I stumbled upon a recipe for waffles using champagne in the batter around New Year's Eve as a way to use up leftover champagne from an evening of celebration. We weren't planning on eating breakfast on New Year's Day, as we didn't plan on getting up until afternoon, and even then we didn't plan on cooking. I decided maybe this would be a fun...

As many things as I have mastered over the last year and a half of perfecting my baking, one seemingly simple thing that has managed to elude me is streusel topping. I have tried multiple different recipes with different ingredient ratios and butter temperature all over the map from right-out-of-the-fridge cold to just short of melted. But no...

Dustin and I have very different opinions on sweet potatoes. I love the sweet starch, and consuming something orange makes me feel a little bit better about myself and my vegetable eating habits. For Dustin, I know that sweet potatoes are just a sad excuse imitating a regular potato. The other night while on a cold evening walk, we had a lengthy...

Sorry if you accidentally read this yesterday morning. Scheduling error :) I without a doubt have married the sweetest boy in the world. This meal had to be made on a certain day, the day I bought the mussels, to ensure their freshness and quality, but by the time dinner came rolling around I really did not feel like cooking at all. I had gone...

Erin typically does the cooking, but every once in awhile, I force her to let me cook. Usually, that means me grilling up a steak. However, I convinced her to give up her culinary duties one morning and let me griddle up some pancakes. I was really feeling chocolate pancakes, and I wanted to throw a seasonal twist into it, so chocolate...

Compost cookies might not sound like an appealing name, but neither were the other options: "garbage cookies" or "kitchen sink cookies." Promise me when I say these cookies are delicious despite the name, with a little bit of everything you can think of in a cookie recipe (minus the kitchen sink). Basically the idea for this cookie started as...

Many moons ago when I first bought and flipped through Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream cookbook, I remember seeing a recipe for blood orange sorbet. The description of the sorbet described the flavor as "amazing" and "bright" to "have kicking around \[your] mouth in cold, wet January." Well I remembered those words. Now it's mid-January and cold...

We've made beef fajitas in the past, but we've yet to try recreate one of our often-weekly occurrences back home, Pappasito's chicken fajitas. Until now. Yes, this entire spread of food was just for the two of us, but when you do fajitas you have to go all out. We had chips and guacamole, salsa, refried beans, tortillas, garlic butter, Jack...

Hazelnuts make me think of winter, so when we were making homemade pasta during the winer months, I think this goat cheese and hazelnut pesto pasta is the perfect sauce/topping for a cold night. To give the dish some spice, we made our own chili-infused olive oil to add to the top by cooking a few sliced serrano peppers and sliced jalapeños in...

There's a food cart (and now diner) here in Seattle you might have heard us rave about in the past called Skillet that serves up upscale versions of breakfast diner foods as well as fancy chicken sandwiches and burgers. Plus it was through Skillet's street cart that we were first introduced to poutine and have subsequently made it ourselves from...