Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
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 [...]
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, [...]
Happy Easter, everyone! I was thinking all week long… “Should I make something special for Easter?” In the end I just couldn’t decide… should I make my special onion skin dyed marbleized Easter Eggs? Should I make deviled eggs? Something bunny shaped? Time got the best of me, and I did NOTHING! Until last night… when I [...]
Where did the Girl Scouts go???? A few weeks ago, some Girl Scouts with a little table set up outside the supermarket suckered* me into buying boxes of Samoa Cookies, also know as “Caramel deLites”. (And by “suckered”, I mean they set up their table to be visible from the exit… I saw the boxes [...]
My husband isn’t much of a ‘foodie’. He doesn’t get all crazy about food the way I do… unless… it’s something sweet. He LOVES desserts. One day, several years ago, he was reminiscing about the amazing fudge that he used to buy while in primary school in Capetown, South Africa; “It’s creamy, not chocolaty, and [...]
Every Christmas, I like to make a big batch of Christmas Candy to give away to friends and neighbors. The easiest to make are my Chocolate Walnut Fudge and my White Chocolate Peppermint Bark recipes… mainly because these two candy recipes are made entirely in the microwave. It could not be any easier! For the [...]
In the Chinese (Lunar) calendar, the 15th day of the 8th month is considered the middle of the autumn season. On this day, the Chinese celebrate the “Mid-Autumn Festival”, also known as the “Moon Festival” (as this is the time of year the moon is considered the brightest and roundest). This year, 2012, the Moon [...]
Last week, my husband’s sister and her husband moved down from Sacramento to San Diego. One of their last stops in Sacramento, before making the final drive down South, was to a local bakery called the “Cookie Connection.” They got a huge stack of cookies for the road (and some extra to share)… Oatmeal Raisin, [...]
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