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How to Store Leftover Tomato Paste
Sep23

How to Store Leftover Tomato Paste

Don’t you just love how Tomato Paste comes in those small cans? I do because that flavor is so concentrated, I can’t possibly use a whole tin unless I’m roasting bones for beef stock, or in a chili. So, then what do you do with the remaining tomato paste left in the can? Don’t throw it out and just waste it! However, you can’t just leave it in the aluminum can because that’s not very good for you...

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Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper + Video
Apr15

Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper + Video

Craving pasta? Try my Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper! Follow step-by-step & cook your way to a delicious dinner for the family, with leftovers to spare. This pasta dish is filled with tasty ingredients like chorizo, mushrooms & green peppers, and with an easy tomato sauce that brings it all together, you’ll be the hero in the kitchen tonight. Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo &...

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Vegan Tiger Nut & Pumpkin Gnocchi + Tomato & Zucchini Pasta Sauce + Video
Dec11

Vegan Tiger Nut & Pumpkin Gnocchi + Tomato & Zucchini Pasta Sauce + Video

Vegan Tiger Nut & Pumpkin Gnocchi + Tomato & Zucchini Pasta Sauce: Type: Pasta Recipe Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Yield: about 50 gnocchi + sauce The ingredients & instructions are listed below the video for measurements & directions. Please enjoy this webisode of Cooking with Kimberly: Gnocchi Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups roasted pumpkin flesh or pumpkin puree 1 cup tiger nuts flour + additional flour...

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How to Cook Rice with Bacon, Tomato & Sweet Potato
Jan28

How to Cook Rice with Bacon, Tomato & Sweet Potato

Mission: Dinner Solution: Rice with Bacon, Tomato & Sweet Potato Tonight, I was ingredientally challenged in my kitchen, as it’s right before I go grocery shopping… I had bacon, one sweet potato, one tomato and some rice. I couldn’t remember a particular time I had combined these ingredients before, especially to create a main dish for dinner. Well, I just rolled with it, and this is what I came up with…A...

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How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks with Tomato Curry and Rice
Nov24

How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks with Tomato Curry and Rice

Tonight, I decided to just wing it in the kitchen for dinner, and also even thought I would allow you to be privy to my thought process when I cook a dinner at home. Let me set the Scene:  I had no idea what I was going to cook. I needed dinner ready, like “Now”.  All I knew is that I was going to make chicken drumsticks because that’s the first thing to decide…what meat to use. The chicken drumsticks were the...

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How to Bake Pastel de Tres Leches: Three Milk Cake

My good friend, Melania McCarley, from Dallas, Texas has made us this delicious treat a few times when we’ve visited her home. She is Costa Rican and creates really tantalizing tidbits like chimichurri, also known as pico de gallo (be sure to click that link for her original recipe). However, she really outdoes herself when it comes to dessert. Melania gave me her recipe for Tres Leches, but I couldn’t find where I put it...

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How to Cook Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo + Video
Feb22

How to Cook Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo + Video

Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo is definitely a food-of-love worth the time & effort it takes to create! This unique combination of flavors out of the deep south will tantalize your taste buds & warm your heart. Cook up this stew for New Year’s, Mardi Gras, or anytime you need a fix that reminds you of the taste of Southern hospitality, the moss dancing in the breeze on giant magnolia trees, and that bayou sound....

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How to Cook Beef Stock + Video
Mar24

How to Cook Beef Stock + Video

Beef Stock is the building block of amazing soups, stews & sauces, as well as other dishes that require a bit more flavor. Making your own beef stock is easy to do, but takes some time. You’ll start off with roasting your beef bones, which is the most important part of the recipe to develop deep flavors of deliciousness. Use this stock to make a large pot of soup, or save for later in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days, or...

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How to Cook French Onion Soup in Stoneware Ramekins from Scratch + Video
Sep05

How to Cook French Onion Soup in Stoneware Ramekins from Scratch + Video

Cooler weather is approaching & I’m breaking out all of my Fall recipes… …Soups, stews, casseroles cooking in the oven, baking things, and using different methods to cook than in other seasons. Long simmering, flavorful stocks & broths adorn our taste buds, and we crave it as soon as football season hits, don’t we? Well, here in North America, we do… Root vegetables like sweet potato, parsnip,...

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Organic, Nutritious & Delicious: Organix Foods for Children
Jul24

Organic, Nutritious & Delicious: Organix Foods for Children

If you’re a parent, we know that you want to feed your children nutritious foods…Foods that are as pure as possible. Organic is what you’re looking for, but most importantly, it has to taste good. They won’t eat it, if it doesn’t taste good, will they? In fact, it can be tough getting young children from toddler age to eat. They can be picky, they can be fussy, and they can be downright cantankerous about...

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How to Cook Mennonite Style Borscht
Jan18

How to Cook Mennonite Style Borscht

Learning how to cook Mennonite Style Borscht is something we don’t take lightly in our family. We make this cabbage soup often, especially in the colder months of the year. One side of my family has Mennonite roots. We are German, but hailing from Russia, on my mother’s side. My other side is Ukrainian and they are well known for eating borscht too! “I love Borscht! I’m giving you our secret family recipe...

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How to Cook Kenney’s Melt-In-Your-Mouth Meatloaf

This is my husband’s Southern Meatloaf recipe that barely lasts for leftovers…So, we try to make as much as we can handle…LOL…Meatloaf sandwiches are one of my favorite things for a leftover meal! Yum! ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type: Main Serve With: My Kickin’ Sweet Southern Cornbread and Collard Greens Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: ~ 30 min Yield: 5 servings, plus leftovers for the next day! *** Ingredients:...

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How to Cook My Grandmother’s Favorite Southwest Chili

This was my grandmother’s favorite chili, and every time she decided she wanted to make it, she would call me in Texas and ask me my recipe. After too many ingredients, she would just laugh and make me promise I’d make it for her the next time I would see her! Actually, I could have called it Mom’s Favorite, My Niece’s Favorite, My Husband’s Favorite…LOL…Delicious! ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type:...

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