Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
In Italian, “affogato” means “drowned” or “drowned in coffee“…. and refers to an Italian espresso-based beverage (or dessert) in which hot espresso is poured over a scoop of ice cream or gelato. In it’s simplest form, you would just pair a shot of espresso with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make an Affogato. [...]
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 [...]
Last year, I visited the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Plantation in Hilo, Hawaii. We got there about 1 hour before closing – just enough time to wander outside and check out some of the Macadamia Nut trees, buy some vacuum-sealed packs of Macadamia nuts to bring home, and sample some of their awesome Macadamia Nut [...]
Do you need to make ice cream for someone lactose intolerant or someone who is avoiding dairy? This is a good base recipe for lactose-free vanilla ice cream – just use mocha mix non-dairy creamer instead of cream and milk. Texture-wise, it isn’t quite as creamy as real dairy vanilla ice cream – it’s a [...]
I know it’s supposed to be “winter” and all… but it’s 81 Degrees outside right now! (And last weekend, we had a high of 87 Degrees!!!!) Has summer started early or something??? I walked outside with my jacket on, promptly took it off, then had to blast the air conditioning in my car… (My apologies [...]
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 [...]
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