A few weeks back the Texans were the Sunday evening game (I don't want to to even talk about what a disaster this season has been because I'm totally in denial), and I wanted to do a dinner version of chicken and waffles with a twist (though I still would like to do a traditional brunch version). Instead of buttermilk waffles, we made potato...

This recipe is a testament to frugality with all of the ingredients because it comes from things we typically have in the pantry or what we had lingering around, leftover from other dishes. Gorgonzola from the buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese and an open half-used can of pumpkin in the fridge from the biscotti (although I pretty much have a...

We had an amazing kale salad at The Hart and the Hunter, and when cooked properly, I firmly believe there is no better base to a salad than kale (plus cheesy kale chips are delicious). If not cooked properly kale can be a nasty wet mess, but tossed with olive oil and baked until crispy, kale doesn't nearly resemble the vegetable you might...

In keeping with our recent obsession of buffalo wings and blue cheese, here is a fun variation that incorporates those delicious flavors into a macaroni and cheese. As you might expect from anything titled macaroni and cheese, it was delicious— perfect for an evening of watching Monday Night Football after a long day of school. We poached and...

I've mostly been on a waffle kick lately, so I think it's time that pancakes received some love and attention. Pumpkins have also been getting a lot of press around here, so I instead went with the other quintessential flavor of fall, apples. Lately, lazy weekend mornings have become our thing. After busy weeks, it's nice to sleep in until 9,...

We ended up buying Halloween candy this year and not passing a single piece out. Trick or treaters in our apartment were only supposed to knock on doors with a special sign that we didn't take the time to go get (mostly because we didn't  know about it until right before Halloween eve). Instead, Dustin and I went out for amazing hamburgers at...

One of the labs on campus has a full kitchen in their workspace. Back in the 1970's, the workspace was an apartment  where researchers used to conduct experiments during which they'd watch people in a "natural habitat," so to speak. Now those kind of experiments don't really get done anymore in psychology, so the lab space was passed on, leaving...

Before Dustin left for one of his trips back to San Antonio, he specifically told me not to eat all of his Frank's. He literally eats Frank's hot sauce all of the time now. Last week at the grocery store, he bought tortilla chips with no salsa, but instead said he would eat them with Frank's. Now I enjoy the flavors of hot wings (as evidenced...

Not to be confused with spaghetti squash, this is legit homemade spaghetti with a thick and creamy butternut squash sauce coating each strand. We were browsing a specialty food mart when I saw a butternut squash pasta sauce sitting on the shelf. I was tempted to buy it, but why buy something like that (at a ridiculously high premium, I might...

For another installment of easy dinners on days you want to put zero effort into making food, may I present to you orange chicken tacos! I feel like all of my food inspiration these days either involves pumpkin or combining two different cuisines like Asian and Mexican in this case. Trader Joe's makes some great frozen orange chicken that I...