Baked brie is one my favorite appetizers at a party, so it's a little hard to believe we haven't made it until now. Despite wanting to make it, I've never actually been able to locate puff pastry when I was searching it out. Until now at Trader Joe's. We decided to put together a little meat and cheese board for the two of us with a baked...

Christmas may be over, but it's still the holiday season, so I think this cranberry orange bread is still seasonally appropriate. We ate it several mornings before Christmas and definitely reminds me of some breakfast treat you might buy at Starbucks. By the way, it tastes better on day 2 after the flavors can meld. This bread is moist and...

I wanted the nostalgia of sausage balls this holiday season, but I didn't want plain sausage balls. I've had a couple of weeks off before I get crazy busy again, and I wanted to put this time to good use, baking new things. These sausage and cheese biscuits taste a lot like the real deal sausage balls, and they even look similar, just much,...

We put Dustin's boozy eggnog to good use on Christmas morning by making gingerbread eggnog cinnamon rolls! Yes, there is eggnog in both the dough and the frosting, and the filling of the cinnamon rolls has molasses and ground ginger in addition to butter, brown sugar, and lots of cinnamon! They ended up not being the prettiest cinnamon rolls...

We had a very merry Christmas here in 70+ degree LA weather. We exchanged gifts (with most of them going to Bonnie). We ate well. And we drank boozy eggnog. We followed this recipe (minus the malt and chocolate bitters) for our Christmas Nog, and I couldn't be happier. Erin thought it was a tad too boozy, but we both agreed the home spiced...

What a delicious Christmas Eve dinner. We stuffed a succulent pork tenderloin with pistachio, gorgonzola, thyme, and shallots. It's finished over a raspberry sauce and beside beer goat cheese grits. It was truly stellar, and Erin said it was restaurant-like. Although this was pretty rock solid, I would make two adjustments: use less filling,...

We are starting on our New Year's resolutions early this year— we've picked up running again (side note— it was over 70 degrees and almost too hot to run yesterday) and are working on healthier eating (with liberal amounts of desserts still worked in). The first step towards better eating was this triple-P salad for dinner. It's perfect for...

In addition to the Oreo truffles, I wanted to make my signature sugar cookie. But rolling out cookies kind of seemed like a pain in the butt I didn't feel like dealing with. So basically I dumped sugar cookie dough into 13"x9" pan and baked them. It worked out nicely. I expected these to be more like the texture of a Lofthouse cookie and with...

My mom asked to me to make some holiday desserts for my dad to take into his office while I was visiting. Happy to oblige when it comes to making dessert, I wanted fairly easy desserts since I'm not as comfortable baking outside of my comfort zone in a new kitchen and without my standard equipment. I know Oreo truffles are a popular dessert...

Greetings from somewhere over the United States! As I am writing this, we are on our way home from a trip  to Indiana to visit my parents for an early Christmas. Our trip included an in-person viewing of a disappointing Texans loss, a visit with a good friend from high school, and ended in Evansville for a few days in the cold (with Kentucky...