Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
(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: May 12, 2010) I still have several bottles of beer leftover from the time I made Beer Bread that are taking up valuable pantry real estate. What do I do with all this extra beer? (There are only so many times I can make beer bread without my husband complaining he’s eaten it [...]
(Original Post Date: April 27, 2010) One of my most favorite lemon recipes (besides the Extra Tart Lemon Bar Recipe I posted previously), is this Rustic Lemon Cake made with cornmeal. The cornmeal gives the cake a slightly “rougher” texture, which goes nicely with the tart sugary glaze. The combination of the lemon sugar glaze (which [...]
(Original Post Date: April 22, 2010) A few days ago, my friend Christina introduced me to the Cheesecake Factory’s Pasta Da Vinci. I can’t believe I’ve never tried it before! If you’ve been to the Cheesecake Factory, you know how long and overwhelming their menu is – so I guess that explains why I’ve always overlooked [...]
(Original Post Date: March 31, 2010) Whether we are talking about American Southern fried chicken, Japanese Chicken Katsu, Austrian Chicken Schnitzel, Italian Chicken Milanese (to name a few)… pretty much every country has a national recipe for “fried chicken”. Taiwanese style fried chicken may not be as familiar to most people as Schnitzel or Katsu – but it is [...]
(Original Post Date: March 23, 2010) There are several food blogs that I love to read. On one site, I found an interesting looking recipe for Chocolate Matcha Bundt Cake. What is Matcha? Well, it’s a very strong powdered form of green tea, traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies. Prepared in that manner, it is rather bitter, [...]
Recent Comments