Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
It is currently week two of San Diego Restaurant week. During week one, we had dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Del Mar and were served an amazing creamed spinach casserole as a side dish, and I thought this would be a great new way to prepare spinach – something different from the spinach sauteed [...]
There is such a thing as having too much zucchini, apparently. After a particular grocery store trip (where I purchased zucchini), I came home to find that not only was there already zucchini in the refrigerator (oops), but that a friend had also dropped off some baseball bat sized home grown zucchini! Now, there are [...]
(Original Post Date: November 13, 2010) Sometimes I just can’t make up my mind. Did I feel like making Quiche Lorraine? or Quiche Florentine? Quiche Lorraine commonly calls for bacon, cheese, and onions. Quiche Florentine on the other hand, usually calls for spinach and cheese. Hmmm. Why not combine them and use all those ingredients [...]
(Original Post Date: November 02, 2010) Last year, our neighborhood didn’t do much for Halloween – with the exception of this one house down the street that went nuts with the lights and spooky decor. This year, (not to be outdone by that one house again) every house in the neighborhood stepped it up, and [...]
(Original Post Date: October 31, 2010) Halloween has always been my favorite holiday of the year… free candy, spooky decor, horror movies – what’s not to love? This year I decided to carve a trio of Jack-O’-Lantern’s from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. From left to right, we have: 1. The Pumpkin King, 2. Oogie [...]
(Original Post Date: March 8, 2010) So I was at Trader Joe’s the other day, and right now they have these big cartons of heirloom tomatoes (about $5 per large carton). You know, those imperfectly shaped, oddly striped, green/yellow/red tomatoes that you only ever see in a garden, but never at the actual market? (They [...]
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