The 'How to Cook' Blog

It is my pleasure to present to you today my very 1st special guest on my show, my mother – Ingrid Turner from IngridTurnerToday.com to show you how to bake a coveted family recipe that’s been passed down many generations to make it to your screen today, and hopefully, into your home & heart. This is a Russian or German Mennonite recipe called Pirozhki. Now, today, we will be filling  [ Read More ]

This is one of our favorite Kasper family recipes…In fact, it’s the first recipe I learned to make on my own when I moved away from home. We don’t really eat the small, fluffy pancakes most families eat. We called these big, thin delights “pancakes”…our style of pancakes. Golden and delicious, these beautiful crepes can be eaten for breakfast, brunch or dinner, if desired. Try them…you’ll be so glad you  [ Read More ]

Ahhh…Zwieback!!! What could represent a soul food for German & Russian families better than Zwieback buns… I can remember the smell of zwieback baking in my grandmother’s farmhouse kitchen, my mother’s kitchen, as well as all of my aunts’ kitchens… …It is an ultimate goal of just about every extended-Kasper female in our family to have this recipe on hand, and hopefully learn to bake them well for ourselves…One day,  [ Read More ]

This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… So, we are still “cupboard cooking”. When I saw the beautiful lamb loin chops in the freezer, I also noticed our rhubarb we harvested in the summer, chopped & froze. Immediately, I thought of a great, hot dessert fit for this Canadian snow today. One of my favorite rhubarb recipes is our traditional Kasper Family  [ Read More ]

This dish includes traditionally German ingredients for a full meal in a baking dish. It’s lovely for a family dinner or for a smorgasbord buffet. ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Main Serve With: Nothing…It’s perfect all by itself! Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: 1 hr, 40 min Yield: 9 x 13′ casserole dish Ingredients:

In German Moos (pronounced “mouse”) is a “dried fruit sauce” or dessert stew. Often called “pluma moos” as well. It is most delicious, a dessert of love and amazing for the Holidays! Grandma Kasper was an amazing cook and everything she made was memorable! During the Holidays, this special Moos was a dessert, a treat, a snack and a wonderful addition to the flavors we remember being present during the  [ Read More ]

Oh wow…This recipe comes from generations before me on my mother’s, German side of the family…However, Paska is traditionally a Ukrainian Easter bread! Absolutely delicious and it wouldn’t be Easter without it! ~ Kimberly Edwards ;D Type: Bread Serve With: Fresh, organic butter Prep Time: ~ 3 hr 45 min Cook Time: ~ 1 hr. Nutrition Facts: * Please use organic ingredients whenever possible. Ingredients: Instructions:

This is a passed down family recipe from my German side. It is so delicious, everyone craves this soup when the weather outside is frightful! ~ Kimberly Edwards Type: Soup Serve With: Fresh, crusty bread, sour cream and/or vinegar Prep Time: ~ 15 min Cook Time: ~ 1 hr Yield: 1 large stock pot full Ingredients: Instructions:

Truth be told, I was a vegetarian for 3 yrs during college. That’s why I have a bunch of vegetarian recipes. Here is a breakfast recipe I specifically created for my hubby in college so that I could include as much protein and as little fat as possible in his diet. After all, we were athletes! ~ Kimberly Edwards According to Wikipedia, it is one of the oldest known meals  [ Read More ]

.This recipe is a spin-off of my mother’s German potatoes and pasta (she calls it ‘Kartofel and Kleisa’…spelling is soooo wrong…LOL). This basically means potatoes, pasta/noodles (or homemade dumplings like spaetzel) with onions, usually served with Mennonite Farmer’s sausage…YUUUMMM! …But, since you can’t get this Farmer’s sausage from Kitchener, ON, Canada all the time, and it runs out quickly in our house, even though we buy 25 lbs at a  [ Read More ]