Dustin and I have discovered our Italian gene. We made homemade pasta with our new pasta maker (another wedding gift!) for the first time, and it came out perfectly! We were bracing ourselves for disaster after our gnocchi fail, but we needn't worry because this pasta was delicious. Unfortunately, making pasta at home is not an every night kind...

Dustin and I like our margaritas traditional, on-the-rocks. But sometimes when it's warm outside a nice frozen margarita really hits the spot. Personally I can't decide if I like mango or strawberry blended in. I guess it depends on my mood. This particular evening we made frozen mango margaritas because we had a bag of frozen mangos in the...

I think it is fate I stumbled upon a recipe for a frozen yogurt that uses avocado to create creaminess on the same day I had Greek yogurt and an extra half of an enormous avocado leftover in the fridge. My sadness at the prospect of not having anything to do with the avocado quickly turned into excitement to try out my ice cream maker (another...

Now that June has rolled around, I think this is the official start of burger grilling season— something I'm sure Dustin and I will be doing quite a bit this summer. A few weeks ago when we were having nice weather, we cooked up a fantastic patty with beef and ground pork with our neighbors. We also decided we wanted to try our hand at making...

Chocolate for breakfast! These biscuits from How Sweet It Is, sprinkled with powdered sugar, taste a lot like chocolate cookies with a fluffy, buttermilk biscuity texture. I made them into drop biscuits because I didn't have a biscuit cutter, so mine don't look nearly as pretty, but they were tasty, especially covered in delicious blackberry...

I don't know how I've never thought of this before— combining the amazingingness of cheesy enchiladas with breakfast favorites like chorizo and eggs, and you have one heck of a brunch. These are like baked breakfast tacos, and they are brilliant. They are as simple as cooking up your favorite breakfast foods, wrapping them in flour tortillas,...

This recipe for creamy goat cheese mac and cheese has been in my recipe queue for months, but I've been toying around with exactly how I wanted to make it. Do I want to follow the recipe exactly or do I want to try to healthify it? Goat cheese is actually a relatively healthy cheese and is so creamy that I knew it would make a fantastic cheese...

It baffles me how a Corona can help make a margarita be damn tasty, but somehow it works. You don't taste the beer at all (or really even the tequila for that matter), just the sugary sweet lime and cherry flavors. Traditionally, this recipe uses plain lemon-lime soda, but if you use a lemon-lime soda with cherry flavoring added you can change...

When I first came across this recipe on Epicurious, it just spoke to me. I really like the idea of making a healthy-ish meatloaf with ground turkey, and I thought the flavors of thyme would be a perfect, unique flavor to add. Plus it has mushrooms, so I was sold. This dish really doesn't look that appetizing in the pan, but it's very tasty and...

Bonnie is loving the warmer weather and hanging out on the patio. She's such a cutie and so well behaved! She just jumps in the planter that acts as a border for our patio and hangs out there while we cook and eat. As we sit and eat good home cooked food in the Seattle sun with our little puppy, it's hard to imagine life getting much better....