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 [...]
A couple days ago, I posted a tutorial on how to butcher a whole beef tenderloin (PiSMO) into filet mignon steaks. I usually do this about 3 times a year… mainly when we have company over for dinner, and typically for Christmas Eve dinner. My most favorite method for preparing filet mignon is based on [...]
Several years ago, I learned how to butcher a whole beef tenderloin (a.k.a. “pismo”) from watching my favorite Food Network star, Alton Brown. His show “Good Eats” was my FAVORITE! (I recorded so many episodes that I ran out of space on the DVR). Anyway, one night, I watched the episode of Good Eats [...]
My favorite summer beverages are fresh Watermelon Milk (Xigua Niu Nai) and fresh Watermelon Juice (Xigua Zhi). We don’t really live near any Boba tea shops… otherwise I could get Watermelon drink fix pretty easily… so I usually have to make my own during the summer when watermelon is in season. Last year when we [...]
I recently attended a conference at the Hilton Hotel at the convention center in Anaheim. During one of the breaks, they put out these awesome fresh-baked cookies: chocolate chip, some kind of caramel toffee chip, oatmeal raisin, and the most awesome cookie ever – a giant snickerdoodle! The snickerdoodle was soft and fluffy, buttery and [...]
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