Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
(Original Post Date: October 12, 2010) I’m still trying to use up all of the cherry tomatoes I harvested (green) a week ago, as I mentioned in my last post: Green Nightshade Berry Cake. Those green tomatoes have now counter-ripened into a nice red color. I came home from work and wondered, “What am I going [...]
(Original Post Date: October 2, 2010) According to my Taiwanese/Chinese husband, there are two versions of this famous beef soup in Taiwan: a slightly sweet mild version, and a really spicy/more savory version. After trying out a bunch of different recipes for a “David approved” beef noodle soup, I finally perfected the recipe into this [...]
(Original Post Date: September 26, 2010) Today was my good friend’s baby shower. She’s having a girl, and I thought these cookie mixes for “Cowgirl Cookies” would make a really cute party favors. Since the mom and dad-to-be have the last name “Ko”, we thought it would be even cuter to re-name them “KOwgirl Cookies.” [...]
(Original Post Date: September 21, 2010) Lately I’ve noticed the supermarket produce section bursting with juicy plums… giving me the sudden desire to make Spiced Black Plum Jam. After making up a batch of jam with roughly 4 pounds of Black Plums, I realized that I didn’t have enough jars for all the extra jam. [...]
(Original Post Date: September 12, 2010) This afternoon, I felt like baking something… something new and interesting. So I google searched for Austrian recipes, as I had Mohnkuchen (Austrian Poppy Seed Cake) in mind. Instead, I stumbled across this recipe for Poppy Seed Bread, erroneously under the heading of “German food”. Although there are similarities, German food [...]
(Original Post Date: September 3, 2010) This has probably been the coldest summer I can remember in Southern California. It looks like summer is finally here though… (now that fall is right around the corner). The weather has been nice and warm for about a week straight, and it looks like most of my tomato [...]
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