Let's be honest. Erin had a pretty fantastic birthday. Especially for all the awesome food she got. She dined on freshly rolled sushi by esteemed sushi chef, Shiro. She splurged on plenty of small plates from Black Bottle Postern. She cooked her own outstanding Indian cuisine at an entertaining cooking class at Hipcooks. And she got to sit back...

We made our first crispy-crusted pizza! Typically all of our homemade pizzas come out with thick, puffy crusts. This time we stretched the dough out super thin and cranked the temperature of our oven up. Previously, the hottest we'd ever cooked something in our oven at was 500°. This time we bumped it up to 525° and let the oven sit for about 30...

I made homemade peanut butter for the first time! The only thing better than homemade peanut butter? Homemade honey roasted peanut butter! I don't think making basic peanut butter qualifies as a recipe post because it is super easy. Toss a 16-ounce jar of peanuts with about a tablespoon of peanut oil (or a flavorless oil like canola) into a...

While the rest of our meal wasn't entirely successful, the dinner rolls I made to complement it were the complete opposite and definitely the highlight of the meal. I halved the original recipe for the two of us from Kirbie's Cravings and King Arthur Flour, and over the course of two days, Dustin and I gobbled the entire pan's worth. It may or...

It's official. I do not like green bean casserole. Until recently the only kind I'd ever had eaten used cream of mushroom soup and processed ingredients, so I thought maybe I just didn't like that version. I followed Alton Brown's recipe for the Best Ever Green Bean Casserole, with the topping slightly modified because the comments section...

Dustin has been looking forward to sharing this post for quite awhile because he wants you to see the awesome pictures he took of these really cool cupcakes. We actually made these cupcakes for a post-Halloween party with a Dexter theme— our friend actually covered his apartment with plastic wrap and set his dining room table up to look like a...

Think white chocolate macadamia nut cookies and replace the macadamia nuts with peppermint. Sound good? Well, that's exactly what these taste like! Of course, when I heard M\&M was releasing White Chocolate Peppermint M\&Ms exclusively through Target, I knew we'd have to make a trip to buy some. We hit the Christmas candy aisle pretty...

While I didn't make myself a cake for my birthday, I did make a special breakfast combining two of my absolutely favorite desserts inspired by Cake Spy and a recipe in my Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook— chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed cinnamon rolls! I really wanted to make cinnamon rolls from scratch like I did for the pumpkin pie rolls...

As I'm sure everybody knows, today is 12/12/12! Pretty cool day numerically speaking, but... Today is also my birthday! Last night we went out to a fabulous dinner at Shiro's in Seattle, the premier sushi restaurant in Seattle. This amazing sushi chef trained at an elite restaurant back in Japan. For Dustin's birthday last month, we visited...

Being the food people we are, the best part of Hanukkah is unequivocally the latkes. Obsessed and enamored with these Jewish hashbrowns, Erin and I were compelled to make our own delicious brunch meal (actually for dinner) starring latkes and corned beef (another Jewish staple). We have to tip our hats to Stopsky's Delicatessen on Mercer Island...