Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
I love cheese. Especially fresh homemade ricotta cheese! One of my favorites ways to eat fresh ricotta is with a sprinkle of pine nuts and a light drizzle of honey. Yum!!! Making ricotta is so easy and simple. And once you taste it fresh, you’ll never buy the stuff in the plastic tubs again. All [...]
Limoncello is an Italian Lemon Liqueur, made from grain alcohol infused with lemon peels, served (chilled) after dinner in tiny cordial glasses. Traditional Limoncello is produced in Southern Italy along the Amalfi Coast, from Sorrento Lemons (Limone di Sorrento). Here in Southern California, access to Sorrento Lemons is quite limited – but one of the [...]
(Original Post Date: October 12, 2010) I’m still trying to use up all of the cherry tomatoes I harvested (green) a week ago, as I mentioned in my last post: Green Nightshade Berry Cake. Those green tomatoes have now counter-ripened into a nice red color. I came home from work and wondered, “What am I going [...]
(Original Post Date: September 3, 2010) This has probably been the coldest summer I can remember in Southern California. It looks like summer is finally here though… (now that fall is right around the corner). The weather has been nice and warm for about a week straight, and it looks like most of my tomato [...]
(Original Post Date: August 13, 2010) Have you ever had an Italian Rainbow Cookie? I had them for the first time last year… and they are so good! Three layers of spongy-almond dough (in colors to mimic the Italian flag) with chocolate surrounding all sides… yum! I’ve been on a cupcake kick lately… so I thought, [...]
(Original Post Date: August 2, 2010) When I was in grad school at UCLA, there was this little Italian restaurant that I used to love to go to… Giovanni’s Trattoria. It was located in a small strip mall on Venice Blvd. and run by two brothers who were originally from Italy. Their food was always fresh, [...]
(Original Post Date: July 26, 2010) Now that summer is finally here, I can finally find the perfect tomatoes… home-grown, vine-ripened orbs of perfect sweetness. No zombie tomatoes here! What a difference in taste it makes to have real tomatoes to add to recipes. (I have to hold myself back from eating these whole tomatoes [...]
(Original Post Date: April 22, 2010) A few days ago, my friend Christina introduced me to the Cheesecake Factory’s Pasta Da Vinci. I can’t believe I’ve never tried it before! If you’ve been to the Cheesecake Factory, you know how long and overwhelming their menu is – so I guess that explains why I’ve always overlooked [...]
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