This meal is by far one of the easiest and most recent dinner favorites. It's really not as much of a recipe, but a great and simple idea you are sure to enjoy. I'm not sure why I never thought of using hummus as a pasta sauce sooner, but it is really amazingly good. Just toss some cooked and drained linguine or spaghetti with your favorite...

I've never really gotten behind Hawaiian pizza. That much pineapple on a pizza just seems like it would be too sweet, even for someone like me. But the idea of marinating pork in pineapple is something I was totally on board with. This grilled pork tenderloin came out better than we expected. This meal (along with some Copper River salmon) was a...

Mayonnaise may sound like a strange ingredient to add into a cake, but if you really think about it, it's not. Mayonnaise is simple egg yolks and oil (with maybe a little bit of vinegar or lemon juice thrown in there), ingredients we already use to keep cake moist. Apparently this is a trick that Portillo's in Chicago uses in it's famous...

This ice cream is so simple, yet has quickly become one of our favorites. The idea behind this ice cream was to make cookies 'n' cream ice cream but in reverse, so using chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla ice cream and Golden Oreos instead of traditional chocolate ones. We can't quite place our finger on what makes this ice cream so much...

I was highly considering making some "traditional" dessert-like oatmeal cookies with blueberries and chocolate chips, but then decided to make them a little healthier so they could be deemed oatmeal breakfast cookies. With Dustin as my sous chef, late one night we whipped these up together in under half an hour just throwing ingredients...

I first had red beans and rice at a party back in Seattle. Immediately afterwards, I begged Erin to make red beans and rice for me. Years later, I had to finally give in and make it myself :) This creole dish is so tasty and flavorful, you can't help but have multiple bowls. We followed a recipe from the kitchn. It made me feel legitimate by...

It's almost "officially" summer! Ice cream is perfect summer dessert, but since that's tough to bring to a party where everything has to sit out, I tried to think of another dessert that would capture the essence of summer. Then I remembered seeing kettle corn cookies at Trader Joe's, and thought sweet and salty kettle corn would be an awesome...

Now that the ducks have been officially cooked, I wanted to look back on another one of our duck hockey feasts. We landed on duck reubens in our search for a creative duck meal. Considering we absolutely fawn over traditional reubens, swapping corned beef for duck could only lead to good results. We placed seared duck breast, sauerkraut, swiss...

Even though I don't care for beer, I still enjoy going to craft breweries as a fun place to chill out with Dustin while he samples a variety of brews. This past weekend, we stopped by Angel City Brewery downtown, and while I admit I had a great time and can't wait to back with Dustin (and the puppies), going to Angel City was just an excuse for...

Horchata is one of my favorite things ever to drink thanks to its cinnamon flavor. Reading this blog post on horchata, I found a recipe to make an authentic horchata and learned some new facts about this sweet drink in the process. For example even though the drink tastes like it is made with dairy (some non-authentic versions you can get...