Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
While I love to make Western-style desserts to feed my sweet tooth… every now and then I like to mix it up and make an Asian-style dessert. This is a quick and easy Asian-style rice pudding that is lactose/dairy free, and also gluten free. It makes a great dessert for people who are lactose intolerant [...]
One of my husband’s favorite Taiwanese dishes, is “Tsao Mi Fun” (stir fried rice noodles). Everyone has their favorite version of this noodle dish (using slightly different ingredients and additions) – and his favorite happens to be the version that his sister makes. Over Christmas, my sister-in-law decided to make Tsao Mi Fun and agreed [...]
Last month, I posted a recipe for Butternut Squash Risotto that you can make with pretty much any vegetable puree. However, I also wanted to share a Basic Risotto Recipe that you can easily sub ingredients for whatever you have on hand. This version calls for Artichoke – but you can use mushrooms, sun dried [...]
Butternut squash risotto is a wonderful warm fall dish – it’s comforting and is a rich and satisfying meal for a cold fall or winter evening! If you have a lot of pumpkin puree leftover from Halloween… you can even substitute the butternut squash for pumpkin with no problem! In the produce section of the [...]
(Original Post Date: October 24, 2010) Zongzi (Chimaki in Japanese) are steamed bamboo leaf packets filled with glutinous rice and various flavorings. They can be sweet or savory – and the leaves used can also vary. If you cannot find bamboo leaves, you can use dried banana leaves from the Asian Market instead. So far, [...]
(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: 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 [...]
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