Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
Have you noticed a lot of ice cream labels these days? Many of them no longer say ‘Ice Cream’… they actually say ‘Frozen Dairy Dessert’!!! What happened to ‘Ice Cream’ and why are we all eating ‘Frozen Dairy Dessert’ instead? I suspect it has something to do with the “healthy eating” movement. People have become [...]
On our recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, we had dinner at the Kamuela Provision Company at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort. We tried the Ginger Steamed Monchong… OMG it was to die for! So soft and tender… flavored with a tasty ginger-soy-hot peanut oil sauce. I vowed that when I got home, [...]
Fresh cannolis are one of my favorite Italian (Sicilian) pastries… crisp flaky pastry on the outside, sweet creamy filling on the inside… yum! Good cannoli are hard to find, though… not very many places around here sell them fresh, and nothing is worse than taking home a soggy cannoli! My solution, of course, was to [...]
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