Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
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 [...]
Today’s high (temperature) was 90 Degrees (F)! (32.33 Degrees C). That’s pretty hot for San Diego in April! Growing up in “The Valley*”, a high of 90 Degrees wasn’t really a big deal… I mean we had days over 100 degrees pretty often. Back then, we didn’t have “snow days”. We had “heat days”. But [...]
Over the weekend, we visited the Carlsbad Strawberry Company‘s “U-Pick” strawberry fields. For $20, they give you a large KFC sized paper bucket (and two adult admission tickets), and you can go down the rows of strawberries to pick and fill up your bucket. This was a really fun experience – our little nephew had [...]
This past weekend, I made cupcakes for my sister-in-law’s baby shower. I wanted to make something really special for them… and when my sister-in-law requested cupcakes, I figured I would try using fondant to make some cute decorations. On pinterest, I saw a cute idea for “baby in a pea pod” cupcakes… and thought [...]
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