Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
Here’s an easy weeknight dinner idea – a one pot recipe for chicken drumsticks or thighs. For appetizers, this recipe also works well with chicken wings or drumettes. You could substitute with chicken breast for a leaner meal – but I like using dark meat for the best flavor (and because dark meat doesn’t dry [...]
If you have ever been to a Hawaiian luau, one of the main attractions is the preparation/serving of “Kālua pig” – a whole pig that is roasted using the “Kālua” method. Kālua is a traditional cooking method in Hawaiian cuisine that uses a specially prepared underground oven, called an “imu“. To make an “imu“, a large [...]
Bolognese is a meat based pasta sauce that originates from Bologna, Italy. In Italy, this sauce is often served with large flat noodles like tagliatelle, pappardelle, or fettuccine… or with tube shapes like rigatoni or penne. Here in the U.S., “Bolognese” brings to mind a tomato sauce with crumbled ground beef, sometimes with mushrooms, served [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year I made a big humongous 22 pound turkey… and even after giving away leftovers for family to take home, I still had a ton of leftover meat. Yesterday, we ate Thanksgiving 2.0 for lunch, and today we had Thanksgiving 3.0. I don’t want to eat Thanksgiving [...]
Happy Halloween! Earlier this week, I posted a recipe for Pumpkin Cornbread – a slightly sweet cornbread that you can make with leftover pumpkin puree. Today, I’m posting a recipe for Pumpkin and Chicken Chili – another way to use leftover pumpkin – which goes really well as a main dish with the pumpkin cornbread. [...]
Chicken Cacciatore, or “hunter’s style chicken,” is an Italian meal of meat (such as chicken) braised in a stew of tomatoes, onions, garlic, and red wine. It often contains other ingredients, such as bell peppers, mushrooms, or black olives. In my version, I prefer to use mushrooms – but if you don’t like mushrooms, you [...]
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