asian food at home.
The problem, for most people, however, is that Asian food often requires a lot of ingredients that are otherwise not used in other cuisines. These ingredients can get expensive because Asian flavors are very complex and you only use a little bit of many seasonings, which may also go bad before you could use the entire bottle or package.
Also, if you don’t know what you’re looking for or have someone helping you who is Asian, it’s very difficult to figure out what the ingredients are because authentic Asian ingredients are written in an Asian language too.
Then, preparation of this type of food to make it authentic, requires cooking tools you may not have or may find too bulky to keep in your kitchen…
…But now, Sun-Bird takes the confusion, guesswork and difficulty out of preparing great Asian meals at home with their special Asian seasonings.
Sun-Bird Asian Seasonings
Whether you want to make a fabulous Kung Pao Chicken, magnificent Mongolian Beef or a General Tsao chicken worthy of a 5-star review, Sun-Bird makes it easy to create a sauce with their special seasoning packets from home.
So, if you love Asian food and want to make these tasty masterpieces at home, now you can without having to pay a lot of money for ingredients and special kitchen tools. Now, save yourself time, money and effort with Sun-Bird Asian seasoning products.
If your heart’s set on stir fry, egg drop soup, honey sesame chicken, pad thai, thai curry or chow mein, Sun-Bird’s got you covered.
Oh yes…I can’t forget: Sun-Bird is giving away 15 Blu-RayTM Disc players and entry forms can be found at your local grocery store, where Sun-Bird seasonings products are sold. This contest runs through October 31, 2009.
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Don’t Rinse Your Pasta: How to Cook Pasta
August 21, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
When you’re cooking pasta, don’t rinse it afterward when you drain the water off.
Why?
If you do, you rinse of the starch that will hold your sauce on the noodle.
Plus, you’ll cool down the pasta to a much lower temperature, even if you rinse it in warm water.
So, just drain your pasta in a colander or strainer, pour it back into your pan or pot and drizzle olive oil or melt some butter into it until you finish adding your sauce.
Try out my: Low Fat Rigatoni Primavera Recipe with Read more
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Spice Up Your Meals with a Splash!
June 12, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
…A Splash of Rice Vinegar that is!
“Vinegar?”, you may ask…Yes!!!
Try splashing it on freshly cut ripe tomatoes or cucumbers, green salads, hot salads, roasted potatoes, white rice, grilled or broiled seafood, or pasta dishes.
How about adding it to bean salads, coleslaw or to create a unique and zippy sauce?
Why not marinate beef, pork, chicken or seafood with rice vinegar?
Especially if you’re making any type of Asian dish or just looking for a new “je ne sais quoi”, rice vinegar or seasoned rice vinegar will do the trick.
What’s cool, though, about Nakano seasoned rice vinegars, is you’re not limited to Asian food, as they have different flavors that will accomodate anyone’s palate: Original Seasoned, Roasted Garlic, Basil & Oregano, Red Pepper, Balsamic Blend, and Italian Herb.
You can use them in place of balsamic, wine, cider or malt vinegars to give a subtle, but distinctive flavor to your “regular” dishes.
One of my favorite ways to use vinegar, besides mixed with olive oil for salad dressing or bread dipping sauce, is for a “buerre blanc” sauce on pasta or seafood.
Basically, it’s vinegar, butter, sugar, shallots and pepper. Serve over linguine topped with seafood like shrimp, lump crab meat or lobster! Yum!
For more Splash Tips and free recipes, be sure to check out Mizkan.com and their Nakano rice vinegars.
Nakano vinegars are all natural, fat free, low calorie and gluten free – they’re a great alternative for serious flavor in place of butter, sour cream or fatty, high calorie salad dressings full of preservatives.
I love being able to use the same “basic” ingredient, like vinegar, but using so many different variations to keep your taste buds guessing! Fantastic – so, try it for yourself.
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Eat Deliciously,
Kimberly Edwards
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Itt’s Thai – A Restaurant Review from St. Catharines, Ontario
March 24, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
That’s not a typo…LOL
There is a restaurant in St. Catharines, Ontario called “Itt’s Thai“!
My mother and sister wanted Thai, but didn’t feel like driving from the Pen Center (a mall in St. Kitt’s) over to Spicy Thai and heard there was one over on Hartzel Rd.
They told me it was super clean and very nice inside. The waiter was helpful and friendly too.
Most importantly, the TASTE!
They brought me food home, as they thought I’d be hungry. They ordered Coconut Chicken Soup – similar to my recipe for it posted a few days ago – and it was phenomenal. A little spicier than what you’d get at Spicy Thai, and I like it spicy! LOL…The flavor was fabulous!
The red shrimp curry was really tasty and served with steamed rice. Now, I think I’m just partial to Spicy Thai’s variety, but this was very, very good! I’ve never met a curry I didn’t like!
Their Pad Thai was probably Read more
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Brown Rice with Crimini Mushrooms
I love brown rice and the fact that it’s healthy for us, but it can be bland if you don’t know how to ‘doctor’ it up! So, I love to add interesting and flavorful ingredients to kick up the flavor! This is a great recipe!
* Tip: To make this a complete meal in itself, add either tofu or some fabulous cooked beans to make it a complete protein!!! Awesome!
~ Kimberly Edwards
Type: Side Dish
Serve With: Coconut Garlic Clementine Tilapia
Prep Time: 5 min
Cook Time: ~ 30 min in a rice cooker
Yield: 4 1/2 cups
Nutrition Facts:
* Tip: To make this a complete meal in itself, add either tofu or some fabulous cooked beans to make it a complete protein!
Ingredients: Read more
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How to Cook Beans in Your Rice Cooker
March 2, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Do you have a Rice Cooker?
They’re wonderful for cooking rice, aren’t they? …But is that all?
NO WAY! I like to cook lentils and small beans in the rice cooker as well as barley too.
Just make sure what you want to cook is of similar size to rice.
Find out how on my video:
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A Taste of Thai: Doctored-Up Kimberly Style
February 27, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
You know those days where you’re just so rushed, you’re hungry and have to eat, but need to put minimal effort into it?
I know I’m not an advocate of packaged food, but there are days where that may be the only option for you to cook something and actually eat in the midst of busy craziness!
When I utilized packaged food, it is a rare occasion where I won’t “doctor it up” Kimberly style - I learned this from my mother! Check it out here:
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How to Use a Bamboo Steamer
January 10, 2009 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
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 Read more
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Kimberly’s Masala Chai Tea from Scratch
April 20, 2008 by Kimberly · 9 Comments
I love Chai Tea and have recently gotten bored with the Starbucks blend, and no other Chai tea from the store in bags or loose-leaf has really excited me…So, I have finally tweaked my ideas until I found what it is that I like…Here it is…
~ Kimberly Edwards
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Type: Beverage
Serve With: Peace N’ Quiet
Prep Time: 4 min
Cook Time: ~ 18 min
Yield: 2 cups (because you’ll either want to enjoy it with someone else, or have 2 for yourself…LOL)
Ingredients:
Instructions: Read more
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