Tired of red meat and/or poultry burgers? We were too. These tilapia burgers are a great change from your standard burger and have a ton of flavor. They are similar to the fish burgers you can buy in the frozen section at Whole Foods, but are so much tastier since they are fresh. These are super, super simple to make, modified slightly from How...

Not being in Texas anymore, I have come to appreciate how lucky we were to get such fantastic peaches for fantastic prices. HEB also had such great deals on enormous, juicy, Hill Country peaches. Here peaches are tiny and not quite as juicy (still tasty though), and cost $4 a pound. Ouch. Nonetheless, we bit the bullet and spent a ridiculous...

Summertime is officially here in Seattle! The sun is finally out, and we are hitting temperatures in the mid to high 70s on a regular basis, the perfect summer weather, especially compared to what the rest of the country has been experiencing. I guess all we had to do was wait 10 months to get it. In celebration of summer I made freshly...

Actually these are brown butter, candied maple bacon, chocolate chip cookies sweetened with maple syrup and chock full of toasted pecans, but it seemed a little wordy for the title. While the last chocolate chip cookies I made were light and fresh, these were anything but. These were sweet, nutty, salty, chocolatey, savory and just plain full of...

Dustin said if there are two words that turn him off to a dish, they are "broccoli" (or any other vegetable I'm sure) and "casserole," but let me tell ya, this is the way to eat your broccoli, or any other vegetable for that matter. I've always really enjoyed broccoli with cheese (with a low broccoli to cheese ratio, of course), and in the last...

I have grown to appreciate the finer desserts in life, but when it comes to ice cream, I still like my nostalgic, childhood favorites the best. Cake batter, chocolate chip cookie dough, and ice creams based on other desserts are the best. Even better is when two dessert flavors are combined together. Trust me I thought about making some eggless...

Seeing all of the fresh mint bounding from the our little garden boxes in our patios inspired me to use the fresh, crisp herb from our own backyard in my baking. You've seen mint chocolate chip ice cream, so why can't you have mint chocolate chip cookies? Well now you can? These cookies don't have that artificial mint flavoring in them, but...

Moussaka, where have you been all of my life? I'm not sure I had ever even heard of it until one day, Dustin ordered it while dining out in Seattle. It was the restaurant's daily special, and the description on the board sounded delish, so he ordered it. I think I ate just as much of his meal as mine. What a nice boy for sharing! I vowed that I...

As promised— more uses for leftover bechamel suace! Aren't we resourceful?! Now may I present to you, the beautiful croque madame! The croque monsieur will forever remind us of our trip to Paris where we got these delicious grilled ham and gruyere sandwiches covered with bechamel sauce from a little corner shop and devoured them in front of...

We went on a mini spree of recipes with bechamel sauce. I made a large batch of (relatively healthy) bechamel and we used it for several days to make a variety of different recipes, the first of which was this Italian-inspired crab and ricotta manicotti. I stumbled upon this recipe and kept it as a tab on my browser for days. Scratch that weeks....