Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
This New Year’s Eve, we decided to stay home and be lazy (like we do every year)! To make our home celebration more special, I decided to make martinis inspired by a recent trip we took to Maui. In Wailea, we had dinner one night at the Monkeypod Kitchen – a fantastic restaurant that specializes [...]
I love pickles…. especially the salty and sour kind! Kosher dill pickles, cornichons, giardineira, Japanese umeboshi… they’re all good. If you like pickles too, they are quite easy to make – simple refrigerator pickles can be made to taste (you can make them with all kinds of flavors and spices… whatever you like), and are [...]
Last week, some friends gave us a bag of guavas from their backyard tree. The guavas were perfectly ripe, and very fragrant… Great timing, as I was planning to make some fall jams and jellies to give away during the holidays! While some guava jam recipes don’t call for added pectin… I think it’s a [...]
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 [...]
Lately, I’ve been trying my hand at making different cocktails and types of martinis. While I was browsing the Grey Goose website for recipes, I saw an intriguing recipe for making peartinis. It called for the addition of pear-flavored vodka, which I didn’t have… but I did have pears, and also plenty of plain vodka! [...]
One of my most favorite cocktails is Roy Yamaguchi’s Hawaiian Martini (from Roy’s, a popular upscale Hawaiian fusion restaurant). It’s a potent cocktail, and at about $12 per glass… somewhat pricey… but considering how good (and strong) it is – you usually only need one! Roy’s is one of my favorite restaurants down in La [...]
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