There's a restaurant called Vij's in Vancouver that is super famous for creative, high-class Indian food; it has been called the best Indian food in North America. We wanted to go on our trip, but they don't take reservations. It's apparently so good that people will drive all the way from Seattle just to eat there, then turn around and go home....

While at Trader Joe's not too long ago, I impulsively grabbed a bag of frozen berries because the bag included cherries in the mix, not your normal fare in a bag of mixed frozen berries. I figured I'd probably use the frozen fruit in some smoothies for lunch, but then I decided to whip up some muffins I saw in the Macrina cookbook Dustin bought...

These beer glazed fish tacos were the inspiration for this healthy fish taco dish. We obviously couldn't use a local Texas beer, so we improvised with what we could find— a mango beer that we thought would go well with a citrus salsa. For a side, we ate sweet potato chips and Trader Joe's Reduced Guilt chunky guacamole, which is made with Greek...

We do the majority of our grocery shopping at Whole Foods because their produce and and meat are superior, but occasionally on our walks with Bonnie to the park, we'll stop by Safeway for non-perishables and to grab an extra ingredient or two we might have added to our grocery list or forgotten. It's also the place where I occasionally impulse...

Last time we went to the grocery store, Whole Foods had some fantastic looking tuna steaks. All of our meals for the week were already planned out, so I made a mental note that we'd have to do tuna steaks of some sort next time. I thought a sushi-inspired, seared tuna encrusted with sesame seeds sounded like the perfect dinner to enjoy on our...

Watching Worst Cooks this season, we saw one of the contestants make ravioli with egg yolks in the middle, so that when you cut into your pasta, you get a nice runny egg oozing out over everything. Looked like our perfect pasta dish! And despite it looking difficult to make (egg yolks can break way too easily), we were convinced that if a...

Watching this past season of Top Chef, we were intrigued by Josh Valentine's scrambled scallops dish. It seemed kind of weird, but got us talking about the texture of scallops (fully intact) and how they would go really well with scrambled eggs. So we didn't set out to recreate his dish, but it served as an inspirational jumping off point for...

I thought about making chocolate chip bagels, but chocolate chips bagels are a little plain. So instead I replaced the chocolate chips with Oreos to add a little pizzazz to the bagels. Even though the cream from the Oreos is included in the bagels, you really don't taste it much, so I guess the cream cheese you put on top counts as the cream...

A couple of weekends ago, we hosted a gnocchi party with our Rice friends. A failed attempt at making smoothly textured gnocchi at a previous Italian-themed dinner party necessitated a redo. We now own a ricer, which makes the process of smashing the potatoes much easier and makes the final product more uniform. We wanted a simple sauce, so...

We are officially having a week of summer weather in Seattle! Over the weekend we hit up a park with our neighbors for a little picnic and dog play time. These peanut butter and jelly bars seemed like the perfect, classic and nostalgic all-American dessert for a warm weather outing— all of the flavors of the kiddie sandwich but elevated for a...