Grilled chicken marinated in a blueberry sauce served upon a bed of coconut rice? Sounds a little crazy? But it totally works despite the chicken being a slightly funky-looking color. The recipe comes from How Sweet It Is, and I think represents the first time that Dustin and I haven't screwed up rice. From now on perhaps all of my rice should...

I made these muffins watching Jenn Kessy and April Ross beat Brazil to make it to the finals of the women's beach volleyball during the Olympics a few weeks back. The match was pretty intense, and the Americans were the definite underdogs, but they came back to take down the number one team! I was super into watching while I was making these...

Mint chocolate chip is Dustin's favorite ice cream flavor, so it's something I've had on my to-make list ever since we procured our very own ice cream maker. I finally got around to making it and am very glad that I did. I toyed around with using fresh mint like I did with my mint chocolate chip cookies, but after some research I discovered...

It's no secret how much we love pesto in this household, so when I saw a recipe for arugula pesto from Baked Bree, I was pretty excited to try a new variation with arugula and walnuts as the pesto base. I used the recipe I found as a guideline because I much prefer to just dump ingredients into the food processor and taste until my concoction...

I first made these cookies about a year ago before I began chronicling our recipe catalogue on wafoodie. Planning on making some sort of cookie at the last minute, I saw a stray orange in the fridge and knew I had all of the ingredients in my pantry to make these orange and vanilla cookies with flavors reminiscent of the ever popular Creamsicle...

I have been obsessed with the idea of this macaroni and cheese since the moment I saw it on Two Peas and Their Pod. First it incorporates avocado into the cheese sauce. Avocado + Cheese = Amazing! Second, it takes comfort food like mac 'n' cheese and makes it a little healthier, courtesy of the nutrition of the avocado and the fact that you are...

During Dustin's cook off challenges awhile back, he might have you believe that the judges got the best end of the deal, implying that we just sat back and did nothing. However that was far from the case, as each and every time I made sure to supply a delicious dessert (mini cannoli cups and mint chocolate chip cookies to be specific) for each...

Dustin and I have not been shy about our newfound love of grits and our obsession with blue cheese. What could be better than combining the two? That's what I thought when I saw this recipe on 20 Something Cupcakes. It sounded like the perfect brunch to me! These grits were really creamy and cheesy (no surprise there), and used a different...

Hands down cookies 'n' cream milkshakes are my default whenever I decide to splurge on a milkshake. What I really like about this milkshake is it takes the cookies and cream concept, but uses vanilla cookies instead of chocolate, which creates the ultimate vanilla milkshake. There was a partially eaten container of Golden Oreos in our cabinet...

After the success of the pineapple and chicken teriyaki quesadillas, I wanted to put pineapple on more savory dishes like this Hawaiian patty melt. You'll notice that there aren't grill marks on the pineapple because we put them in an aluminum foil pouch as to not get meat juices all over them! These originally didn't start out as patty melts,...