Well, hello again! The Cooking With Kimberly relaunch is here, and we have twenty years of kitchen adventures to celebrate. 🙂

Come on in. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Cooking With Kimberly is back—and this October marks twenty years since I started CWK in October 2006.

Twenty years of recipes, cooking shows, experiments, ingredients, family stories, and figuring out what to make with whatever happens to be in the garden, the pantry, or the fridge.

It feels very good to welcome you back.

A Long-Awaited Cooking With Kimberly Relaunch

If you came looking for a recipe while the website was unavailable, thank you for coming back.

Following a security incident, getting Cooking With Kimberly online again took much longer than I wanted. There was a substantial archive to recover, a website to rebuild, and plenty to work through behind the scenes.

I missed having this place to share with you.

Now the doors are open again. Familiar recipes and cooking shows are returning to the table alongside new posts, fresh ideas, and a new way to explore the CWK library.

There is still work ahead as I continue tending this enormous collection. But we are cooking again—and that is something worth celebrating.

Find Your Next Delicious Idea

One of the things I am most excited to share is the CWK Recipe Index.

Over twenty years, a cooking website can become quite a pantry. You know there is something wonderful in there; sometimes you just need a better way to find it.

The new visual index gives you several places to begin:

• Seasonal inspiration: ideas for what is fresh and what you feel like cooking right now.
• Ingredients: start with something you have and explore where it can take you.
• World cuisines: follow your curiosity through different flavours and food traditions.
• Cooking styles: explore ways to prepare and enjoy your food.
• The full A–Z index: browse the wider library when you want to wander.

Open Recipe Index from the site menu to explore, or use the recipe search when you already have something in mind.

My hope is that you will find an old favourite, discover something unexpected, and leave with an idea you are excited to try.

New Recipes—and the Stories Around Them

There is plenty more on the way: new recipes, seasonal vegetables, garden ingredients, pantry cooking, and the little kitchen discoveries that deserve to be shared.

You will also find Real Food Memories—stories about the people, places, and ordinary moments that stay with us through food.

One of the first stories I am sharing for this return goes right back to when I was a baby: a family road trip in 1976, a dark burgundy Cadillac Eldorado, and my father warming my glass bottle of formula on the hot engine block.

Yes. The Cadillac was apparently our bottle warmer. LOL.

I was far too young to remember that trip, but I have heard the story my whole life. Sharing it as Cooking With Kimberly returns feels especially fitting: a family memory from fifty years ago, meeting a cooking project that has now been part of my life for twenty.

That is what I love about food stories. A meal, an ingredient, or even a baby bottle can bring a whole family moment back into view.

Thank You for Being Here

Whether you have watched the cooking shows for years, used a recipe once and kept coming back, or have only just found Cooking With Kimberly—welcome.

Thank you for making room for me in your kitchens.

I am looking forward to sharing more with you, revisiting old favourites, and seeing what we discover next.

What would you like to see make its debut? And is there an old CWK recipe or cooking show you are especially happy to find again?

Here is to twenty years—and to getting back into the kitchen together.

Be a Champion in Your Kitchen, and Eat Deliciously!

With love,
Kimberly