I made Dustin a believer in strawberry citrus salsas. We wanted a healthy, colorful dinner, and this dish really fit the bill. The salsa we created was a mixture of a handful of chopped strawberries, two small mango oranges, half an avocado, 1/4 of a large red onion, 1/2 of a seeded jalapeño, the juice of half a lime, plus liberal salt....

Here's a different kind of fried matzo for ya. Make your favorite matzo balls (here's the one we used for matzo ball soup). Heat up some canola oil to 350º and drop in the matzo balls until they are crispy and golden brown. Make a dipping sauce of sour cream, horseradish, lemon juice, and freshly ground salt and pepper. Don't measure the...

We started our use of leftover matzo by making one of Dustin's favorite treats— fried matzo. We didn't have any regular milk in the house, only vanilla almond milk, so we decided it was best to go with a sweet version of the dish. We had some overly ripe, perfectly sweet bananas sitting on the counter, a carton of juicy red strawberries in the...

In case you haven't heard the news... I am officially a Bruin. Dustin and I will be moving down to sunny Los Angeles, California later this year, so you'll have to imagine the "w" in wafoodie becoming an "l"! Choosing UCLA was probably the most difficult choice I've ever made, but now I am glad everything is finalized, and I can start getting...

Looking for a Passover friendly dessert to bring to our Easter Sunday Passover Seder, it seems the two things common for Passover that I kept coming across were flourless chocolate cake and macaroons. I chose to go with macaroons because they were super easy— at least the ones I made were super easy! I thought about dipping or drizzling them...

For Easter brunch we got up Sunday morning and made a delicious savory french toast. Erin's always been a big biscuits and gravy fan, so we made a chicken sausage and maple sage gravy (a la Skillet) to top some griddled brioche bread from Macrina— the perfect blend of sweet and savory flavors. To make the gravy, we made a roux by melting...

Happy Easter (and Passover)! Today we are celebrating Easter with a fancy brunch and mimosas. Tonight we are celebrating Passover with our Rice friends in Seattle by having a Seder meal. It's also Opening Day for baseball, and we had a busy day running around doing touristy things in Seattle with our friends yesterday before they left town....

Our eating schedule has been thrown off a little again this week, as my good friend from high school and her boyfriend were in town checking out UW for grad school. My friend has a dairy allergy, so she can't eat anything with cow's milk, cheese, butter, etc. Basically her diet can be described as vegan plus meat. Given Seattle's hipster...

Our steamed bacon bun dinner the other night was definitely not kosher for Passover, but we made up for it with homemade matzo ball soup. Apparently the secret to light and fluffy matzo balls is to use club soda or sparkling water, so we used that little trick. We also used homemade matzo meal instead of buying it— just 5 pieces of matzo ground...

It's officially Spring, and Easter will be here in only a few days, and Easter means bunnies, which means carrots! Spring is the perfect time to make carrot cake, so I set out to make my own perfect version. I was mostly successful. Taste-wise the carrot cake rocked, but unfortunately I didn't bake it quite long enough (even though I did...