Scallops are by far one of our favorite proteins. If you're talking raw food, I think it tops Erin's list. We'd wanted to make a nice pasta dish with scallops, and Erin found this adventurous recipe. You know she had me convinced with this recipe when she said it had bourbon in it. Jalapeños and cream sure didn't hurt. We both agreed that the...

I'm not sure where the idea for this dish came from, but it has been fermenting in my head for awhile. In promising to eat better this upcoming year, we came up with this really colorful and healthy meal. We bought some beautiful buttery scallops from a vendor at the farmer's market along with a bunch of fresh produce and this colorful,...

What I learned living as a bachelorette for 10 days. (1) The house stays a lot cleaner when only one person is living in it, and the trash and dishes are much more manageable. Surprise, surprise. (2) More importantly, if left to my own devices, I would probably live solely off desserts and breakfast food. I ate way too much ice cream, granola...

Happy Labor Day! We're slowly, but surely getting settled into our new place in Los Angeles. However now it is time to reminisce about our time in Seattle again... I previously referenced that we hosted a big party with our Seattle friends before we left. We kept calling it a fish bake (thinking along the lines of a New England clambake), but...

We really like truffle oil. Like a lot. Unfortunately, truffle oil is crazy expensive. We spent $14 on a tiny bottle according to the price sticker remaining on the bottle. We still had half a bottle to use up before the move, so on a whim I added it to the crab macaroni and cheese I was making. We were already going fancy using Dungeness crab,...

I've been using a lot of coconut products lately, from shredded coconut in breading to coconut oil in cookies to coconut milk in risotto, and now coconut cream as the broth in which to steam mussels. I thought a rich coconut milk along with Asian flavors like spicy sriacha and ginger would be the perfect thing in which to steam a large batch of...

I'm not too worried about being able to find good sushi in Los Angeles. It may not be Shiro's, and it may not be cheap, but we will find good sushi in our new city. However, I think being able to make our own sushi might become a thing of the past (at least raw sushi). I have no idea how easy it will be to find sushi-grade fish in our grocery...

Before I met Dustin if you'd have told me that I'd like oysters, even fried ones, I would have looked at you like you were a crazy person. I think that just goes to show that with a willingness to try new foods, your palette will grow, and you will learn to like love things you'd never have thought possible. Oysters are definitely one such thing...

Although we haven't been doing quite as well as we have hoped in our quest to eat healthier dinners, we haven't been complete failures either. One of the delicious, but healthy meals to come out of our kitchen recently was these shrimp cakes, made in a manner similar to the salmon burgers of yesterday. Don't be alarmed by their green color—...

Salmon burgers were a regular part of our repertoire back at Rice, but we just bought pre-made ones from Whole Foods. Now that we pretty much live in the salmon capital of the world, I can't believe we haven't yet tried to make our own. Since we are moving in less than a month and we are getting some great looking salmon for very reasonable...