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How to Bake Sweet Jalapeno Mozzarella Cornbread Muffins
Nov28

How to Bake Sweet Jalapeno Mozzarella Cornbread Muffins

Today, I’m making a soon-to-be favourite in our household… Sweet Jalapeno Mozzarella Cornbread Muffins from scratch, and they are going to a fellow gymnastics coach of mine, Sarah Morin at Gymnastics Energy, for doing me a great favour. Thanks, Sarah! When I make cornbread, I like it sweet, so today, I’m using the basic recipe for my Kickin’ Sweet Southern Cornbread and kicking that up with some “jalapeno...

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How to Bake Chicken Quarters – Southwest Baked Chicken
Nov27

How to Bake Chicken Quarters – Southwest Baked Chicken

Baking chicken is simple and easy, and chicken quarters are relatively inexpensive. It allows you to throw your food into the oven, and gives you the ability to walk around and take care of other chores around the house while it bakes. You don’t have to babysit it! This is a Southwest Baked Chicken I’m showing you in the video below and providing the recipe for.  However, take this technique and run with it. The sky is the...

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How to Bake Sweet Cornbread Muffins from Scratch
Sep26

How to Bake Sweet Cornbread Muffins from Scratch

For some strange reason, I haven’t baked cornbread in quite some time. Not that I don’t love it, it’s amazing, especially when I bake sweet cornbread from scratch. However, tonight, I wanted that same comforting soul food recipe flavor, without the long 45 minute bake-time. So, to solve my problem, I decided to bake sweet cornbread muffins, as it cuts the bake time in half. Try these out. They are fantastically...

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How to Bake Easy Bread Rhubarb Apple Cobbler
Jul24

How to Bake Easy Bread Rhubarb Apple Cobbler

Who doesn’t like cobbler, right? The only thing I like better than cobbler is a cobbler that’s super easy, super quick to make! Well, here’s your prayers answered…This easy cobbler is made with bread. That’s right, bread. Check out how simple this recipe is to create, and how fast you can prepare it. Then, you just wait for the baked goodness to come out of your oven. Amazing! Try it out with different...

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How to Bake Smores Bread Pudding
May01

How to Bake Smores Bread Pudding

One of my favorite ways to use extra bread is to make bread pudding. Not only is it super easy, but it’s inexpensive and really tasty as well. Being that I lived in Texas & Louisiana for University, I learned a lot about Soul Food Recipes & Southern food in general. This is a real All-American dish, not just because it’s bread pudding, but because Smores is a very Americana type of dessert made at bonfires across...

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Kimberly Turner @ Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon St. Bistro & Oyster Bar
Dec27

Kimberly Turner @ Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon St. Bistro & Oyster Bar

Do you love Cajun, Creole or simply Southern cooking? Well, check out web chef, Kimberly Turner, in the kitchen with executive chef of Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon Street Bistro & Oyster Bar, Lyndon O’Hearn, creating New Orleans style deliciousness for you all to learn in the comfort of your own home… …or maybe it will just whet your taste buds and spark you to come on out and be gastronomically...

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Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon St. Bistro & Oyster Bar Does it Big!
Aug18

Toronto’s Big Daddy’s Bourbon St. Bistro & Oyster Bar Does it Big!

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 miss the people...

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How to BBQ Southwest Burgers
Aug01

How to BBQ Southwest Burgers

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 my Southwest BBQ Burgers!...

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How to Bake Fluffy Southern Corn Muffins
May08

How to Bake Fluffy Southern Corn Muffins

There is nothing like the smell and taste of freshly baked corn muffins. Paired alongside an amazing Southern Soul Food Dish, it’s the perfect accompaniment. If you add extra ingredients, you make the taste more complex and make these muffins something that stand alone as the perfect snack, even a part of a morning breakfast. Type: Muffin Recipe Serve With: Softened butter Prep Time: 8 mins Cook Time: 20-22 mins Yield: 12...

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How to Cook Kimberly’s Southern Hot Water Cornbread
Sep02

How to Cook Kimberly’s Southern Hot Water Cornbread

This is so delicious and needs no baking in the oven. A few simple ingredients and you have a feast fit for a Southern Belle and any Southern Gentleman. Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose cornmeal 1/2 cup flour 1 tbsp sugar 1/2 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp baking powder ~ 3/4 cup hot water 1 tbsp bacon grease or butter – Or you can use 1/2 tbsp olive oil. Do not use Margarine!!! 3 tbsp oil – To pan fry the cornbread in Instructions:...

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How to Make Melania’s ‘Killer’ Chimichurri Recipe
Aug30

How to Make Melania’s ‘Killer’ Chimichurri Recipe

My new friend and neighbor, Melania McCarley, from Dallas, Texas made us this recipe this weekend and she told us it was “killer”. Once we tasted it, we completely agreed – Wow! Amazing pico… Melania is originally from Costa Rica where they call this mixture chimichurri. Try it – you’ll love it – I begged her for the recipe, so I could share it with you, and be able to make it whenever we want...

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10 Finger Lickin’ Bacon Recipes
Aug29

10 Finger Lickin’ Bacon Recipes

Looking for amazing Bacon Recipes, since it is Saturday morning? You still have all weekend to make something finger lickin’ good… What’s better than Bacon to make everything taste so amazing? Plus, there are many different types of bacon that are more suited to various recipes. Here are a 10 Finger Lickin’ Bacon Recipes from my CookingWithKimberly.com Cookbook: 1. Beautiful Bacon Burgers – Try out...

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How to Grill Melanie Stewart’s “Best Burger in Dallas” at Lone Star Volleyball Club
Aug13

How to Grill Melanie Stewart’s “Best Burger in Dallas” at Lone Star Volleyball Club

Now, as you all know, I love BBQ and I love burgers! What you may not know is that we play sand volleyball every weekend and sometimes during the week when it’s nice weather here in Dallas – either at Lone Star Volleyball Club or at Yucatan Beach Club in Coppell, Texas – they’re right across the street from each other. Well, when we play at Lone Star, as long as Melanie Stewart is working that day, she makes us...

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