Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
Last month, I posted a recipe for Butternut Squash Risotto that you can make with pretty much any vegetable puree. However, I also wanted to share a Basic Risotto Recipe that you can easily sub ingredients for whatever you have on hand. This version calls for Artichoke – but you can use mushrooms, sun dried [...]
With Christmas coming up next week, I thought I would share one of my favorite holiday meal side dishes… Sweet Potato Casserole! Made from whole sweet potatoes (or yams), this dish is rich and satisfying… and perfect for a cold winter evening! I like to make this with a crunch pecan & brown sugar topping. [...]
It’s time for the Holiday season! With Thanksgiving over, and Christmas coming up… that means Christmas cookies!!! (Or, if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it just means COOKIE TIME!!!) It’s time to start baking! :) Spritz cookies are always a favorite to put in mixed cookie platters… they also make a wonder buttery cookie to bring [...]
After Thanksgiving, many people wonder what they can make with all the leftover turkey! After the meal is over, I usually simmer the leftover roasted turkey carcass (bones, skin, & wings) to make a hearty turkey stock to use another day. That stock, combined with any leftover meat, will make a wonderful meal of “Turkey [...]
I remember the first time I roasted a thanksgiving turkey. I followed the advice of some website I read, and roasted the turkey breast side down – supposedly to keep it “juicy”. What did I end up with? An ugly flesh colored bird, with rubbery skin, that was neither “juicy” nor appetizing. The meat was [...]
Butternut squash risotto is a wonderful warm fall dish – it’s comforting and is a rich and satisfying meal for a cold fall or winter evening! If you have a lot of pumpkin puree leftover from Halloween… you can even substitute the butternut squash for pumpkin with no problem! In the produce section of the [...]
Happy Halloween everyone!!!! When the night is over, don’t forget to reclaim your Jack O’lanterns to make pumpkin puree. You can then freeze the puree, and use it throughout the year to make pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup… whatever you feel like! Making pumpkin puree from field pumpkins is a little bit time consuming, [...]
With several holidays just around the corner… Halloween, Thanksgiving… and all the December holidays… many of us may need appetizer recipes that are easy to prep and serve. Mini quiches are the answer! You can make the tart shells for these mini quiches a few days ahead of time, then add whatever ingredients you have [...]
My husband LOVES flan. I’ve never understood why… every time I had flan in a restaurant it was lumpy and hard with a congealed cottage cheese texture – served in a bitter burnt-sugar tasting sauce. It reminded me of curdled milk… yuck! Since then, I’ve realized that is NOT how flan is supposed to be… [...]
Every Halloween, I go through the same thing. I stay up really really late the night before carving Jack o’lanterns (storing them in the empty garage refrigerator overnight)… then I put them out at dusk to greet all the neighborhood kids that come by trick or treating. After the crowds have gone, I reclaim the [...]
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