How to Cook Holiday Whipped Sweet Potatoes + Video
We love Holiday fare in our home and one of the house favorites is my recipe for How to Cook Holiday Whipped Sweet Potatoes. Light, fluffy clouds of sweet potato deliciousness is on your horizon… These potatoes are spicy, buttery and creamy with Holiday seasonings and you just need to smell them to know they are going to be fantastic. Sweet potatoes are often thought of as a heavy vegetable, and they are nutrient dense as well....
What’s to Love About National Leftover Day?
The 4th Friday of November is National Leftover Day! Hallelujah! It’s the day after, the guests are gone, and the leftovers are delectable! Of course, you have refrigerated everything you can. I don’t enjoy reheated meat – it just tastes odd to me. So, the meat goes into the oven to be warmed just above room temperature. There’s lots of stuffing & cranberry sauce leftover. Mashed potatoes – no...
How to Bake Indian Pudding: National Indian Pudding Day
National Indian Pudding Day is upon us, and if you’ve never had this delicious, native American dessert, it’s something special. This is a warming, hearty dessert it flavors emulating those of pumpkin pie. Indian pudding is a baked dessert wit the baking dish sitting in water, keeping the pudding from drying out & losing its silky texture. How to Bake Indian Pudding: This recipe is definitely a keeper. It’s...
How to Cook Pumpkin Puree + Video
Many recipes during the Holiday season call for Pumpkin Puree, and we are going to make sure you have this recipe under your belt. Pumpkin puree can be used for various sweet & savory dishes throughout the colder months. Pies, breads & cakes, as well as soups, casseroles, stews & other side dishes. Now, you can go with store bought pie filling when you’re making your Holiday pumpkin pie, but this is one place you...
How to Clean a Pumpkin: Break Down & Disassemble + Video
If you haven’t used fresh pumpkin to cook before, it’s well worth the effort. With a little bit of elbow grease, you can have that pumpkin broken down and disassembled in no time. Reserve the seeds for roasting, and you’ll have a healthy, tasty snack too. You can use this pumpkin, now, to cook down for pumpkin pie filling, grill or roast chunks of flesh on the BBQ or in the oven. Adding pumpkin to soups & stews...
How to Roast Acorn Squash + Video
Roasted Acorn Squash is a great addition to your Fall side dish repertoire. Kids should even like this recipe too, since we’ve kept it simple, but you can add brown sugar and more “pumpkin pie spices” to the squash to get a more desirous flavor for the children. How to Roast Acorn Squash: Golden fleshed squash ready for your table. Get out of the cold and into your kitchen! Type: Side Dish Recipe Serve with: butter...
How to Grill Pumpkin on the BBQ + Video
If you’ve never Grilled Pumpkin on the BBQ before, what a great change! Fall is here, and it’s time for some recipes worthy of the season. The grill is a great tool to impart hearty grilled flavors into foods that satiate you on a level that cannot be compared to other cooking methods. Pumpkin, often reserved for sweets, or in soups & stews, is much for versatile than most would think. Grilling vegetables is super...
October Food Holidays & Events
Here are October Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Easy Nutrition & Health Guidelines Browse Healthy shows, Healthy recipes Browse Organic shows, Organic recipes Browse Vegetarian + Vegan shows, Vegetarian recipes,...
How to Bake Pumpkin Bread in a Bread Machine
If you are looking for the right recipe for pumpkin bread, then this is it…especially if you want to use your bread machine! When we make pumpkin pie filling from scratch for pumpkin pies over the Holidays, you’re bound to always have more than you need. This often happens in our household, so we store the rest in the freezer in serving size bags or containers. These portions are perfect for my pumpkin bread recipes,...
The Desserts of Thanksgiving at a Glance
This is a quick list of recipes for Thanksgiving Desserts at a quick glance, especially for Cooking With Kimberly readers! If you’re looking for the traditional stuff, it’s here…And, if you’re looking for something a bit different, you’ll find it in this list too! (More recipes are to come before this Thanksgiving…Keep Your Eyes Open on this Blog!) Desserts: Perfect Pumpkin Pie Filling Mom’s...
How to Make Homemade Whipped Cream + Video
There is nothing tastier than Homemade Whipped Cream. If you’ve never tried it, and are still eating those store-bought whipped products, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE MISSING! Try it…It’s easy and so worth the small effort! Homemade Whipped Cream: Don’t succumb to settling for what comes in a package or a tub at your grocer. With two ingredients & just a few minutes, you will have the tastiest...
How to Bake Kimberly’s Perfect Pumpkin Spice Loaf
Somehow, we always have extra pumpkin pie filling left over after Thanksgiving, not to mention our pumpkins we use up after Halloween time. Create some new recipes to get your fall fix! ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type: Dessert Serve With: Kimberly’s Creamed Cheese Icing Prep Time: 10 min Cook Time: 1 hr for a large loaf, 25 min for large muffins Yield: This recipe made 1 large loaf and 9 large muffins. Ingredients: Instructions: 1....
How to Cook Kimberly’s Whipped Sweet Potatoes
This recipe for How to Cook Whipped Sweet Potatoes is a nice change that’s really delicious for the Holidays. My goal was to make a sweet potato dish for Thanksgiving and Christmas that didn’t taste like the traditional style of tasting very similar to pumpkin pie filling as a side dish. This gives you the amazing flavor of sweet potatoes, but gives it it’s own identity, not that of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and...