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How to Make Guapa Guacamole
Sep19

How to Make Guapa Guacamole

The best part, to me, about Mexican food is the guacamole! There may always be enough rice & beans, but there’s never enough guacamole! ~ Ingrid Turner This recipe for my Guapa Guacamole is very simple to make, is extremely tasty and works with your taste preferences. “Guapa” in Spanish means “lovely”, and this is surely just that… Lovely with warm tortilla chips straight from the oven or the...

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Olé, it’s National Guacamole Day: How to Make Guapa Guacamole
Sep16

Olé, it’s National Guacamole Day: How to Make Guapa Guacamole

If you’re a lover of Mexican cuisine, then National Guacamole Day will make you say, “Olé!” Made with cream avocado, personally, I love them in any form, and as often as possible. Guacamole is the perfect dip for tortilla chips, raw veggies, as a taco filling or a topping for meat, fish or any savory Mexican delight. Besides being delicious, avocados are beautiful to the eye. I even like guacamole on eggs, toast,...

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Web Chef Review: The Garlic Survival Co.’s Triple Garlic Salsa
Jul16

Web Chef Review: The Garlic Survival Co.’s Triple Garlic Salsa

My mother over at IngridTurnerToday.com and I checked out this really great salsa. It’s The Garlic Survival Co.’s Triple Garlic Salsa, and it is belligerent to say the least! Gluten free and fat free, this salsa is a real winner. Their motto is “More garlic. Not heat.” Their Triple Garlic Salsa is garlicky, but it’s really not overwhelming where it “bites” you. It’s so tasty with 3...

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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 Cook with Holiday Turkey Leftovers – 4 Winning Recipes
Nov23

How to Cook with Holiday Turkey Leftovers – 4 Winning Recipes

Now that you’ve had your stellar Holiday Feast, you are probably looking to do something DIFFERENT with your Holiday Turkey Leftovers this season… Well, I’m so glad you said that! LOL Aside from the ever-so-delicious open-faced hot turkey sandwiches with gravy that I know you’re going to have to tear up at least once for leftovers because it’s so belligerently tasty, here are 4  of my favorite turkey...

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How to Cook Tomato, Ham & Cheese Quesadillas
Sep24

How to Cook Tomato, Ham & Cheese Quesadillas

The other day, I was looking for a quick meal that I could create with the limited ingredients I had before going grocery shopping. I had ham, but no bread, and then noticed my handy tortillas and it clicked… A Tex-Mex/All-American fusion lunch quesadilla. What is more “All-American” than ham & cheese, right? Well, add a tomato, just to kick it up, make it more moist and give you more of a health benefit. Now,...

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Exciting Ideas on How to Crust Meat with Crumbs
Jul04

Exciting Ideas on How to Crust Meat with Crumbs

I often get bored of using the same old bread crumbs. So, I simply don’t! I will often use different kinds of bread, toast it and pulverize it into crumbs. Try using rye bread, wheat breads, different grain breads. I also love using different kinds of chips and crackers for an exciting new crust on meats and special vegetables such as for Eggplant Parmesan. Try using potato chips, tortilla chips, or pulverized crackers like...

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How to Cook Goat Cheese, Roasted Red Pepper & Crimini Mushroom Quesadilla
Jan06

How to Cook Goat Cheese, Roasted Red Pepper & Crimini Mushroom Quesadilla

Late Night Snack Time… What to make? What’s super tasty, quick & easy? Quesadillas! Surprisingly enough, quesadillas are speedy to make and can be packed with utter deliciousness to curb that late night craving! Tonight, I thought outside of the box to make a specialty quesadilla that’s not Mexican in flavors. Type: Snack Recipe Serve With: Salsa, if desired Prep Time: 5 min Cook Time: 12 min Yield: Serves 3...

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Taco Cabana in Rockwall, Texas: Dallas Restaurant Review

My hubby and I often sneak off to Taco Cabana during the day if we need a quick meal while we’re working on fixing up a property or simply running around doing errands. For lunch today, that’s exactly what we did. We stopped at the Taco Cabana in Rockwall, Texas (Dallas) off I-30 by the lake. It sure looked like a nice location and everything was clean and new. We ordered our usual favorite – Bean and Cheese tacos...

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How to Cook Vegetarian Chili Made in a Bare-Bones Fixer-Upper Investment Property Kitchen
Sep10

How to Cook Vegetarian Chili Made in a Bare-Bones Fixer-Upper Investment Property Kitchen

That’s right! You can be healthy and still cook real recipes, even if you only have a bare bones kitchen when fixing up an investment property… We spend so much time at our rehab properties that we often end up staying in one to get more cleaning and repairing done, which leaves us with limited seasonings, fresh foods and large appliances to work with. For dinner today, I made a vegetarian chili out of what we had left in...

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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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How to Cook Kenney’s Superbowl Nacho Dip for Tailgating
Feb01

How to Cook Kenney’s Superbowl Nacho Dip for Tailgating

Exclusively for Cooking With Kimberly, this is an amazing tailgating recipe for Kenney’s Superbowl Nacho Dip. Great for any sporing event! It’s easy and you’ll love it… Check out this fun video: Instead of making nachos, we thought we may not eat it all, as we had eaten not too long before this, so we made nacho dip instead, so people could take what they wanted and it would be easy to store and eat tomorrow if...

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Football Playoffs Food – Tailgating at it’s Best!
Jan18

Football Playoffs Food – Tailgating at it’s Best!

The final round of NFL Playoffs is today. There are 2 games – one at 3:00 pm EST, and one at 6:30 pm EST. Well, if you’re a football fan, I know you must LOVE tailgating too… Now, tailgating doesn’t just mean those of us out at the football stadium, camping out to enjoy amazing food… No, not at all… You’re a tailgater if you make special football appetizers and assorted “MAN-FOOD”...

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