Put Your Shaker on the Shelf for No Salt Week
The first week of October is National No Salt Week. Generally speaking, the less sodium (salt) in your diet, the better. A decent target for salt is 2,000 mg sodium or less. Salt in excess, tends to encourage your body to retain water instead of using that water to flush toxins & waste from your system. Excess amounts of salt adversely affects the heart and arteries, and can cause feet to swell and can even cause heart attacks....
How to Cook Green Split Pea Soup
Although we’re certainly looking at some warmer, Spring-time weather, it’s quite gloomy and cool today. It’s the perfect time to make a great soup, in my personal opinion, and a bag of green split peas is what sparked me today to create one of my traditional favorites, Green Split Pea Soup. Experiment with different meats and liquids (water, teas, broths) you’d like to add, if you so choose. You’ll enjoy...
How to Cook Kimberly’s Fejoida – The Brazilian National Dish
Fejoida is the national dish of Brazil. It is a stew that has pork, pork and more pork in it and is traditionally eaten with white rice, cooked greens and slices of fresh orange. This is a peasant-style dish that the slaves of Colonial Brazil created using parts & pieces of pork the farmers discarded such as the ears, feet or hocks, and tail; however, today, other delicious forms of pork meat are used to enhance the flavor and...
How to Make a Really Tasty, Healthy Nicoise Salad
Don’t let the name of the Niçoise salad scare you! Yes, it’s French. No, it’s not difficult to make. No, it’s not really fattening. Nicoise is just a combination of greens, tuna, green beans, new potatoes, tomatoes, black olives and eggs – traditionally. That’s all it means… Okay – now that’s out of the way – let’s get cooking and create this unbelievably tasty salad...
Healthy School Lunches – Be Ready for Back to School
Instead of sending your child through the cafeteria line with a $10 bill each day for school, get into the trend of packing them a healthy lunch. Healthy is in right now, as is budgeting. So, your child will not be the only one brown bagging or bento box-ing lunch this year! Keeping your kids healthy should be of paramount importance to you and here’s how you can improve their lunches…the easy way! Think of food in 6...
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:...
How to Cook Kimberly’s “Non-Italian” Minestrone Soup
I enjoy Italian soups, but my mother always prefers a more rustic version with more vegetables, and less spices and flavors. So, I’ve decided to make my “Non-Italian” Minestrone Soup for us tonight! ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type: Main – Soup Serve With: Fresh, Crusty Italian or French Bread Prep Time: 20 min Cook Time: 2 1/2 hrs. Yield: 1 large stock pot full Ingredients: 4-5 pieces Bacon – Sliced or chunked...
How to Make Kimberly’s Healthy Pre-Party Juice
A healthy beverage of fresh fruit juices before you go out for a night on the town…Take care of yourself and be careful out there!!! ~ Kimberly Edwards ;D * Please use organic fruit whenever possible! Type: Beverage Prep Time: ~ 8 min Yield: ~ 7 cups of juice…Enough for ~ 4 people Nutrition Facts: Soooo full of vitamins, minerals, water and nutrients… Ingredients: Instructions: 1. Wash apples with fruit spray and...
How to Cook Kimberly’s Vegetable Barley Soup
Delicious, nutritious and meatless! Some nights, I just cannot eat any more meat during the week…This is the perfect recipe for a cold day! Very satisfying because of the barley and beans, which makes a complete protein. ~ Kimberly Edwards ;D Type: Soup Serve With: Fresh, crusty bread Prep Time: ~ 15 min Cook Time: ~ 45 min Yield: 1 large stock pot full * I use organic ingredients for this recipe… Ingredients: 3 large...
A Salad Bar At Home?
Yup…This is an awesome idea, especially since many people have a New Year’s Resolution of eating healthier and being more fit… * Please try to eat organic vegetables…Don’t fill your body with chemicals! *** Save Money and Make an Easy Salad Bar at Home By Monica Resinger One thing I like to do for dinner, that my family loves, is make a salad bar. It’s easy, inexpensive, fun, healthy and is always...
Enjoy The Sunset of Summer With A Healthy Barbecue Or Picnic
Summer is coming to a close…It is truly the Sunset of Summer…Don’t you want to enjoy the last bit of summer barbecuing out on your deck or picnicking in the park with family and friends? Well, I certainly do, and I intend to. If you’re anything like me, you are trying to soak up every last ray of sunshine of the summer. I am even working outside, instead of at our kitchen table. I am not a huge fan of winter,...
How to Cook Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy + Video
If you love #liver – then, you’ll love my Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy recipe! Okay, I really really disliked liver and onions when I was a kid. Uhhhhh. The reason why? Well, apart from the fact that my parents told me it was beaver tail (uh, yeah, true story), but it tasted so disgustingly nasty to me. I still have a liver block to this day. However, my mother and sister are liver freaks! Well, I...
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How to Cook Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy + Video
August 9, 2007| 5 CommentsIf you love #liver - then, you'll love my Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy recipe! Okay, I really... -
How to Brine a Whole Chicken + Video
April 30, 2012| 3 CommentsThe most effective, easiest and inexpensive way to impart flavor into your whole bird (albeit a chicken, duck, turkey, hen)... -
How to Scald Milk for Baking + Video
October 14, 2010| 9 CommentsDon't worry...Many people don't know what it means to Scald Milk for Baking! In fact, it's somewhat of an outdated... -
How to Make a Saltine Cracker Pie Crust
November 25, 2008| 1 CommentLooking for a great alternative to a shortening-enriched, pastry crust? Here's your answer! Great for fruit pies and tarts, meringues... -
How To Peel Small Onions Quickly & Easily
June 9, 2008| 3 CommentsWhether they are small white onions, pearl onions, small red onions, shallots or any other type of small onion...and you... -
How to Slow Roast Chicken with the Best Skin Ever + Video
April 1, 2008| 8 CommentsI discovered this amazing trick unintentionally... When we were in university, there were times I would use my slow cooker,... -
How to Marinate Sirloin Tip Steak + Video
July 24, 2012Tonight, I have decided to BBQ some sirloin tip steaks that looked beautiful from my grocer. It is a marinating...
