We had a potluck style lab party (and super competitive trivia competition) with all of our undergraduate RAs to celebrate the end of the quarter yesterday. Naturally I brought dessert. The base of these cookies are the same as your standard white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, except I swapped the nuts for dried cranberries for…

This may not be the most the most creative use of Thanksgiving leftovers— paninis are no cranchiladas that’s for sure. But I’m sensing a new Thanksgiving tradition because this has got be one of the best paninis we’ve made, which I think makes it deserving of its own writeup. I think the key ingredient is the brie—…

As previously mentioned we celebrated our feast a little later, and since Thanksgiving was so late in the season, this post is arriving to you in December. Nonetheless, we just wanted to show you our dinner and proclaim to the world how grateful we are for everything in our lives— the food in our bellies,…

I can’t decide whether I like this apple pie or the Southern Comfort apple pie from the summer of 2012 better. I guess what is really clear here is that both contained alcohol, and both were outstanding variations of this classic fruit pie. As with the SoCo pie, the liquor cooks off and just leave…

This cheesecake it the epitome of Thanksgiving desserts. It’s basically all of your favorite Turkey Day (dessert) flavors rolled into one— a gingersnap-pecan crust, pumpkin white chocolate cream cheese filing, topped with sugared cranberries. If you aren’t a big fan of cranberries then those can be omitted (and maybe replaced with cinnamon or honey pecans,…

Consider yourself lucky. You were alive for a Hanukkah + Thanksgiving day! It won’t happen again for almost 80,000 years. And to celebrate this once in in a lifetime day, we cooked up to-die-for latke burgers. Unfortunately, for the orthodox, this won’t be allowed, but if you like gooey cheese on your hamburger sandwiched between…

I bet you can guess what Dustin’s initial reaction to this dish was. “Pumpkin?” again. But just to be fair this pumpkin dish didn’t have any cinnamon or ginger, but rather was spiced up with lots and lots of curry powder. We didn’t have super high expectations from this dish, but we were absolutely blown…

One of Dustin’s friends and co-workers from Microsoft is originally from the LA area and was in town over the weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday. We spent Sunday evening with him and a few of his friends at ink. in West Hollywood (another from the top 101 of LA list). ink. is a gastropub with…

I purchased my annual bottle of molasses recently, deciding now that it is officially appropriate to wear a (light) jacket here in LA (and exactly one month from Christmas as of today), it was time to make molasses cookies. Easier than rolling out gingerbread men, I still get my molasses/ginger/cinnamon fix. I really wanted to…