It's been awhile since I've experimented with unique pestos, so in order to create a super easy dinner, we made a feta-pistachio with mint and spinach pesto to serve over pasta with a blend of green and black olives. I didn't keep exact ratios of what we put in, but instead just kept throwing in handfuls of this and that until I thought it...

After a particularly long day of meetings accompanied by stress, I had a lot I needed to do when I got home. But the only thing I wanted to do was make powdered donut holes, like the crazy processed ones I used to eat as a kid. Stress baking at its best. These donut holes are super fast and super easy when you just need some comfort after a bad...

While not as impressive (or quite as much work) as the awesome Momofuku birthday cake, I wanted to have a cake in the fridge to pull out when Dustin's parents arrived as a belated birthday present. My mom sent me some bake even strips awhile back that I had completely forgotten about, and now I finally had the chance to use them. I will never...

Perfect for football season, these baked zucchini crusted buffalo chicken fingers are a good way to get a little extra veggies in without realizing you are actually eating vegetables. You can't taste the zucchini beneath a healthy layer of Frank's hot sauce. Dustin commented that there couldn't be very much zucchini in there, but there are...

Sorry for a summery recipe when we are in the heart of September, but when peaches were in the peak of their season several weeks ago, I really wanted to make a version of Pioneer Woman's Whiskey Peach BBQ chicken using actual peaches instead of peach preserves. Obviously fresh peaches aren't in season all year round, so I imagine you could use...

Although I was a little apprehensive about making a peanut butter sauce for noodles, I couldn't be more pleased with how this dish turned out in the end. Peanut butter is something I'd usually pair with chocolate, so eating it with soy sauce, took a little bit of time to wrap my head around. The gamble paid off. We added to the dish with some...

I absolutely love banana pudding, and I really wanted to combine that dessert with ice cream. Turning banana pudding into a frozen dessert with crunchy Nilla wafers quite possibly makes it even more delicious than the original dessert. This picture may not look like much, but I promise you, this is anything but basic and simple. Both Dustin...

I've really wanted to try my hand at pad thai for awhile now, but I decided to put my own twist on the dish inspired by spaghetti and meatballs. For a basic pad thai that's easy and doesn't require fish sauce (which we couldn't find), just leave off the meatballs. Or just serve the meatballs on toothpicks as an appetizer for a football party....

Dustin made a delicious Greek orzo dish with cherry tomatoes, feta, Kalamata olives, and a drizzle of olive oil. Unfortunately, he forgot to photograph it until he was already done eating and I was about 50% done. It's ok though because it really wasn't much of a recipe beyond what is previously described. However that meal was very...

The idea of an Indian lasagna jumped into my head, so I googled butter chicken lasagna and stumbled across this recipe from the Canadian Food Network. In the end it took me a lot longer to make than I originally anticipated, but it was a labor of love to create a more elaborate meal for Dustin when he arrived than I've been doing as of late....