Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
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 [...]
I was browsing the meat department at the supermarket the other day, and came across a package of thin cut sirloin steaks marked “buy one get one free”. Well ok then! Each package contained about 4 thin-cut steaks, so that worked out to about $1.25 a steak! Score. For REAL steaks (for the grill), I [...]
Avocado sale at the supermarket… 2 avocados for $1, woo hoo!!!! So now, what do I do with this wealth of avocados? My diet hasn’t been the healthiest lately and I have been craving all kinds of sugary and fatty sweets… especially brownies! So I created a healthier version of my most favorite brownie recipe, [...]
Yay, it’s strawberry season! That means fresh juicy ripe strawberries are everywhere, on sale for as little as $0.88/lb. When strawberries went on special at the market a few days ago, I thought this would be the perfect time to make a fresh strawberry custard cream pie! When making this pie, I find it easier [...]
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