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Pan Seared Bacon-Wrapped Boar Medallions + Black Oyster Mushroom & Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Sauce Video
Feb10
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Black Oyster Mushroom & Bordeaux Cherry Balsamic Sauce Video
Feb10
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How to Grow Gourmet Mushrooms at Home
Dec07

How to Grow Gourmet Mushrooms at Home

Did you know that? Yes, you can grow your very own gourmet mushrooms at home over and over again. Mushroom patches can be started by logs already prepared or with kits you purchase. I had compiled a list of products for my new friend, Lynn Ogryzlo – author of Niagara Cooks, and figured I’d share it with the rest of the world of food lovers out there that frequent my blog. I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love...

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How to Cook Kimberly’s Favorite Creamy Mushroom Soup + Video
Oct28

How to Cook Kimberly’s Favorite Creamy Mushroom Soup + Video

Kimberly’s Favorite Creamy Mushroom Soup is a dish perfected over the years, to get the best flavors! Looking for something that tastes super indulgent, but without all those extra calories and fat? This soup is perfect to impress your taste buds and your family! There never seems to be enough leftover because you’ll be left wanting more. This delicious and creamy soup has a splash of red wine and is so indulgent, it seems...

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How to Cook with Dried Mushrooms for Recipes
Oct27

How to Cook with Dried Mushrooms for Recipes

Many mushrooms come in dried forms, and some exotic mushrooms only come in dried forms in stores. Trumpet, lobster, maitake, morrels, chanterelles, porcini, oyster, miscellaneous “field” mushrooms, and truffles all come dried. When you see dried mushrooms in their packages, you might be thinking, “Hmmm…That sounds cool, but how can I use them?” First off, dried mushrooms are great additions to creamy...

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Mushroom Week on Cooking with Kimberly!

My favorite “vegetable” (well, it’s really a fungus, but whatever…LOL) is the mushroom! It was understood as I grew up that mushrooms were tasty, yes, but they didn’t have much nutritional benefits other than a bit of fiber and lots of water. Until last year, this is what I thought. However, mushrooms are chock full of all kinds of special nutrients, vitamins and minerals that can only be found in...

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Our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019
Apr08

Our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019

Spring has sprung & here are our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019! It’s warmer outside, gardeners are getting their seeds in, plants are starting to spring forth from the ground, and our tastes are beginning to shift out of winter mode. Spring showers bring May flowers, or in our case, brought the birth of our baby girl, so this season is ever-so-special. It’s a time of rebirth & refreshing! People are breaking...

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A Romantic Valentine’s Day Menu
Feb11

A Romantic Valentine’s Day Menu

When deciding on what to make for your romantic dinner for two, this Valentine’s Day Menu is a great place to start for ideas! Making this day special is something to look forward to for the both of you because this menu is going to be sooooo delicious… A Romantic Valentine’s Day Menu: Enjoy these tasty tidbits from appetizer through dessert. Mix & match these ideas with some of your favorites to come up with...

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How to Cook Open-Faced Steak Sandwiches
Dec24

How to Cook Open-Faced Steak Sandwiches

Open-Faced Steak Sandwiches are a really tasty & quick go-to meal. As much as we enjoy our turkey for Christmas dinner, leftovers the next day, hot turkey sandwiches with gravy the next day, and cold sandwiches or for a cold platter the next day… A change for something different is called for when it’s leftover week! A welcome change at our house is open-faced steak sandwiches with a beautiful array of luscious...

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Happy New Year 2009!

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 made our feast as we felt like eating more. We had smoked oysters...

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Web Chef Review: Central Market – Dallas Preston Royal
Oct05

Web Chef Review: Central Market – Dallas Preston Royal

While visiting Dallas this time, I finally got the privilege to visit Central Market at Preston & Royal. Central Market is a whole-foods, organic-type grocery store/market. That’s a mouthful, right? Well, it is. Not only does it have the prettiest, cleanest, freshest & healthiest-looking produce I’ve seen in quite some time, it is sooo much more. The store is filled with fantastic & “obscure”, mom...

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