One of the things we will definitely miss about Seattle are all of Tom Douglas' wonderful restaurants. Fortunately, we have the Dahlia Bakery Cookbook to fill the void once we are in Los Angeles. Ever since I received the cookbook in the mail, I've wanted to make the tomato soup in it. When we first tried all of the Tom Douglas restaurants in...

While eating at Kerbey Lane during my visit to Texas, I ate some absolutely delicious lemon poppyseed pancakes (in addition to a lot of the famous Kerbey Queso). I love all of the different pancakes at Kerbey Lane and had a difficult time deciding which flavor to order. These ones were basically like lemon poppyseed muffins with the glaze and...

A week in Texas + a week of no grocery shopping = no recipes to blog about. It also equals several extra pounds of body fat (mostly thanks to the copious amounts of Tex-Mex we consumed while in Austin and San Antonio) we are trying to erase with lots of running and spin classes at the gym. However, as per usual, I was expected to make a dessert...

Super busy around here. We just got back from a trip to Eastern Washington wine country with our neighbors— the Tri-Cities and Walla Walla areas. The trip was an absolute blast. We came back with a lot of wine to keep the wine cabinet stocked for many, many months. We bought all sorts of wines— mostly reds, a few whites, and a decent number of...

Chilaquiles are a popular Mexican and Tex-Mex dish. They are great to make for breakfast with leftover tortillas and salsa. Well, we had just such ingredients in our fridge one morning, so we had no choice but to make them. I've always associated chilaquiles with being pretty similar to migas. I wasn't alone in my mistake because when I started...

It's been a long time since we've made a pizza, but wanting to change things up, we decided on calzones instead. All we had to do was decide on fillings. Obviously Dustin would have preferred pepperoni or sausage as the main ingredient, but trying to eat a tad healthier, I thought vegetable calzones would be a good way to incorporate some...

Momofuku can do no wrong. These cookies are delicious as is to be expected from anything that comes out of their cookbook. The flavor is a bit hard to describe. Kind of like sweet and salty buttered corn on the cob or popcorn with added sugar to turn it into dessert. I know that may sound a little weird, but it really is a flavor explosion in...

I have thought about making an olive oil cake for awhile, but turned that desire into making muffins. Basically instead of butter you use olive oil as the fat in the batter. Apparently it's fairly common practice in many Mediterranean countries. It's not something I'd do all of the time, but it was a fun experiment and made for some tasty and...

I've been wanting to try the snickerdoodle ice cream flavor (a cinnamon ice cream with actual chunks of snickerdoodle cookie in it) at Bluebird Microcreamery, a small local ice cream producer here in Seattle ever since we went there towards the end of last summer. That first time, Dustin and I were sharing ice cream. Snickerdoodle didn't really...

I was skeptical to try making my own kale chips. I've heard they are ridiculously good that parents have even gotten their leafy-green eating toddlers munching on them nonstop. With leftover kale from the cinnamon and red wine braised shortribs, I decided "why the heck not try them" since I had no other planned use for the kale. Consider me...