Cooking Resources

Great cooking is about more than following a recipe. Sometimes you need to know how an ingredient behaves, what you can substitute, how to use a particular technique, or what to do when dinner is already on the stove and something isn’t going according to plan.

The Cooking With Kimberly resource library brings together practical cooking knowledge from across the site—from techniques and ingredient guides to kitchen tips, food safety, nutrition, meal planning, and the little bits of know-how that make cooking easier.

Cooking Techniques & How-To Guides

Learn the methods behind the recipes. Explore cooking techniques, preparation methods, kitchen skills, and step-by-step guidance designed to help you understand not only what to do, but why it works.

• Explore cooking techniques
• Browse how-to cooking guides
• Find kitchen tips

Ingredients & Substitutions

Ingredients don’t always cooperate with our plans. You may be missing something, cooking for a particular dietary need, working with an unfamiliar ingredient, or simply trying to use what you already have.

• Find ingredient substitutions
• Explore ingredient guides

Meal Planning & Everyday Cooking

Cooking well also means figuring out what to make in the first place. Browse ideas for planning meals, using leftovers, making the most of seasonal ingredients, and turning what’s already in the kitchen into something delicious.

• Explore meal-planning ideas
• Find ideas for using leftovers
• Explore seasonal cooking

Food Safety, Nutrition & Wellness

Good kitchen knowledge includes understanding safe food handling as well as the nutritional qualities of the foods we prepare. Cooking With Kimberly includes practical information about food safety, nutrition, ingredients, and nourishing ways to cook and eat.

• Browse food-safety information
• Explore nutrition and wellness

Search the Cooking With Kimberly Library

With thousands of recipes, cooking shows, ingredient features, techniques, reviews, food stories, and reference articles in the Cooking With Kimberly archive, there is much more to explore than can fit on a single resource page.

If you don’t see exactly what you’re looking for here, use the site search or open the Recipe Index to explore the wider Cooking With Kimberly library.

A Cooking Library That Keeps Growing

Cooking is something you can study for a lifetime and still discover something new. That’s part of the fun.

As Cooking With Kimberly continues to grow, this resource library will grow with it—bringing together useful guides, references, conversions, techniques, ingredient knowledge, seasonal ideas, and other tools that can help you become a more confident and resourceful cook.

A recipe gives you instructions. Understanding gives you freedom.