Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
Here’s my quick and easy Nacho Cheese Sauce dip recipe. It’s made with simple ingredients that you probably already have at home… butter, flour, milk, and cheese… spiced up with a jalapeño pepper. (If you prefer less spicy, you can omit the jalapeño or substitute the jalapeño with 2 T. diced mild green chiles or your favorite salsa.) [...]
I don’t often drink regular Coke (Diet Coke is my soda of choice)… but when we do end up with a leftover bottle of regular Coca Cola in the refrigerator… KALIMOTXO time!!!! What is Kalimotxo (sometimes spelled “Calimocho”)???? Well, it’s a very simple Spanish cocktail made with half Coke and half cheap red wine, served [...]
Earlier this week, I read some articles on the “Watermelon Toast” craze that has hit Taiwan. Lee Wen-fa (a head baker at Jimmy’s Bakery in Yilan County, Taiwan) created a fantastic watermelon shaped and colored loaf of fluffy Asian style milk bread (shokupan) in order to “encourage young children to eat more during the hot summer [...]
This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes… white cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese frosting! One of the reason that I like this recipe so much, is that it is very customizable. The white cake is a good base for pretty much any flavor you want to add (vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon extract, pandan [...]
Here’s an easy weeknight dinner idea – a one pot recipe for chicken drumsticks or thighs. For appetizers, this recipe also works well with chicken wings or drumettes. You could substitute with chicken breast for a leaner meal – but I like using dark meat for the best flavor (and because dark meat doesn’t dry [...]
Years ago, we had a bunch of native sages growing in our front yard. Among them, was Salvia columbariae, a.k.a. “Chia Sage”. Many people don’t realize that the “chia seeds” that have become so popular in health food stores and farmer’s markets (also as Chia pets!)… are actually seeds from a sage plant native to [...]
If you have ever been to a Hawaiian luau, one of the main attractions is the preparation/serving of “Kālua pig” – a whole pig that is roasted using the “Kālua” method. Kālua is a traditional cooking method in Hawaiian cuisine that uses a specially prepared underground oven, called an “imu“. To make an “imu“, a large [...]
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