During our trip to the Northwest Chocolate Festival last September, we sat in on a tutorial on how to make salted caramel sauce. I had some cream in the fridge with no other planned purpose, just waiting to expire. With Valentine's Day coming up next week, I figured I could come up with a special dessert to incorporate caramel sauce into. Sounds...

Our apartment smelled so freaking good yesterday. For hours and hours. Because of this challah recipe from Smitten Kitchen via Joe Nathan. I really think it might compete for the best challah. The texture was exactly like what I'd expect from a bakery-bought loaf— but waaaay bigger. This was one enormous loaf of bread. Slightly sweet Jewish...

Without a doubt, whenever we eat at our staple Indian restaurant we order samosas. We almost always get chicken tikka masala as well, but sometimes we change it up and get butter chicken. However, samosas (and naan) are always on the must order list. When it comes to making dinners at home, we are really creative and experimental, but when it...

Hit #1 from our Super Bowl party appetizers. At the party we went to, everyone was asked to bring an appetizer to watch the big game. Normally I'd bring dessert, but a long standing and fattening tradition at the Super Bowl party we went to is Super Bowl Sundaes. Literally there were 5 kinds of ice cream, numerous toppings from candy and...

Last weekend we went to a Microsoft holiday party (a month after the holiday, but a holiday party nonetheless). I still haven't figured out how Microsoft (or at least Dustin's area of the company) throws a party. This year's theme was a masquerade ball. In theory it was fun, but the execution was not the greatest. Someone dressed as Buddy the...

We've been on an Indian kick lately. Here we're making Butter Chicken. We also will post about our Samosas soon. And a Curried Chicken Salad is also in the pipeline. Today's dish is a wonderful Indian staple with beautiful spices, delectable chicken, and a wonderful sauce to spoon up your rice or naan with. I followed a recipe for Butter Chicken...

I've got a serious mushroom problem. See, the wife is obsessed with them. And me, I'm kind of off and on with mushrooms. I like my chanterelles and prosciutto on pizza, but I detest those typical raw mushrooms in salads. I'm starting to think that it's not that I dislike mushrooms, but that I dislike cheap and crappy mushrooms. Regardless of my...

We have absolutely fallen in love with Indian food after living in Seattle. Dustin even took me to an Indian cooking class for a birthday present in December. Now we've decided to experiment with Indian cooking at home. We stocked up on all of the spices, and boy, do they make the apartment smell wonderful. I think I could sprinkle garam masala...

Actually this is Maple Cinnamon Cashew Macadamia Nut Butter, but that title was just a tad too long. And it's mostly cashew butter. The texture of this nut butter is quite different from your standard peanut butter. It's almost chalkier, if that makes any sense, and doesn't spread quite as easy (at least not after it's been in the fridge)....

These are probably better to share in the summer when you have barbecue cookouts to go to or whatever. That's actually when these were made, but I just found my (crappy) picture and recipe on my computer and realized I forgot to post them. Oops. But baked beans taste good any time of year. Add bacon and bourbon and these legumes are a side dish...