Dustin's been complaining that I've dropped the ball with cooking and baking lately. It's true. With our trip to Texas and my trip to Toronto and then being completely overwhelmed playing catch-up (and thus eating lots of take-out and Trader Joe's), I haven't really been in the kitchen for two weeks. But I made it up to him this weekend with...

When Erin heard I made these while she was away, she demanded I make them for her, even before I wrote up a post on them. They are parmesan crisps, and they are spectacular. It's stupidly easy to make too. For breakfast over the weekend, I wanted to make some delicious eggs. Erin had been running low on Wafoodie posts, so I knew I had to put...

While the lady is away, Bo and her daddy play. I needed to feed myself too, so I got to head to Whole Foods by myself (something that rarely happens). Since I was only feeding one, I ended up making two pretty similar meals back to back. Here you can see Dustin the solo cook in full swing. Easy, simple, but still pretty delicious. Rustic...

Our "dating" anniversary was coming around, and I usually cook up something special for Erin. I'm not the most creative cook out there (like the lady), so I fell back on one of my staples— a creamy pasta. But this time around, I threw in an autumn twist I knew she would love. Pumpkin! Seriously, this girl is wacko insane for pumpkin....

While I'm obsessed with delicious things like pancakes for breakfast, Dustin loves his potatoes. I thought making this potato galette from Cook's Illustrated would be the perfect brunch for his birthday weekend. Long story short, as what seems to be happening more and more lately, the galette making got pushed off a couple of weeks. But the...

Perfect fried chicken. It's the holy grail of any chef. Fried chicken should be perfectly light and crispy, a crust that's not too thick, but hearty, and it cannot be greasy. The critical factor, though, is the brine. Perfect fried chicken should be most tasty from the inside. I wouldn't have thought that this step was so important, but don't...

I'd been craving a carb loaded baked potato recently, and given the (slightly) cooler days of fall, baked potato soup (with all of the fixins) seemed in order. We went to the farmer's market and got all of the ingredients; however the actual making of the soup kept getting postponed in favor of eating out or other faster meals. Finally, we got...

This French toast was supposed to be a reward to myself for running 8 miles in preparation for my half marathon. Instead it ended up being a reward for spending pretty much the entire day working on statistics homework. Welcome to graduate school life. I swear I was doing everything correctly, yet for some reason my answer to one question (that...

Cupcakes were supposed to solve the whole "I don't want to make a whole cake because I will eat it whole, so I'll just have an individual sized dessert instead" problem. Except that when you make a batch of cupcakes you still end up with at least a dozen. And if you try to bake a single cupcake in a full sized tin and leave the other 11 empty,...

Lately macaroni and cheese fusion meals have been on mind (the buffalo chicken mac 'n'cheese being the most recent). Today's version of this classic American comfort dish takes on the flavors of barbecue sauce and sharp, smoky cheese. The sweet, spicy, and smoky all blend together for the perfect meal after a long day at work or a stressful...