Quick Dinner Inspirations for the Spicy Food Enthusiast
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Try My Most Popular Recipe Air Fryer Branzino with Lemon Potatoes and Vegetables
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This is a 36-page e-cookbook with 25 easy spicy chicken dinner recipes. The cookbook includes tips for best cooking practices, tips on adjusting chili spice levels, and quick recipe conversion calculations. The recipes include air fryers, one-pot meals, soups, chilis, baked dishes, sheet-pan meals, and stir-fries.
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About Me and Just Maika Cooking
This blog is created to transform your kitchen into a culinary sanctuary where sophistication and passion meet practicality. Discover a treasure trove of spicy world cuisine-inspired recipes, each detailed with step-by-step instructions to ensure you can replicate professional dishes in your own space with Maika, your culinary coach, as your guide.
Learn where to find the best ingredients and how to wield culinary techniques to elevate your cooking. Just Maika Cooking caters to your taste and any dietary needs you might have, offering adaptations for various restrictions to guarantee a delightful meal for every plate.
Experience the joy of cooking through the cultural tales behind dishes, the personal touches that make each recipe unique, and expert advice on utilizing kitchen tools effectively. Whether you’re decoding intricate dishes or seeking the perfect product reviews, this blog is your go-to guide, complete with visual and textual narratives that bring the aromatic attraction and vibrant visuals of gourmet cooking to life.
I'm Maika, a culinary professional with over ten years of experience in some of the world's most esteemed hotels, including PGA National Resort, The Ritz-Carlton, Conrad Hilton, and W Hotel. My passion for cooking extends beyond the professional level; it is evident in every blog post I write.
Here, I explore a panorama of flavors, crafting recipes that bring the sophistication of restaurant dining into your home with quick, easy, and spicy meals designed to dazzle your palate. Life has always been a balancing act for me—between a full-time career, furthering my education, raising my son, and nurturing a side blog.
I understand the challenge of limited time, yet I believe in making room for enjoying exquisite, gourmet experiences at your own table. Join me as we delve into the art of fine cooking made simple, turning every dinner into a special occasion.
I have created this blog to share my passion for quick and easy recipes inspired by different cultures around the world. I love exploring various foods by traveling and experimenting with different flavors to add my twist of heat. There's nothing more satisfying than tasting a dish that's rich in culture, history, and the people who make it. As always, I hope you enjoy your experience at Just Maika Cooking!
I enjoy experimenting with dishes from different cultures. Before cooking them, I research to ensure I understand the process and ingredients involved. If I'm unable to do this, I find a place that makes the dish authentically.
Once I'm in the kitchen, I use my imagination to make creative changes to the recipe by incorporating techniques from other recipes with similar ingredients. For this reason, I often name the dish by its main ingredients rather than its actual name. This allows me to be more creative without worrying about missing ingredients or cooking styles.
As a result, the dishes on my blog are not authentic, as my intention is not to create original dishes but rather to experiment with them. I hope you enjoy my version, and I would love to hear about any changes you made when you cook it. I always explore, experiment, and taste, and I enjoy hearing about other cooks' versions of a dish.
Through trial and error. My home kitchen is my test kitchen, where recipes are made repeatedly before being posted for my very opinionated loved ones to critique—oh boy, can they critique! The pressure is intense! Follow me @JustMaikaCooking on Instagram, where I will post my developed recipes.
I formally had a personal food blog called "Journey of a Foodie Fool" on Blogger in 2006 to share photos of my travel with family and friends. I enjoyed sharing my day-to-day cooking, both in the professional kitchen and at home. Then, I stopped working professionally as a cook to be a teacher to take care of my son with autism and started using my blog to save recipes that were created at home digitally. Now my son is older, I decided to revamp my blog, take it more seriously, and now share it with everyone outside my circle as Just Maika Cooking.
Ever since I was a child, I dreamed of working in the kitchen as a culinary chef and carrying on the legacy of my Haitian grandmother, Gisele. I wanted to create dishes that people would never forget and eagerly anticipate the next meal, just like my grandmother. I had the opportunity to pursue my dream by using my creativity to please other people's palates professionally years ago. Now, I work as a recipe developer and culinary coach.
Thank you for your incredible support and for being a part of my journey. Through this blog's creative content, recipes, videos, and food photography, I aim to provide an exceptional experience. Your involvement helps it flourish!
This website is lovingly dedicated to my grandmother, Gisele Corvoisier, who was a Haitian immigrant, the heart of our family, and a pillar in the Little Haiti community of Miami.
-Maika