Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
(Original Post Date: July 13, 2010) Last week, I posted my Rustic Blueberry Tart recipe… which was inspired by rock bottom blueberry prices at the local market. If you find yourself with a surplus of blueberries, you might also try these blueberry muffins. There are perfect for breakfast, warm – right out of the oven. Use [...]
(Original Post Date: June 7, 2010) I love mangoes. But have you ever heard the phrase, “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Apparently, that was me. I was at the Asian market, and bought this huge box of mangoes. I ate about half of them within a week… but the remaining mangoes were starting [...]
(Original Post Date: May 17, 2010) Do you ever feel like eating chocolate cake for breakfast? I do. One of the things I have always noticed – in an assortment of breakfast muffins, the chocolate ones always disappear first. So I decided to try to make chocolate muffins - but not with too much sugar, to avoid this [...]
(Original Post Date: March 13, 2010) What do you do when you have a stack of zucchini in the refrigerator? Zucchini Bread, of course. My favorite recipe for Zucchini Bread is very old… a recipe I still have from my high school home economics class. I still remember the week we learned pumpkin bread, banana [...]
Original Post Date: Feb 12, 2010) When I was about 12 years old, and gaining more confidence in the kitchen, my mother decided that this would be a good time for her to quit cooking. Overnight, I became the household “dinner chef”. I enjoyed meal planning, and often accompanied my mother to the market [...]
(Original Post Date: Feb 09, 2010) Everyone always asks me for my “Pumpkin Bread” recipe. The truth is, the recipe is just average – there is nothing special about the recipe itself. Any oil-based pumpkin bread recipe will yield approximately the same results. So why does my “Pumpkin Bread” always receive such rave reviews? Secret #1 [...]
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