Best salad ever. It's sweet, filling, and you definitely get your fill of fruits and veggies for the day. It also has amazing warm and creamy goat cheese cakes resting on all of the colorful stuff. This is about the healthiest we ever get in this household. So here's what you do. Put a 6-ounce log of plain goat cheese in the freezer. While it...

How do you top brown butter chocolate chip cookies? Don't bake them and place them atop a brownie. I think I have died and gone to heaven. These may not look like anything special, but believe me they are. These chocolate chip cookie dough brownies don't need ganache or extra chocolate on top to make them taste better like so many variations...

No, not that. Get you mind out of the gutter. A Dirty Banana is a banana milkshake-like alcoholic beverage with a hint of creamy coffee flavoring that we were introduced while honeymooning at the resort in Jamaica. I don't even want to think about how many of these I drank (and how many calories I consumed in doing so). It goes down so smoothly,...

I cannot wait to make it back to Europe for a visit to Spain to eat some authentic Spanish paella. Until then, Dustin and I had to improvise and make our own, which was very simple to do thanks to this recipe from Epicurious. It was really fast and easy to come together. This version has chorizo and shrimp, but I bet it would taste great with...

It's hard to believe it was a year ago that Dustin and I had just finished up at Rice and were heading off on our trip to Europe. We had the best time visiting London, Paris, and Rome and are itching for our next trip across the Atlantic. Some of our best moments were in Paris where we picked up a baguette, a bottle of wine, and some cheese,...

Dustin and I ate pretty badly in Jamaica. We ate a lot, and we ate bad foods. When we got back home we actually decided to stick to a (mostly) vegetarian diet for a week because 1) it's healthier and 2) to experiment more with things other than meat. The exception to our vegetarian diet came when our neighbor grilled us big, juicy steaks one...

I wish I could take credit for this amazing flavor combination, but sadly I cannot. This wonderful recipe comes from How Sweet It Is, and while the thought of chocolate and cheese together might sound off putting to some (i.e. Dustin), I promise it is delicious. Dustin was a convert after we grilled these up on the panini maker. He's beginning...

While I was out of town, I had Dustin go shopping for me. One of the things I asked him to get was lemons. When I arrived home, I noticed Dustin had bought an entire bag of Meyer lemons, not realizing there was any difference. After seeing these lemons sit in the fridge, lonely and unused for quite some time, I finally searched out a recipe for...

As a kid I was never a huge fan of white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. It was chocolate chip cookie or bust for me. But as my palette has grown to love and appreciate all kinds of nuts, I've found macadamia nuts in cookies to be heavenly. I've learned when presented with a tray of cookies to eat the white chocolate macadamia because it's a...

After the success of the cheddar bay biscuits, I definitely was ready to make another cheesy biscuit to go with dinner. I decided to make parmesan biscuits, which I thought would pair nicely with the leftover pesto from the homemade gnocchi that was just sitting in the fridge and would taste awesome incorporated into a biscuit. I played with...