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...
How to Cook Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon
Spice up your plate tonight with Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon! Tonight, I’m cooking salmon, but I wanted to pan sauté it with a bit of a new flare. Pan Sauteed Wasabi Crusted Salmon: I saw wasabi peas in my pantry and decided to grind them or pulverize them in the food processor to use as the “dredging flour” to kick it up a hundred notches! One of my favorite combinations is when I have salmon sushi with...
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...
Pappardelle with Oxtail in Light Stewed Tomato Sauce – What Did Kimberly Eat?
Last night, I had one of the most delicious pasta dishes I’ve had in a while, aside from the Gnocchi with Porcini Mushrooms in Cream Sauce I had the night before. I had Pappardelle pasta in a stewed tomato sauce with Oxtail & fresh peas. It was perfectly done, right from the al-dente pappardelle pasta, which is one of my very favorite long shaped pastas (it’s like big, long ribbons of pasta), but the oxtail was tender...
How to Cook Brown Rice with Lentils: Cupboard Cooking
Today is Day 3 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike. This is what I made as a side dish for tonight’s dinner using my “cupboard cooking” strategies. This went with my Coconut Crusted Baked Salmon and peas with toasted coconut. The reason I combined the lentils with the brown rice is to make a complete protein. It’s very difficult to get my mother to eat meat of any kind. She just doesn’t feel like it much. So,...
One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 2
This is Day Two of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! Yesterday for breakfast, we had eggs – I still need my protein in my diet since I’m training… For lunch, we had some frozen chicken hot dogs with the bread I made in the bread machine the day before. For dinner, I created my Moroccan Chickpea Soup! Yes, we had everything in our house already for this soup: dry chickpeas that I cooked up, a package of frozen...
How to Cook Moroccan Chickpea Soup
Today, I wanted to share with you How to Cook Moroccan Chickpea Soup! I had the craving for chick peas today and decided to do something different with them than making my hummus recipe! Chickpea stew is on order today, as it is snowing outside and because I love to eat soup any day! Lentils can sometimes be substituted or used in addition to the chickpeas. Moroccan spices are filling the household right now, and we all can’t...
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...
How to Cook Kimberly’s Jamaican Jerk Chicken Recipe
Jerk chicken is a fun recipe to try to cook! It seems like a lot of ingredients to add, but typically they’re all sitting in your pantry already. Adding “this and that”, you’re going to look like a real pro in the kitchen! LOL…and the flavor will surprise you! Try it! Type: Chicken Recipe Serve With: Rice and peas Prep Time: 15 min + overnight marinating time Yield: Enough to marinate 3.5 lbs chicken and...
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 Cook Kimberly’s Healthy Green Garden Vegetable Soup
I had no idea what I would make tonight for dinner for my family, except I wanted something warm like soup on this cold, rainy night. I looked in the fridge and saw we happened to have a lot of green vegetables…This is my tasty creation everyone loved; there’s almost none left. Very healthy and warms your soul. Enjoy! Type: Soup Recipe Serve With: Fresh, crusty bread Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins Yield: 1 large...
How to Cook Caribbean Style Rainbow Trout Recipe
Tonight, I needed something really tasty and different for dinner – I was bored, so Caribbean Style Rainbow Trout sounded perfect! Caribbean Style Rainbow Trout: So, instead of the typical lemon, butter, dill combination on fish, I switched it up a bit. Caribbean flavors can spice up your taste buds and your dinner table! Try out this fabulous Caribbean Style Rainbow Trout! You’ll be so glad you did! Type: Fish Recipe...
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...
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